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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]
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.
The new data also showed that the raw number of triplet and higher-order multiple births in the United States declined 65% between 1998 and 2023 – falling from a total of 7,625 births in 1998 to ...
A multiple pregnancy (e.g., twins, triplets, etc.) is counted as 1. Parity, or "para", indicates the number of births (including live births and stillbirths) where pregnancies reached viable gestational age. A multiple pregnancy (e.g., twins, triplets, etc.) carried to viable gestational age is still counted as 1. [3]
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 ...
4.6 Multiple births. 4.7 Fetal monitoring. ... If the twins are joined at any part of the body – called conjoined twins, delivery is mostly by caesarean section.
But a loss to the Yellow Jackets would’ve forced Georgia to beat Texas to earn a playoff bid; the Bulldogs weren’t going to finish in the top 12 of the rankings at 9-4. 6. Ohio State (10-2)