Number of Teenage Mothers Increasing

Based on the result of the tabulation from the Decentralized Vital Statistics System (DVSS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority, teenage mothers in Mountain Province reached 98 in the 3rd quarter of 2022. This is 81.48 percent higher than the recorded number of teenage mothers in the same quarter of 2021. In the 3rd quarter of 2020, the figure is at 58.

About Four in Every Ten Teenage Mothers are Listed in Bauko

By municipality, Bauko recorded the highest number of teenage moms in the 3rd quarter of 2022. This comprises 41.84 percent of all the registered teenage moms in the province. This is followed by Paracelis at 32 teenage moms. The registered births in these 2 municipalities comprises 74.49 percent of the total teenage mothers listed in the province. In the same quarter of 2021, Paracelis is the municipality with the highest number of teenage mothers.

Barlig and Sabangan are the municipalities with no reported teenage mothers for the 3rd quarter of this year.

13-Year-Old Girl- Youngest Mother

The youngest age of a mother that gave birth in the 3rd quarter of 2022 is 13 years old. In the same quarter last year, the youngest age of a mother that gave birth is 14 years old.

According to birth order, the youngest mother who already gave birth to her 2nd child is 16 years old; for her 3rd child is 18 years old; for her 4th child is 20 years old while the youngest who already bore her 5th child is 20 years old.

In the same quarter of 2021, the youngest mother who bore her 2nd child is 17 years old while the youngest to give birth for her 4th child is 19 years old.

Males Slightly Outnumbered Females in Terms of Registered Births

According to sex, it is noted that there are more males that were born in Mountain Province in the 3rd quarter of 2022 at 547 births. This is 7.47 percent higher than the female births at 509.

The difference of male births to their female counterparts in 5 municipalities contributed to the higher number of male births in the province. Bauko registered 29 more males than females while Bauko has 13 more boys than girls.

It is also observed that Paracelis posted the highest number of female difference as it registered 14 more female than male births while Tadian has 4 more girls than boys. Other municipalities have minimal difference for both sexes.

About Eight in Every Ten Births are Registered Timely

Of the 1,056 registered births in the province in the 3rd quarter of 2022, 816 births or 77.27 percent are registered timely. Bauko having the highest number of births recorded 480 timely registered births while all births in Sabangan are late registrations. Four municipalities- Natonin, Paracelis, Sadanga and Tadian have more late than timely registrations.

Paracelis on the other hand has the highest number of late registrations for birth. Of the 206 births registered in this municipality, 121 births are late registrations. This is far higher compared to the births registered late in the different municipalities in the province.

According to sex, 78.79 percent of the male births are registered timely while 75.64 percent of the female births are also registered timely.

About Four in Every Ten Births in the Province are Illegitimate

Of the 1,056 births in the province in the 3rd quarter of 2022, 435 births or 41.19 percent are illegitimate. This means that about 4 in every 10 babies were born out of wedlock.

It is also noted that Natonin Paracelis, and Tadian registered more illegitimate than legitimate babies. Of the total births in Natonin, 66.67 percent are illegitimate; 55.34 percent of all babies in Paracelis are born to unmarried parents while 68.75 percent of all babies born in the 3rd quarter of 2022 in Tadian are illegitimate.

Categorizing by sex, illegitimate births is higher among female than male babies. 41.45 percent of the female births registered in the 2nd quarter are illegitimate. In comparison, 40.95 percent of all male births are also born to unmarried parents. All female births registered in the quarter in Sabangan are illegitimate while all female births in Sadanga are legitimate.

About Three in Every Ten Births are First Born

According to birth order, 28.98 percent are first born children. This translates to about three in every ten births in the province in the 3rd quarter this year are first born. In addition, 26.14 percent are 2nd born and 19.79 percent are third born babies.

It is also observed that there is one who gave birth to her 15th child and this is recorded in the municipality of Sadanga.

In addition, there is a 32-year-old lady who gave birth to her 10th child; a 38-year-old woman who bore her 12th child; and another 38-year-old woman who gave birth to her 13th child.

About Seven in Every Ten Births in the Province Are Attended by a Physician

Of the total number of births registered in the province, 72.13 percent are attended by physicians; 2.75 percent are attended by midwives and 1.52 percent are attended by nurses. The remaining percentage is either attended by hilot/ unlicensed midwives and others.

About Three in Every Ten Mothers Who Gave Birth are 25 to 29 Years Old

Of the total women who gave birth in the 3rd quarter of 2022, 26.23 percent are under the age group 25 to 29 years old. This is followed by age group 20 to 24 years old at 21.88 percent and age group 30 to 44 years old at 20.55 percent.

According to single year, the highest number of mothers who gave birth this quarter are those aged 25 years old at 65 births. This means that about 6 in every 100 women who gave birth this quarter are aged 25 years old.

The oldest mother who bore a child this quarter is 46 years old.

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Live Birth- the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether the umbilical cord has been cut off or the placenta is still attached.

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