monthy birth rate

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Just curious what every one's monthly birth rate is at your hospitals? Our average is 300 a month. This month has been really buzy. As of a couple days ago (10 days left in the month) we all ready had 299 births. Just yesterday we had 23 babies in a 24 hour period. this is a lot for us, even for this time of year. Just wondering if others were having more babies than usual.

between 7800 and 9600 a year

:eek: :eek: :eek: Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You MUST live in Houston.

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Specializes in OB, Post Partum, Home Health.

wow, sounds like it is busy everywhere. Last 2 months we have done about 30-50 deliveries per month more than we normally do and next month looks to be about the same. It must have been 9/11, that seems to be the only explaination for the large increase in number of births EVERYWHERE!!! Has anyone seen a decline, or no change at all?

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

no appreciable change in birth rate at the two hospitals i work. i have read this birth rate increase is likely NOT 9/11 related but it will take time for the studies to bear out the truth, i suppose.

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Specializes in NICU.

Around 8,000 per year. Or so I'm told.

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Originally posted by KRVRN

Around 8,000 per year. Or so I'm told.

HOLY CRAP AGAIN!!!!!!! :eek: :eek:

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Are you at Mary Birch KRVRN? Could you pm me and tell me if you think it's a good place if so. I am thinking about relocating to San Diego and looking at Mary Birch and Scripps Mercy.

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I work at both hospitals in town one does 120 -150 a month and the other does 30 -40. Most of the time the bigger one keeps me running all day and the smaller one is pretty slow.

This make for an intersting attitude toward staffing (of which I learned this weekend)

The bigger hospital has minimum staffing rules so even on slow days their are lots of people around. The smaller one also has minmum staffing rules but they are allot slimer. When something happens on a slow day at the small one it gets very stressful becuse there isent anyone to help you.

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We do usually 250-300 monthly. I don't know where our numbers are right now, but we have definitely been busier lately. This weekend was awful...all night a census of 10-14 pts in L&D with 5 nurses. Friday and Saturday both the same way. Ugh. Our docs say it is post 9-11 also.

Interesting to see the numbers....keep them coming! :)

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We do about 200 a month. In the area ther are 8 hospital that deliver.. We are #2 in the deliveries. The last 3 months our #'s are up.

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We usually do 40-50 a month. Last month we had 60 some. This month we are in the high 40s.

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Hospital closest to me does about 450 a month. They are HUGE. I went and checked out their L&D floor when I was preggers, and it was very busy. There were 3 different nurses stations. I'm kinda glad I chose a smaller hospital. Those poor nurses looked so stressed out. :o

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We used to do around 150 a month. In the last year or two we've increased to 250 a month. I remember when we got a pizza party from the admin for doing 200 in one month. Ha, now we're always doing at least 250. We have 8 LDR's and about 6 triage beds. Last month was 266.

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