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Quick Facts: Perinatal Overview

PeriStats compiles maternal and infant health data from multiple sources. These data are often referred to as perinatal data. The term "perinatal" can be used in a generic or a very specific way. It means around (peri-) the time of birth (-natal), so it can be used to refer to the entire or parts of the period around conception and through the first year of life.

In an average week in Virginia:


• 1,970 babies are born.
 
• 185 babies are born preterm.
 
• 156 babies are born low birthweight.
 
• 11 babies die before reaching their first birthday.
 
• In Virginia in 2018, 96.5% of all live births were singleton births and 3.5% were multiple births.
 
• Every 4 1/2 minutes a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States.
 
• In 2013, birth defects accounted for about 1 in 5 infant deaths in Virginia.
 
• In Virginia in 2018, 32.4% of live births were cesarean deliveries and 67.6% were vaginal deliveries.
 
• In 2019, about 1 in 19 infants (5.3% of live births) was born to a woman receiving late or no prenatal care in Virginia.
 
• In 2005, the annual societal economic cost (medical, educational, and lost productivity) associated with preterm birth in the United States was at least $26.2 billion.
 
• In the United States, screening for the 31 core newborn screening conditions is not universally required by rule or law and fully implemented in any state.
 
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Source

  • National Center for Health Statistics, final natality data.
  • National Center for Health Statistics, period linked birth/infant death data.
  • Annual number of birth defects based on estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center.
  • Institute of Medicine. 2007. Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Published and unpublished analyses.
  • Retrieved March 03, 2021, from www.marchofdimes.org/peristats.