Mothers medical or health characteristics U.S. 2022 | Statista

In 2022, around 59 percent of all delivering mothers in the United States were overweight or obese. This statistic shows the rate of selected medical or health characteristics experienced by mothers during pregnancy/births in the United States in 2022.

Selected medical or health characteristics experienced by mothers during pregnancies/births in the United States in 2022

Characteristic	Percentage of all births
Infant was being breastfed at discharge**	85.2%
Overweight or obese (BMI of 25.0 or over)	59.1%
Cesarean delivery	32.1%
CNM delivery*	10.9%
Gestational diabetes	8.1%
Smoked during pregnancy	3.7%
Pregnancy resulted from infertility treatment	2.4%
Home births	1.5%
Prepregnancy diabetes	1.2%

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

North America, United States

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

* Births delivered by certified nurse midwives.
** Excludes data for California, which did not report infant was being breastfed at discharge.

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