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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]
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 ...
Category: Multiple births. 14 languages. ... Twin (4 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Multiple births" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
According to Popular Science, new mom Jamjuree was just as surprised with baby Number 2 as everybody else. She delivered the first baby, a 176-pound male and 18 minutes later the 132-pound female ...
A female who has never carried a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks is nulliparous and is called a nullipara or para 0. [10] A female who has given birth once is primiparous and is referred to as a primipara or primip. A female who has given birth two, three, or four times is multiparous and is called a multip.
The recent birth of a set of twins sounds almost like a riddle—somehow, the one that was born later is actually considered older than his sibling. Daylight saving time causes second-born twin to ...
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 ...
There’s a “third form of twinning,” say researchers. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us