After a three-year decline, Hall County births are starting to inch back up, according to the number of deliveries recorded at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.The medical center reported an additional 100 deliveries in fiscal year 2012 than in 2011, an increase of 2.8 percent.According to the Department of Public Health, births reached a high point in 2007 at 3,226 in Hall County, but have fallen since then, with 2,605 births in 2010, the most recent data available.“It’s definitely coming back up. Our delivery volume dropped in ’09, ’10 and ’11,” Director of Women and Children’s Services Sara Dyer said. “I think a lot of that was probably due to the Hispanic population relocating, but I also think that it was due to just an overall drop in U.S. births.”The hospital keeps a record of the number of deliveries it sees in a year, but does not include details such as where the mother resides, her age, race or ethnicity.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that births in the nation fell for the fourth year in a row, a trend experts tend to blame on the economy.“For couples starting families, I would be inclined to believe that the uncertain economy has played a role in couples delaying their decision to have children,” said Dave Palmer, public information officer for District 2 Public Health.The national decline in 2011 was just 1 percent — not as sharp a fall-off as the 2 to 3 percent drop seen in recent years.“It may be that the effect of the recession is slowly coming to an end,” said Carl Haub, a senior demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization.The economy officially was in a recession from December 2007 until June 2009.