Sentences with phrase «twins than a mother»

The study even explained that a mother who took folic acid before getting pregnant will have a 40 % or more chance of having twins than a mother who did not take any.

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As the mother of 7.5 - month old twins, I learned more about double strollers than I ever would have imagined.

My mother's twin was lost at birth (it was 1949, the USSR; no ultrasounds, nothing of what we take for granted today), and though perhaps my Grandmother had the small comfort of at least coming home with one baby rather than with empty arms, she never forgot.

My friend Carol has been a single mother since her older son was in elementary school and her twins were less than a year old.

Obesity is also a huge trigger for varicose veins and those carrying twins, triplets or more are far more likely to be affected than mothers carrying a single child.

A study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that mothers with a high BMI (body mass index) were significantly more likely to have fraternal twins than women of normal weight.

As a mom carrying twins it is recommended to gain weight earlier and more aggressively than as a singleton mother.

When my twin sons were babies, we lived a block away from a day - care center, and just as I was setting out with the stroller for the first walk of the day — usually at 7:30, right after the first segment of the Today show ended — I would see mothers dropping off their children, many of whom were infants no older than mine.

Researchers report more cases of vanishing twin syndrome in women older than 30, though that may be due to the fact that older mothers in general have higher rates of multiple pregnancies, especially with the use of fertility treatments.

This includes that the mother must have no significant pre-existing disease, no significant disease arising during pregnancy, a singleton pregnancy (no twins or higher order multiples), the baby must be head - down, labor must start between 37 and 41 weeks of pregnancy, the mother must have had no more than 1 previous caesarean section, and labor must begin spontaneously.

A review of good quality research on this subject found that if the twin that will be born first (i.e. is lowest in the womb) is head down there is no good evidence that caesarean section will be safer than a vaginal birth for the mother or babies.

I tried to match Johnson and Daviss as specifically as possible by adding in the additional variables of singleton (not twins or other multiples) and looking at Certified Nurse Midwives, who tend to care for lower - risk mothers than obstetricians.

Some studies have even gone further to claim that breastfeeding mothers were nine times more likely to have twins than women who are not lactating.

Studies have revealed that older mothers have higher chances of having twins than their younger counterparts.

According to the results, by the time the twins reached full - term, mothers were sleeping an average of 5.4 hours in a 24 - hour period, with over 70 percent reporting less than six hours of sleep.

Due to increased blood volume and a growing uterus, twin mothers usually experience a slightly higher weight gain than mothers of singletons.

For some unknown reason, mothers in their 30s are more likely to have twins than younger or older women.

According to calculations from La Leche League International, breastfeeding during the first year saves a mother of twins about 300 hours and more than $ 1,200.

Sometimes it feels like I have twins but I know that mothers of twins work so much harder than I do.

Whatever the cause, there is no question of the outcome: mothers of opposite - sex twins end up with 19 percent fewer grandchildren than moms of same - sex twins, meaning evolution would seem to favor the latter.

She claims that mothers who follow these guidelines and gain 28 pounds by 24 weeks are more likely to carry the twins to term and deliver normal weight babies (rather than underweight).

But there are also parts that don't seem to have a point other than be sort of amusing — chiefly ones involving the twins» mother (played by the Archibalds» actual mother, Charlene) or Krystal's co-workers.

While this flick may focus more on the relationship between twins Hallie and Annie (Lindsay Lohan) than their mother, there's something thoroughly beautiful about the girls» relationship with their mother Elizabeth, played by the late Natasha Richardson.

As the twins learn more and more about their home, their past, and their mother's character, they begin to suspect that their father, presumed dead, may be something less than deceased.