Babies lie on a bed in the maternity ward of the government run Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila on June 1, 2011. The ward, the busiest in the country, sees an average of 60 births a day. The Philippines' population growth rate of around 2.0 percent is above Southeast Asia's average of around 1.7 percent, with an estimated 200 babies born every hour.
Women await weigh-ins during prenatal checks at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila on June 6, 2011. The Philippines lacks a national policy on birth control and access to modern family planning methods frowned upon by the powerful Catholic Church. Those factors and others led to the country's population ballooning to more than 100 million, according to various government and private sector estimates. The Philippines is the second-most populous nation in the region after Indonesia
A woman uses her cell phone while her baby lies on top of her inside the maternity ward of the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila on June 1, 2011.
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