Get Ready CIMT's - There's a Baby Boomlet Happening!

Certified Infant Massage Teachers it’s time to get ready for all the babies! It appears that America is having another Baby Boomlet.

Reported by USA Today, a record number of babies were born in the USA in 2007, according to early federal data released Wednesday that some demographers say could signal an impending baby "boomlet." The 4,315,000 births in 2007, reported as "provisional" data by the National Center for Health Statistics, gives just a glimpse of what's ahead in the nursery.

The number of births in the United States in 2007 set a record: 4,315,000, according to preliminary statistics from National Center for Health Statistics. It's part of trend of rising births in recent years.

The last time the number was this high was in 1957, in the middle of the baby boom years; about 78 million Americans were born from 1946 to 1964. Demographers have been monitoring gradual increases in recent years; data for 2006, which won't be made final until September, show a 3% increase over 2005. That's the largest single-year increase since 1989.

"I suspect this is the beginning of a new kind of baby boom, although it's going to be nowhere near the baby boom of the 1950s or '60s," says demographer Arthur Nelson of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. "It will be sort of a boomlet."

To be considered a real boom, demographers say, the percentage increases would have to be much larger than the single-digit increases we're seeing now.

The last time there was talk of a boomlet was during the 1980s and '90s. Those babies were sometimes known as "Echo Boomers" and today are called Millennials or Generation Y.