Mothers medical or health characteristics U.S. 2020

This statistic shows the rate of selected medical or health characteristics experienced by mothers during pregnancy/births in the United States in 2020. In that year, 57.2 percent of all delivering mothers were overweight or obese.

Selected medical or health characteristics experienced by mothers during pregnancies/births in the United States in 2020

Characteristic	Percentage of all births
Infant was being breastfed at discharge**	83.5%
Overweight or obese (BMI of 25.0 or over)	57.2%
Cesarean delivery	31.8%
CNM delivery*	10.3%
Gestational diabetes	7.8%
Smoked during pregnancy	5.5%
Pregnancy resulted from infertility treatment	2%
Home births	1.3%
Prepregnancy diabetes	1.1%

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

* Births delivered by certified nurse midwives.
** Excludes data for California, which did not report infant was being breastfed at discharge. Also excludes Michigan, for which item wording for Michigan is not consistent with national standard.

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