birth rates

Alabama health leaders have announced the state’s infant mortality rate has reached a historic low. This comes as the national infant mortality rate has risen for the first time in two decades. Infant mortality rate is the number of deaths per 1,000 infant births in the state.

An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 28 miles northwest of Birmingham, gave birth to two girls on Wednesday and Thursday after a combined 20 hours of labor.

Alabama is one of the worst states to have a baby. That’s according to the financial website WalletHub.

The Alabama Department of Public Health has announced the state's teen birth rate has reached a historic low. Officials say the teen birth rate in 2011…