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Day 13 news response

Madelyn Perkovich

Today i read about the birth pattern of humans. Babies may be born at extremely spontaneous times, but there is some kind of pattern for sure. The most common time to be born is 8:00 am, and the least common is 3:09 am. These patterns come in sharp spikes, and can be caused by a number of things, some of which being C sections and induced labor. When looked into, it was discovered that each delivery method actually had a distinct pattern, causing the spikes.

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