Birth rates have increased in the Panhandle too
AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Storks carrying little bundles of joy have been working overtime. A new federal report shows that more babies were born in the U.S. in 2007 than any other year.
Health officials say there were 4.3 million births. That's more than any other year, even passing the post-World War II baby boom.
Typically in good times people reproduce, and in bad times, they don't. Many of those babies were conceived in 2006, when the economy was relatively good.
ProNews 7 spoke with BSA Hospital staff (Baptist St. Anthony's Health System), who have been keeping busy. They said in the last 10 years birth rates have nearly doubled, with an additional 600 babies born.
"2008 was even bigger than 2007. We've had an additional 120 babies in 2008, even though 2007 was large for the country. It was even larger for BSA in the year 2008," said Mary Barlow, BSA communications director.
Something else BSA is also seeing is an increase of multiple births -- so lots of twins and even triplets.
