{"id":7938,"date":"2026-07-02T17:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:35:54","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-births-in-which-women-received-prenatal-care-in-the-first-trimester-of-pregnancy-by-state-united-states-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2026\/07\/02\/7938\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Births in Which Women Received Prenatal Care in the First Trimester of Pregnancy, by State \u2014 United States, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/07\/mm7525a3-F_Prenatal_Care-medium.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7939 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/07\/mm7525a3-F_Prenatal_Care-medium.gif\" alt=\"Percentage of Births in Which Women Received Prenatal Care in the First Trimester of Pregnancy, by State \u2014 United States, 2024\" width=\"635\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For births in the United States in 2024, a total of 75.5% were among women who received prenatal care beginning in the first trimester of the pregnancy. Rates ranged from 65.2% in Florida to 87.8% in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/257025?preview=1#tabs-3\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/257025?preview=1#tabs-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm\">NVSS \u2013 Birth Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reported by<\/b>: Michelle J.K. Osterman, MHS,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ibx6@cdc.gov\">ibx6@cdc.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For births in the United States in 2024, a total of 75.5% were among women who received prenatal care beginning in the first trimester of the pregnancy. Rates ranged from 65.2% in Florida to 87.8% in Vermont. Supplementary Table:\u00a0https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/257025?preview=1#tabs-3 Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data 2024.\u00a0NVSS \u2013 Birth Data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}