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The Question:

What is the average length of a hospital stay for a woman giving birth to a baby?

The Answer:

According to a 1996 survey by the Nation Center for Health Services, the average stay of the 3.8 million women who were hospitalized for deliveries was 2.2 days.

Here is a link to more information about births in the U.S.

—The Editors

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