THERE were more than 3,700 babies born at Whiston Hospital in 2023.
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust collates all the baby-related data every month detailing how many babies are born – boys and girls – whether there are any sets of twins or triplets and how babies are delivered.
There are stats for the number of babies born in the delivery suite and in sapphire suite as well as the how many new arrivals experienced skin to skin within an hour of birth.
They also record the busiest day each month for births.
The 12 monthly facts and figures have been collated to produce yearly numbers for the trust.
There were 3,762 babies born at Whiston Hospital last year – 1,875 boys and 1,797 girls.
There were 42 sets of twins and 3,331 babies experienced skin to skin straight after being born.
Some 2,223 were vaginal births with 1,539 caesarean sections and 3,553 babies were born in the delivery suite with 165 babies born in sapphire suite.
There were 92 home births and 58 water births.
August was the busiest month in 2023 with 351 babies born - 158 girls and 193 boys - and August 1 was the busiest day with 20 new arrivals.
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Here are the busiest days, month by month, for 2023:
- January 29 and 30 – 14 births
- February 3, 10, 16 and 20 – 13 births
- March 2 – 17 births
- April 28 – 17 births
- May 23 – 15 births
- June 20 – 17 births
- July 28 – 14 births
- August 1 – 20 births
- September 21 – 16 births
- October 31 – 17 births
- November 30 – 16 births
- December 21 – 17 births
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