NEW data has revealed a picture of local maternity services - including the number of babies born, popular names and what new mums thought of the support given to them.

The figures have shown 4,792 babies were delivered by the York Teaching Hospital NHS in 2013/14 - nearly 25 per cent by caesarean. The birth rate had dipped by 3.3 per cent on the year before.

The report released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) said about the York Hospital trust: “In the friends and family test in December 2014, 97 per cent of women recommended the antenatal care, 98 per cent of women recommended the birth services, 98 per cent of women recommended the postnatal care and 97 per cent of women recommended the postnatal community provision.”

The statistics also revealed the most popular names in Yorkshire and the Humber - for girls the top names were Amelia, Olivia, Emily, Ava and Evie, and for boys they were Oliver, Harry, Jack, Jacob and Muhammad.

The York Hospital trust said about 70 per cent of women breast fed their babies after birth.

In Harrogate, there were 1,902 deliveries at the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust - about 27 per cent of these were by caesarean.

At the York trust about 35 per cent of deliveries were conducted by a doctor and about 63 per cent by a midwife (for the others the person conducting the birth is not known). In Harrogate about 43 per cent of babies were delivered by a doctor and about 57 per cent by a midwife.

In the North Yorkshire and Humber area there were 592 complaints relating to nursing, midwifery and health visiting and 96.4 per cent of children were immunised for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis and hib.

Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen significantly from 4806 in 1998 to 2688 in 2013.

Nationally, there were a total of 646,904 deliveries in 2013/14, which is a 3.6 per cent decrease from the 671,255 deliveries in 2012/13.