In 2000, 83.2 percent of women who had a baby began their prenatal care in the first trimester (early prenatal care), short of the Healthy People 2010 objective of 90 percent set by the US Department of Health and Human Services.  An additional 13.0 percent of mothers started prenatal care in the second trimester of pregnancy and 2.7 percent of babies were born to women who started prenatal care in the third trimester (late prenatal care).  More than 1 percent of mothers received no prenatal care.  This reflects a total of 152,698 babies born in 2000 to women who either started prenatal care late or received no prenatal care at all.