Sentences with phrase «birth than singleton»

«Twin pregnancies are at substantially higher risk of early preterm birth than singleton pregnancies and this risk is inversely related to sonographically measured cervical length at 20 - 24 weeks» gestation,» explained lead investigator Kypros H Nicolaides, MD, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London.

Not exact matches

It's also worthy to note that girls are more likely to survive very early premature birth, as are babies born in singleton rather than multiple pregnancies.

I have twin grandsons and they had since birth a different life than singletons as they always had each other and they are not identical.

Women who started birth at home were on average older, of a lower socioeconomic status and higher educational achievement, and less likely to be African - American or Hispanic than women having full gestation, vertex, singleton hospital births in the United States in 2000.

For example, premature birth and low birth weight are more common among twins than singletons (Bowen, 1999).

Cerebral palsy is more common among multiple births than single births, being 2.3 per 1,000 survivors in singletons, 13 in twins, and 45 in triplets in North West England.

While there is strong evidence about the risks of not breastfeeding, rates of breastfeeding in women who have given birth to more than one infant are lower than with singleton births.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?

The person you choose to attend your birth is going to matter a lot more than it would for a singleton birth.

Learn about pumping your milk because you are at higher risk of having to spend a few days separated from your babies than if you were having a singleton birth.

Preterm birth is more likely with twins than singletons, which may result in some time in the NICU.

Also, I had already had four beautiful, vaginal singleton births; births which I had fought through hours of excruciating pain to accomplish, in which I had proven doctors wrong who said it was impossible for a woman my size to have a baby any bigger than my first baby's 7 lb.

This new chapter includes advice for moms - to - be expecting twins, triples or quads, «from how much more you'll need to eat, to how many more symptoms you're likely to have, to the extra tests and risks involved in baking more than one bun at a time, and how labor and delivery might differ from a singleton birth,» she said.

David N. Figlio, Ph.D., of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and coauthors analyzed Florida birth certificates linked to Florida public school records for more than 1.4 million singleton births with 37 to 41 weeks of gestation.

The rates of ART singletons born small for gestational age (SGA) more than halved between 1988 - 1992 and 2003 - 2007, falling from 7.6 % to 3.2 %, while the rates of SGA births among ART twins fell from 17 % to 14 %.