New Local Moms in 2012 and Other Maternal Stats

Every day, Philadelphia-area hospitals help more women join the sorority (non-college edition) that we celebrate this Sunday on Mother's Day.

Last year saw 2,752 babies born at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood. Close behind were Paoli Hospital with 2,429 and Chester County Hospital in West Chester with 2,313, then Bryn Mawr Hospital with 1,722, all according to Main Line Health staff.

Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media had 982 deliveries in 2012, and Phoenixville Hospital had 900, according to staff there.

Delivery figures could not immediately be obtained for the Birth Center in Bryn Mawr.

The most recent delivery stats for Pennsylvania and the United States are preliminary National Center for Health Statistics figures for 2011, which show 143,148 births in the commonwealth and 3,953,593 nationwide that year.

A few other nationwide motherhood statistics to ponder for Mother's Day:

• 53 percent of females ages 15-44 were mothers in the year 2010. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
• In 2010, Utah had the highest fertility rate of any state. Rhode Island had the lowest. (Source: National Center for Health Statistics)
• The average new mother in 2010 was 25.4 years old. (Source: National Center for Health Statistics)
• About 5 million women identified themselves as stay-at-home moms in 2012. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
• About 10.3 million single mothers lived with children younger than 18 in 2012. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

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