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This is a list of multiple births, consisting of notable higher order (4+) multiple births and pregnancies. Twins and triplets are sufficiently common to have their own separate articles. With the use of reproductive technology such as fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization (IVF) such births have become increasingly common. This list ...
Twins are by far the most common form of multiple births in humans. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report more than 132,000 sets of twins out of 3.9 million births of all kinds each year, about 3.4%, or 1 in 30. [5] Compared to other multiple births, twin births account for 97% of them in the US. [6]
Twin (4 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Multiple births" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Triplet and higher multiple births nosedive. In 2004, of the people younger than 35 who gave birth with the help of IVF, 32.7% delivered twins, and 4.9% delivered triplets, according to doctors at ...
Ms McNaught (born 1923), of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, gave birth to 22 children, 12 boys (2 of them died in infancy) and 10 girls, all single births. [6] 22 Effie (née Estes) and Charles Dickey 1914 (c.) From Clinton, Maine, Ms Dickey gave birth to 22 children, all single births. All of them lived to adulthood, with 18 of them living at least ...
After a few weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, the so-called quad squad, who each weighed about 4 lbs. at birth, are now all home in Slidell, La., joining their lively 2-year-old brother, PJ.
The company supported the Miles Quads for many years, and when the family moved to a new home at 27 New Street, St Neots, [note 2] Cow & Gate gave financial assistance toward making a nursery there, as well as providing baby milk and weaning foods, and giving them birthday presents. When they reached 21 years of age in 1956, in those days ...
The human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from 1980 through 2009, from 9.4 to 16.7 twin sets (18.8 to 33.3 twins) per 1,000 births. [5] The Yoruba people have the highest rate of twinning in the world, at 45–50 twin sets (90–100 twins) per 1,000 live births, [6] [7] [8] possibly because of high consumption of a specific type of yam containing a natural phytoestrogen which may ...