Australia's mothers and babies 2014—in brief

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Release Date: 25 Nov 2016

Topic: Mothers & babies

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016. Australia's mothers and babies 2014—in brief. Cat. no. PER 87. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australia’s mothers and babies 2014—in brief presents key statistics and trends on pregnancy and childbirth of mothers, and the characteristics and outcomes of their babies. This publication is designed to accompany the perinatal data visualisations.

ISSN: 2205-5134 (PDF) 1321-8336 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-030-2
Cat. no: PER 87
Pages: 80

Findings from this report:

1 in 7 babies were admitted to a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit in 2014
Almost 308,000 women gave birth to more than 312,500 babies in 2014
52% of mothers over 40 gave birth by caesarean section, 3 times as high as teenage mothers (18%)
11.8% of babies with Indigenous mothers were low birthweight, twice as high as babies of non-Indigenous mothers (6.2%)

Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- AIHW information on mothers and babies
- The National Perinatal Data Collection
Body section
- 1 At a glance
  - Mothers at a glance
  - Babies at a glance
- 2 Mothers
  - Antenatal care
  - Smoking during pregnancy
  - Maternal health
  - Place of birth
  - Onset of labour
  - Method of birth
- 3 Babies
  - Gestational age
  - Birthweight
  - Low birthweight
  - Small for gestational age
  - Baby presentation and method of birth
  - Apgar scores
  - Resuscitation
  - Hospital births and length of stay
  - Admission to special care nurseries and neonatal intensive care units
  - Perinatal deaths
- 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and their babies
  - Indigenous mothers
  - Babies of Indigenous mothers
End matter
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Appendixes (385KB PDF)
  - Appendix A: Perinatal national minimum data set items
  - Appendix B: State and territory perinatal data collections
  - Appendix C: Data quality, methods and interpretation

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