When I was
single and friends were having
babies, I would hop on Amazon and find a quick item, never really thinking about
registries, let alone walking in to a store full of
baby gear.
The authors, led by Dr. Martina Persson from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, reached these conclusions by using information from the Swedish medical birth
registry (a database including nearly all the births occurring in Sweden since 1973) for all births (of
single babies) that took place between 1992 to 2010 — comprising over 1.7 million births.