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Today many multiple pregnancies are the result of in vitro fertilisation (IVF). In a 1997 study of 2,173 embryo transfers performed as part of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), 34% were successfully delivered pregnancies. [41] The overall multiple pregnancy rate was 31.3% (24.7% twins, 5.8% triplets, and .08% quadruplets). [41]
Doctors put the odds of having identical quadruplets at about one in 15 million — which makes Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu very special. The couple in Texas welcomed four identical girls on May 1.
The odds of conceiving spontaneous quadruplets falls between 1 in 512,000 to 1 in 677,000 according to the Journal of Family and Reproductive Health. “She was like, ‘Twins?’ But the ...
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 ...
In 2019, a Chinese woman was reported to have two babies from different fathers, one of whom was her husband and the other was a man having a secret affair with her during the same time. [12] In 2022, a 19-year-old Brazilian from Mineiros gave birth to twins from two different fathers with whom she had sex on the same day. [13]
Last Leap Year, in 2020, Yahoo Life spoke with Dane Demchak; he and his wife Lindsay beat the odds by having not one, but two, babies born on a Leap Day, with neither birth induced. Their son ...
The Hayes also have two sets of twins, Kevin and Kyle (eight years old at the time of the sextuplets' birth) and Kieran and Meghan (five years old). They are the only family in the United States to have two sets of twins and a set of sextuplets. [93] The family was the subject of a reality television show, Table for 12, on TLC in the U.S. [94]
204 sets of twins and 2 sets of triplets born to 2,000 families [1] Velikaya Kopanya Ukraine: Europe: 122 twins in a population of 4,000 [2] Igbo-Ora: Nigeria: Africa: 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1000 live births [3] Cândido Godói: Brazil: South America: One in 10 births involves twins [4] Mohammadpur Umri: India: Asia: One in 10 births ...