Why are so many babies born around 8AM?

TL;DR - Planned C-Sections. There's also a drop on weekends for the same reason as fewer individuals plan for a delivery on the weekends as hospitals are staffed with fewer people.

When I saw the headline, I immediately thought &quot;it&#x27;s because of C-Sections.&quot; A few pretty graphs and thousands of filler words later, I discovered that — <i>SURPRISE</i> – it&#x27;s due to C-Sections!<p>Data visualization of the bleeding obvious that anyone who gave it a moment&#x27;s thought would have been able to guess.

I always wondered if you could change birth times simply by changing tee times... ;-)

Most of these planned cases are scheduled to start at 7:30, and the procedure might actually start at 7:40, and then baby comes out around 8.

There&#x27;s a similar demographic wiggle in France around May 1: very few born on the 1st more born on April 30th. Why? Everybody takes may 1 holiday and the hospital will induce to get the kid out before the holiday.<p>(My kid&#x27;s due date was 1 May so we were advised to make plans. As it happens we were in a different country when he arrived so didn&#x27;t have to see this process in action, but the predictions were accurate).

7 am shift change. Unless you are my mon who had me at 11:30 pm.

They are not. New shift shows up at 8am, and enters birth of date, as 8am, because night shift forgot it ;)