Babies & Kids Blog

Here is some encouraging and exciting news! Babies born today will quite possibly live to be 100 on average. Today, more and more people are celebrating their 100th birthdays, but it’s still fairly uncommon.

“Most babies born in the United States and Western Europe today are expected to live to 100 if we continue on the same trend of increased life expectancy, according to a study published in the journal Lancet. “Very long lives are not the distant privilege of remote future generations—very long lives are the probable destiny of most people alive now,” wrote the study authors, who are from the Danish Aging Research Center.

According to their analysis of data from more than 30 developed countries, death rates are dropping among people over 80. And three quarters of babies born in these nations over the past decade can expect to live to 75.” (read more)

So what does this mean for you? As parents, we should strive to improve our health and lifestyle so we can live as long as possible to enjoy our children as long as we can.

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I’m sure most of you have already seen Number One & Number Two around the web, but I hadn’t seen the babies in Number 3 until today. I can only imagine what it would be like to have so many babies at once!