If you’re having babies in your early 30s, you’re part of a trend among child-bearing women.
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that women in their early 30s, in a first, have surpassed younger mothers when it comes to having children.
While the birth rate for the 12 months ending in the last quarter of 2016 for women ages 25 to 29 came out to 102 per 1,000 , it was 103 per 1,000 for women ages 30 to 34. This is the first time women in their late 20s haven’t had the highest birth rates, reports the Associated Press — though the average age for a woman to have her first child is 28.
According to experts, a declining teen birth rate and more women waiting to have children explain the change.
“We always talk about peer pressure as a negative, but it can be a force for good,” Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy told the Associated Press.
Vocativ points out that President Donald Trump’s election and the potential changes to health coverage under the American Health Care Act that recently passed the House are reasons that certain women are choosing to wait to get pregnant,
Overall, the birth rate ticked down in 2016, to 62 births out of 1,000 women between 15 and 44 years old.
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