Britain is in the grip of a baby boom. Why?

There is a veritable multiple birth of stories about childbirth and motherhood in the British press today.

The Telegraph's front page says we are experiencing something of a baby boom - fertility rates are touching a 25-year high - and reports that the first official analysis of the impact of immigration on fertility concludes that immigrant mothers are fuelling it.

The Mail, which also reports the story, adds that more women are having children in their 30s after first pursuing a career. There is one birth for every ten women in the 30 -34 age group - more than for any other range recorded by the Office for National Statistics.

The Times says working mothers are happier, no matter how many hours they have to spend in the office. The Institute for Social and Economic Research, at the University of Essex, found that even mothers working for longer than 45 hours a week enjoy much higher levels of "life satisfaction".

"Babies born through a planned caesarean section are up to four times more likely to suffer from breathing problems in the first days of life," says the Guardian, which reports the findings of a study published by the British Medical Journal.

The story is also picked up by the Times, which says: "Although there may can be valid medical reasons for having a caesarean, experts have called for measures to reduce the number of women undergoing the operation when they could normally deliver."

This is an edited extract from the Wrap, our daily digest of the papers.