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TABLE 13:

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Tab 13

• There were 20,771 males (51.3%) and 19,696 females (48.7%) born in 2000. The average weight for a live born baby was 3,436 grams; 3,496 grams for males and 3,373 grams for females.

• In 2000, almost nine out of ten live births (35,594) were delivered at term (from 37 to 41 weeks gestation) with normal birth weight (2,500 to 4,499 grams). These babies with "healthy" gestational ages and birth weights accounted for 88.0% of live births in 2000.

• There were 2,077 live births with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams) and 2,859 pre-term (less than 37 weeks gestation) live births in 2000. A total of 1,528 babies (3.8%) were both pre-term and low birth weight; out of this group, only one in ten (156 births) was extremely premature (less than 28 weeks gestation) and had very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams).

• Post-term (42 or more weeks of gestation) deliveries occurred in 490 births in 2000. There were 1,016 births with high birth weight (4,500 grams or more), 52 of which were also post-term.

• Out of approximately 1,000 live births in 2000:

  by birth weight	by gestational age
  51 were low birth weight (2,077 births), of which: 1 had birth weight less than 500 grams (28) 7 had birth weight from 500 to 1,499 grams (283) 923 were normal birth weight (37,362) 25 were high birth weight (1,016)	71 were pre-term (2,859 births), of which: 4 were extremely premature (less than 28 weeks) (160) 67 were moderately premature (28-36 weeks) (2,699) 917 were term (37,106) 12 were post-term (490)