It appears the baby recession really is over: Preliminary figures show U.S. births were up last year for the first time in seven years.
About 53,000 more babies were born in 2014 than the year before — a 1 percent increase. Births were up for nearly every racial and ethnic group, and there were improvements in several other key measures. Teen births hit another historic low and there were fewer cesarean sections and preterm deliveries.
"It looks like perhaps we're seeing the turnaround that many experts have been anticipating," said Gretchen Livingston, a birth trends expert at Pew Research Center. She was not involved in the report.
The nation has been in a baby recession since 2007 — a decline in births that experts have blamed mainly on the nation's economy. It looked like it might have ended in 2013, with preliminary figures showing the number of births rising slightly.
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