So on Monday, Prematurity Awareness Day, the March of doms released its 2025 scorecard on the state of maternal health and the United states received a D plus preterm birth grade for the fourth consecutive year in a row. In 2024, 10.4% of babies were born preterm, with the worst rate in the southern region of the United States. That is nearly 380,000 babies who were born prematurely in 2024, or 1 in 10. Racial disparities worsened, with preterm birth rates among babies born to black women climbing to 14.7%, now nearly 1.5 times higher than the rate for babies overall. (02:07–02:16)
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