Sentences with phrase «of twin birth»

fraternal (in genetics) The term for a type of twin birth where each baby comes from a separate fertilized egg.
The rate of twin births in the United States has increased nearly 80 % since 1980, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most of that increase occurred between 1980 and 2009, when the rate of twin births rose 76 %.
Sometimes it's an emergency and sometimes it's planned, but still many mothers of twins birth their babies via cesarean.
One baby being born vaginally with the second twin being born via cesarean occurs in only about 4 percent of all twin births.
However, there are successful cases of twin births in a birth center, but it is best to always talk with a doctor and adapt the birth plan to the circumstances of each mother to avoid putting their lives at risk.
The Yoruba tribe in Nigeria has the highest rate of twin births in the world.
The rate of twin births has risen 79 percent over the last three decades, and continues to increase.
In fact, more than 40 % of twin births are vaginal, and the process is similar to that of a single baby.
In the United States, it has been estimated that by 2011, 36 % of twin births and 78 % of triplet and higher - order births resulted from conception by assisted reproductive technology.
Then again, it's no surprise that we Baby Bunchers are assailed with this question... after all, the number of twin births has risen by 50 percent in the past three decades *.
Since 1975, the number of twin births have jumped over 75 percent.
Because we had a toddler at home at the time of the twins birth, the our schedule didn't allow for too much time to tend to her.
In recent years, doctors have cut the number of implantations down to two in most cases, reducing the incidence of triplets and quadruplets, but increasing the rate of twin births.
Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Brown University, and his colleagues calculated that more than a third of twin births and more than three - quarters of triplets or higher - order births in the United States in 2011 were the result of fertility treatments.
Even after adjusting for maternal age, the rate of twin births rose 1.6 times between 1971 and 2009, the authors reported.
The finding may help explain the strange 60 percent surge in the rate of twin births in the United States between 1977 and 2002.
The hormone content in milk may explain why women who drink it appear to have five times the rate of twin births compared with women who do not drink milk.
[58] Currently there are no accounts of twin births, although an instance of twins in utero has been reported.

Not exact matches

Cases of identical twins separated at birth who were outlined in this study indicated that only one third of our ability to think creatively is genetic.
In 2013, 33.7 of every 1,000 births were twins, compared to just 18.9 out of 1,000 in 1980.
Yahoo's shift in strategy comes as Ms. Mayer and her husband, Zachary Bogue, are expecting the birth of twin daughters this month.
The wife of Mexico's most wanted drug baron, Joaquin Guzman, gives birth to twin girls at a US hospital.
The explanation of Isaac's name (from a word meaning «laughter») is indicated in the thrice - repeated narrative motif of laughter over the idea and fact of Isaac's birth (17:17, 18:12, 21:6) So is Ishmael's (16:11, 17:20, 21:17) The meaning «heelholder» is given to the name Jacob with the explanation that he was born holding his twin brother by the heel (25:26).
Before he did, he was able to make amends to her and his two children for all the times he failed them; and what is more, he beat doctor's predictions about his mortality, living to witness the birth of his twin grandsons.
In support of the argument that at least sometimes sexual orientation is a condition of birth, Bruni describes how «One landmark study looked at gay men's brothers and found that 52 % of identical twin brothers were also gay.»
The New York Times recently reported on the growing practice of parents expecting twins electively aborting one so as to give birth to only one of the two.
What of the sort of cloning that has most dominated public attention - that aimed at giving birth to a child who is the genetic twin of its «ancestor»?
Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed by his father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).
An alleged peculiarity of Jacob's birth and the subsequent, continuing relationship between the descendants of Jacob and Esau is etymologically explained («heel - holder» — born holding his twin brother's heel, 25:26); while the same man's character (and in their own eyes, surely, that of his descendants who bear the name) is etymologically defined in his other name, Israel (perhaps «Striver with God» 32:28).
In this case, it's not Trent, the murderous long - lost twin of your husband separated at birth, but something more sinister: your trusty oven.
The Portuguese superstar already has three children with Ronaldo Jr along with twins Mateo and Eva Maria part of his family, but he's now added to the group as he shared the news on social media shortly after Rodriguez gave birth.
Hayes is equally aware of this season's specific time constraints, not least because the 41 - year - old is due to give birth to twins in June.
Birth of the second twin, when presenting breech, can on occasion require extraction.
Fast forward to the birth of my twins, which was one week earlier than my planned C - section due to an ultrasound suggesting that my son was not, in fact, on par with his sister as far as weight was concerned.
Pursuing healing from my previous birth: I found that as I processed my first, traumatic birth, I began to feel more ready for the arrival of my twins.
This has been said to naturally increase a person's chance of giving birth to twins.
According to a Long Island Medical Doctor known for his research on pregnant women and multiple births, women who consumed dairy products especially milk from hormone treated cows have a five times higher chance of conceiving twins.
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Back in 2010, there was one birth of twins in every thirty births that happened in the USA.
I found that as I processed my first, traumatic birth, I began to feel more ready for the arrival of my twins.
Treatments like fertility drugs primarily increase a person's odds of giving birth to fraternal twins (two eggs fertilized by two sperms).
Likewise, tall women also had a higher chance of giving birth to twins.
Once you give birth to your twins, you may be at higher risk of maternal anemia and postpartum hemorrhage.
Instead of excluding the high risk births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.
On Friday morning, at a ridiculously early hour, Bey dropped the first Instagram of the twins» birth announcement, a s...
According to the Howlands, what originally excited them about being matched with Angela was not only was «she a birth mother but a birth mother of twins
while being coerced to push even though I wanted to breath the babies down, I didn't get to see them at all for 15 hours after they were born because the hospital staff didn't get their act together, not because it was medically necessary, etc., so much so that the head of OB (my office doc) later admitted they had me on suicide watch because what happened was so different than my birth plan... I wasn't stuck on exact details, especially because twins throw a loop in all of it, but it was nothing like I had hoped for, at all.
About small percentage of all twin pregnancies are undetected until birth.
Just like home birth nuts — breech is a variant of normal, I've only had one prior C / S, the twins aren't THAT big and even though they are both breech my expert midwife assures me she can make them turn with moxibustion....
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