Table 2
Measures of children's health at birth, by maternal age group

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  Overall Maternal Age Group
Teenaged (younger than 20) Young (20 to 24) Reference (25 to 29) Middle (30 to 34) Older (35 or older)
1. Measured only for children who received specialized care at birth.
Note: Comparisons by maternal age are made against children of reference mothers.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, "The Children of Older First-time Mothers in Canada: Their Health and Development", Children and Youth Research Paper Series, Catalogue number 89-599-M.
Child required special care at birth, % (n=3,279) 20.5 22.8 19.5 18.6 20.9 25.9
Type of care received (n=644)1
Intensive care, % 39.4 42.7 39.9 38.8 38.5 39.7
Oxygen/ventilation, % 19.8 23.5 17.5 22.4 20.6 13.9
Transferred to special hospital, % 6.2 x 6.2 4.1 8.9 8.6
Other, % 47.6 52.8 54.3 45.0 39.4 54.4
Days in specialized care (n=642)
Mean (standard error) 7.3 (0.7) 7.1E (1.4) 6.5E (1.1) 6.3 (1.0) 8.1E (1.5) 9.7E (2.4)
Median (standard error) 2.0 (0.2) F 1.3E (0.4) 1.8 (0.3) 2.1E (0.5) 2.5E (0.6)