Baby Season
SEPTEMBER 15, 2007 Listen to this Story
- Baby Season
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For the last 20 years, September has been one of the most popular months to give birth and demographers don't know exactly why. With all these little ones are scheduling their arrivals at the same time,it's getting harder and harder to find hospitals willing to deliver them. The problem is especially serious in Philadelphia, where 11 maternity wards have closed in the last decade. Hospitals still in the baby business are feeling the pressure. Reporter Joel Rose visited one of those maternity wards to see what it's like.
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