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You are here: Home Reports & data Mothers & babies Australia's mothers and babies Focus population groups
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Australia's mothers and babies

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Last updated: 29 Jun 2023
Topic: Mothers & babies
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2023) Australia's mothers and babies, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 September 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2023). Australia's mothers and babies. Retrieved from https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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Australia's mothers and babies. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 29 June 2023, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's mothers and babies [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023 [cited 2023 Sep. 28]. Available from: https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2023, Australia's mothers and babies, viewed 28 September 2023, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies

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  • Contents

    • About
    • Summary
    • Demographics of mothers and babies
      • Key statistics and trends
      • Maternal age
      • Geography
      • Maternal country of birth
    • Antenatal period
      • Antenatal care
      • Smoking during pregnancy
      • Alcohol consumption during pregnancy
      • Maternal body mass index
      • Maternal medical conditions
    • Labour and birth
      • Place of birth
      • Onset of labour
      • Method of birth
      • Analgesia
      • Anaesthesia
      • Presentation
      • Perineal status
      • Maternal length of stay in hospital
    • Baby outcomes
      • Gestational age
      • Birthweight
      • Birthweight adjusted for gestational age
      • Apgar score at 5 minutes
      • Active resuscitation method
      • Admission to a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit
      • Baby length of stay in hospital
      • Preliminary perinatal deaths
    • Focus population groups
      • First Nations mothers and babies
      • Mothers aged under 20 and their babies
      • Mothers aged 35 and over and their babies
      • Mothers who have multiple births and their babies
    • Stillbirths and neonatal deaths
    • Maternal deaths
    • Breastfeeding
    • Technical notes
      • Terminology
      • Data sources
      • Perinatal National Minimum Data Set items
      • State and territory perinatal data collections
      • Data timeliness
      • Data quality and availability
      • Definitions
      • Methods
      • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Data
  • Related material
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Focus population groups

This section explores key statistics for specific population groups – First Nations mothers and babies, mothers aged under 20 and their babies, mothers aged 35 and over and their babies, and mothers who have multiple births and their babies. It uses the data visualisations and accompanying text to tell the story of each group, so no comparison is made with other populations.

First Nations mothers and babies

First Nations status of the mother, babies born to First Nations mothers and First Nations status of the baby

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Mothers aged under 20 and their babies

Mothers who were aged under 20 at the time of birth, and their babies

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Mothers aged 35 and over and their babies

Mothers who were aged 35 and over at the time of birth, and their babies

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Mothers who have multiple births and their babies

Multiple births are births of more than one baby from a single pregnancy, and include twins, triplets and higher order multiples

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