• RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Looks off. Isn’t it more the days of conception rather birthday? It’s rather lucky that they are so many babies on feb14, exactly on Valentine days

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      4 months ago

      peak just before and after Christmas would indicate that it’s day of birth, since hospitals work with reduced capacity on these days and induced births or c-sections will not happen then unless it’s an emergency.

      why so many births are on 14.02. is a mystery to me.

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        4 months ago

        Best guess seems to be choice of day to induce labor within a given window. A lot of people, if given a window of Feb 7th through 21st or something, will choose the 14th for Valentine’s Day