The study found that eighty-five percent of women who waited less than six months to get pregnant had live births.

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He says C-section births have been linked to an increased risk of allergic reactions, diabetes and leukemia later in life.

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The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

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Doctor Ndiaye says babies who weigh less than two kilos get special attention from midwives who assist with the births.

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When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

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Chris Howson says many of the causes of preterm births are related to poverty and weak health-care systems.

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America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says caesarean births rose to nearly thirty-two percent of all births in two thousand seven.

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Doctor Fleischman says there is concern especially about rising numbers of what are known as late preterm births.

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This is largely the result of more births in older women and more use of fertility treatments.

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That year, about two hundred fifty mothers died for every one hundred thousand live births worldwide.

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Fertility treatments can produce multiple births, which increases the risk that the babies will arrive early.

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Chris Howson says premature births must be reduced if that goal is to be met.

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The rise of these births may be linked to increased use of drugs to start or speed up labor and more births by Cesarean section.

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In nineteen ninety, there were two hundred twenty-five deaths for every one thousand live births.

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They did not observe births and deaths unless they were involved in medical work.

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By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.

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The rate is one in every one thousand two hundred births at age twenty-five.

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In other births, emotional or mental tension increases slowly as the woman's labor progresses.

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Premature or preterm births are defined as births at less than thirty-seven weeks.

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And they had fewer preterm births and fewer babies with low birth weight.

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More than eighty-five percent of preterm births happen in Africa and Asia.

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At thirty-five it rises to one in three hundred fifty births.

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Preterm births are a problem not just in the developing world.

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Yet experts say many early births can be prevented.

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Most preterm births take place in Africa and Asia.

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The next month, they may be assisting at births.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Births by C-section are increasing worldwide.

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