Dutch Babies Less Likely to Be Born on Weekends
By: Janene Pieters Women in the Netherlands are more likely to give birth during the week than on the weekend, according to Statistics Netherlands’ analysis of the birth and mortality patterns in the country last year. The stats office partly attributes this to the fact that more women give birth in hospitals – less than a quarter of last year’s births happened at home. Remarkably, there are also fewer deaths in the Netherlands over the weekends than on weekdays. In 2016 only 7 percent of the deaths happened on a Sunday and there is a peak of deaths on Fridays. It is not clear why. According to Statistics Netherlands, Dutch demographics show week- and season patterns. Friday, July 8th, and Friday, September 16th were the days on which the most babies were born last year, 610 and 599 respectively. Over the weekends, significantly fewer babies were…
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Whoopi Goldberg’s Natural Menstrual Cramp Solution
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Maximising a Woman’s Fertile Period
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