"Multiple births" refer to the situation when a woman gives birth to more than one baby at the same time, such as twins, triplets or more.
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Competition among fertility clinics does not appear to increase rates
of multiple births from fertility treatment by promoting more aggressive embryo transfer decisions.
The increase
in multiple births means that discounts and special offers are harder to come by.
The data from the 1960s, meanwhile, provided a statistical baseline for natural
multiple birth rates without medical intervention that the team also used in their estimates.
Double and triple carriers are also becoming popular due to
multiple births on the rise in the recent times.
She's also a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator and
multiple birth parenting consultant with 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education.
Provide home visits for patients with specialized care needs, such
as multiple births, postpartum depression risk, diabetes, breastfeeding and others.
The data from the 1960s, meanwhile, provided a statistical baseline for
natural multiple birth rates without medical intervention that the team also used in their estimates.
With today's technology and the ability of the medical profession to sustain life, babies in high
order multiple births have a better chance than ever at survival.
As with many of the other families who post
multiples birth stories and pictures, you can follow their lives as they grow up.
Our lawyers have successfully handled
multiple birth injury cases and understand the devastating impact such injuries can have on our clients and their families.
And even
though multiple births have increased because of infertility treatments, everyone's still amazed when they see them.
There are also festivals that
celebrate multiple births where women sometimes share their pregnancy stories and the joys and challenges of raising multiples.
Yes, too small for her to move around but yet she was forced to
give multiple births in that crate also.
Our attorneys have successfully
settled multiple birth injury cases, with settlements in the millions of dollars.
I had read about this phenomenon
in multiple birth experiences and I knew it could happen to me.
Mothers of multiples can produce sufficient breast milk, especially if given appropriate help and support (
Multiple Births Foundation 2011).
The Twins &
Multiple Births Association (TAMBA) has a Primary and Secondary Schools Admissions and Appeals pack, which can help you decide the best option for your family.
Founding Twiniversity — the world's leading support network for
multiple birth families — in 2009, she's become a global influencer for this small niche community.
Major brands of formula products, like Similac, Gerber (US) / Nestle (Canada), and Enfamil don't exactly offer
multiple birth programs, but they can be very generous with coupons and samples.
Additonally, children of incest are at a greater risk of being born with
multiple birth defects including mental deficiencies and physical malformations.
And not a one of us is exactely alike,
including multiple births, there is something on them that is differant than the other.
``... Betsy's
Multiple Birth class offered us the tools that we need to parent our children with the knowledge and confidence to bring out each of our children's individuality...» — Hedi and Matthew Gross
Charles Coddington, MD, President of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) remarked, «Physicians agree that we need to reduce the numbers of
multiple births resulting from assisted reproduction.
The most common form of
human multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of triplets (three), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven), and octuplets (eight) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive.
However,
because multiple births can be so unpredictable, cesarean sections are often needed to help deliver twins and multiples safely.
In the US, birth rates have been increasing for women over 30, according to the same CDC report, and this may also have something to do with the
rising multiple birth rate.
It is usually in the case of
multiple births when there is a lot more pushing involved, but sometimes even in regular baby births the stress and strain of pushing can aggravate or cause gallstones.
Some mothers and couples may hope for twins through fertility treatments, Adashi said, but more
often multiple births are not desired.
«We do have a real problem with way too
many multiple births in the United States with consequences to both mothers and babies,» said Adashi, the study's senior author and former dean of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
By transferring only a single embryo, you not only
avoid multiple births and all the health problems for the babies and mothers associated with these, but it also results in healthier ART singletons because there are fewer instances of «vanishing twins» or procedures to reduce the number foetuses developing after successful implantation of several in the mother's womb.»
This week, as Quebec moved towards paying for in vitro fertilization with the goal of reducing expensive and
risky multiple births (which may or may not work), it was hard to find a singleton in the world of biotech.