Even after adjusting for maternal age, the rate of
twin births rose 1.6 times between 1971 and 2009, the authors reported.
Most of that increase occurred between 1980 and 2009, when the rate of
twin births rose 76 %.
Not exact matches
The rate of
twin births has
risen 79 percent over the last three decades, and continues to increase.
With multiple
birth on the
rise, chances are you know someone with
twins or triplets.
This last Sunday, July 29, 2012, she gave
birth to
twins; a boy named Aidan and a girl named Emily
Rose.
If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife - led
birth centers, the nation's C - section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current
twin trend of
rising health care expenditures and numbers of cesarean deliveries.
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 *.
By 2009, that number had
risen to one in 30, which means that over three decades, the
twin birth rate (number of
twins per 1,000
births)
rose 76 %.
«The higher rate of
twins and preterm
birth in ART singletons might have given
rise to lower academic test scores.