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Maternal age and weight and delivery-room practices are factors.

An ex-inmate in a Nevada prison says that prison guards put her in shackles while she gave birth.

Experts say a weak economy is to blame.

The US birth rate fell to a record low last year, driven by a decline in the number of babies born to immigrant women.

A Belarussian nurse attends to newborn infants in the maternity ward of a hospital in Minsk, Belarus on Mar. 8, 2010.

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