Random Pregnancy Facts
Posted by Laurie
According to a Time Magazine article from 1945, the longest pregnancy was 12 months, 10 days. If you have a hard time believing that, perhaps some of these other random pregnancy facts might interest you.
4.25 million babies are born in the United States each year.
In 1970, the average age for a first-time mother was about 21.
In 2005, the average age for a first-time mother was about 25.2.
In 2006, it dropped to 25.
There were 5.1 million stay-at-home moms in 2009, down from 5.3 million in 2008.
There were 158,000 stay-at-home dads in 2009, up from 140,000 in 2008.
Women with full-time jobs earned salaries equal to 77.9 percent of what men earned in 2009, up from 77.5 percent in 2007 and about 64 percent in 2000.
22.5% of births were induced in 2006.
31.1% of births were cesarean sections in 2006
The c-section rate has increased 50% over the last decade.
One in eight babies are born premature in the United States each year.
Your first pregnancy is usually longer than subsequent ones.
During pregnancy, the average woman’s uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.
During pregnancy a woman’s heart pumps 30 to 50% more blood than it did pre-pregnancy.
Male seahorses, pipefish, weedy and leafy sea dragons can get pregnant.
Nearly all babies are born with blue or blue-gray eyes.
Babies use about 3,000 diapers per year.
Here are more pregnancy facts from the CDC, facts about c-section rates, a summary of census data on stay-at-home parents, and more about age of first pregnancy.
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