Childbirth and Birth: 1989-2013

This table contains information on the following topics: * Home births and hospital births. * The height and weight of children at birth * Breast-feeding * Maternity care * Consultation office The data comes from the Health Survey. The questions about the place of childbirth and maternity care were asked to women aged 16 to 50 who gave birth to one or more children in the two years preceding the survey. Information has been collected on children aged 0 to 5 about their height and weight at birth and whether they have been to the consultation office. Information about breast-feeding has been collected about children from half to 5 years old. Data available from 1989/1991 for maternity care and consultation office figures from 2001/2003 Status of the figures: The data is final. Changes as of 6 September 2018: The table explanatory note was updated with the links to relevant tables. When are new figures coming? No longer applicable. Because the health survey no longer asks for breastfeeding, the table has been discontinued. In 2017, a new table on birth characteristics and a visit to the consultation office was published.