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While an ageing population and lower birth rates are limiting the supply of younger workers, higher participation rates among older employees and migration have helped to offset this decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Closely spaced pregnancies, premature births and low birth weight can follow, while young mothers struggle to breastfeed and care for their children.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Her mother, Afiba, was an enslaved kitchen maid possibly from Ghana or Ivory Coast, who gave birth to a baby girl in 1756 at Fort Nassau, Berbice’s headquarters run by the Society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Pre-reading skills, for example, are easier to develop in the language a child has been honing since birth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Hey, you know Lekuton’s wife has given birth to a baby boy,” they said.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

The number of births have been falling in Scotland over the last 20 years, as have the number of babies who need intensive care, according to the available NHS data.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

For Kim and Sean Randall, who have a teenager and an 11-month-old, the progress of technology is one of the biggest changes they have noticed in the 15 years between the births of their children.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Postpartum psychosis is a medical emergency that affects about one to two women in every 1,000 births, according to Sally Wilson, national training coordinator at the UK-based charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The relatively affluent ward four now has the most births.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Deaths, births, marriages—why, just the other day he’d heard that Nancy Clutter’s boy friend, young Bobby Rupp, had gone and got married.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

It led to divorce and birthed the series, which aimed to give a glimpse of Utah’s Mormon mom influencers navigating the hyper-conservative religious expectations they live by or grew up in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

More bluntly, for many outside the tech world, these companies will be birthed as the bad guys, a remarkable swing from the early 2010s when founders were venerated as cultural heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

But as Caulfield noted, the wellness movement has undergone a major cultural change in the past half-decade that has made it almost unrecognizable from the movement that birthed MAHA.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

It also created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network that ultimately birthed the internet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

I wait for him to absolve me of not remembering a mother who birthed me, a grandmother who saved me, friends who rebelled with me, and a suffocating fear I can’t name.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Zika can spread from a birthing parent to their child in the womb and cause congenital disabilities, which notoriously led to panic after an outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Like the spine, the human pelvis must balance two competing demands: efficient bipedal walking and birthing large-brained infants.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

This included an empty can of energy drink left in the middle of the floor of a clean delivery room - as well as butter "smeared around the top of a birthing pool".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

To reduce the screwworm risk on the ranch he co-owns and manages, Diebel plans to push the birthing season for his calves to colder months when the flies are less active.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

In the next drawer was a stack of baby clothes, ironed and done up nice, like for the next birthing.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns