11.   He said it was the first birth of septuplets on the U.S. East Coast.

12.   He earned his first quarterfinal birth of the year.

13.   In the first known birth of its kind, a woman in California has had a baby using sperm that had been extracted from her dead husband.

14.   She was the first birth of a child conceived by bringing sperm and egg together in a laboratory.

15.   The rate for second births dropped while that for first births nudged upward.

16.   They found that long-lived married women tended to have later first births and fewer children than other women.

17.   He said the first birth was due in May.