Tag: twin pregnancies

Risk of Multiples with Fertility Treatment

On May 11, 2017, a couple in Virginia welcomed sextuplets after trying to conceive for 17 years.  This story made headlines in every major news outlet not only because of the number of babies born at one time, but also because of how long the couple had been trying to conceive.  While it’s definitely a happy occasion that this couple …

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Big surprise: The incidence of twins is up

 

An analysis of three decades of twin births (2009 data are the most recent year included) finds large increases in twin birth rates for all age groups, among all racial and ethnic groups and in the U. S. The overall U.S. twin birth rate increased 76%, from 18.9 in 1980 to 33.2 per 1,000 births in 2009.

And for …

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