title: When are babies born: morning, noon, or night? Birth certificate data for 2013.
abstract: The highest percentages of births occurred during the morning and midday hours. Births on Saturday and Sunday were more likely to occur in the late evening and early morning hours than births Monday through Friday. Compared with induced vaginal deliveries and noninduced vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries were the least likely to occur during the evening and early morning. Noninduced vaginal births were more likely than cesarean and induced vaginal births to occur in the early morning. Cesarean deliveries with no trial of labor were much more concentrated during the day than were cesarean deliveries with a trial of labor. Births delivered in hospitals and all births show similar time-of-day patterns.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Mathews
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Curtin
mesh_terms: D001719:Birth Certificates; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007751:Labor, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D036801:Parturition; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology