Coupon Sites & Baby Facts

My friend June (who is also a new reader to the blog - 'hey june!') hooked me up with some great, Canadian coupon sites. Since its always nice to save money, I'm sharing the sites with you all:

-www.flyerland.ca

-www.gocoupons.ca

-www.save.ca

-www.pampers.ca (to collect points & sign up for coupons)

-www.redflagdeals.com

-www.smartcanucks.ca

I also got the following website from Readers Digest I think: http://www.mommysavers.com/

Now for some fun baby facts that I got emailed today:

-The most popular day for babies to make their entrance? It's now Wednesday. (This is the first year since at least 1990 that Tuesday wasn't the biggest birth day.)

-In 2006, August hosted the most U.S. baby births.

-In 1970, the average age for a first-time mother was about 21. In 2005, the average age of first-time moms when they gave birth was 25

-The number of babies born to unmarried women is at an all-time high, totaling more than 1.6 million and rising almost 8 percent in 2006. This total is 20 percent higher than in 2002, when an upswing began. And it's 7 percent higher than 2005. The percentage of all births to unmarried women in 2006 was 38.5 percent, an increase from 36.9 percent in 2005.

-To put the results of this trend in perspective, here are the numbers: There are 9.8 million single moms living with kids under 18 in the United States, up from 3.4 million in 1970.

-In 1980, four in ten out-of-wedlock births were to teens, but in 2006, just over 2 in 10 were to teens.

-First-time moms' work status during and after pregnancy, 2001 to 2003:

Percentage who worked during the month before they gave birth: 80 percent. By contrast, between 1961 and 1965, 35 percent of first-time moms worked during the last month of pregnancy.

Percentage who were working by the sixth month after they gave birth: 55 percent. By contrast, in the early 1960s, the percentage for first-timers was 14 percent.

-The number of cesarean deliveries in 2006 rose to 31.1 percent of all births, a 3 percent rise from 2005 and another record high. The c-section rate has climbed 50 percent in the United States over the last decade.

-Sixteen percent of preterm and 24 percent of term and higher deliveries were induced in 2006.

-Number of births in 2006 that were the mother’s eighth or more: 18,674