Why September is a busy month for births

Tuesday 13th September 2011, 3:57PM BST.

The month of September is traditionally a baby boom period, with recent figures predicting 20 per cent more births this month.

Fifty years ago, at the start of the baby boom of the 1960s, just 6 per cent of mums were not married when they gave birth, compared to nearly half (47 per cent) today.

And mothers were, on average, two years younger (27.4 years) than today’s mothers.

Ruth Griffiths from The Severn’s news desk spoke to Dorothy McGee and Sarah Boyle from Mother Care.

They told us a little bit more about parental habits in Shropshire

View more: The Severn news.

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Dr Pepper

September 15, 2011 at 13:59

It’s obvious why there’s a baby boom in September. It’s freezing cold in January and the television schedule is phenomenally dire.

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September Baby

September 16, 2011 at 08:21

Dr Pepper, I hope that you do not specialise in maternity as a baby conceived in January and going full term would not be born until October!

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