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Multiple births (twins, triplets and higher multiples) count as one pregnancy (gravidity) and as one birth. For example, a pregnant female who carried one pregnancy to term with a surviving infant; carried one pregnancy to 35 weeks with surviving twins; carried one pregnancy to 9 weeks as an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy; and has three living ...
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century". [1] [2] [3] [4]
Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 to 28 weeks of pregnancy. [140] [141] It results in a baby born without signs of life. [141] Worldwide prevention of most stillbirths is possible with improved health systems.
Occasionally a human birth is anything but ordinary. A recent report highlighted a rare case from 2010, in which a baby girl born in Hong Kong was found to be carrying twin fetuses. The study ...
One week after birth, the Suleman octuplets became the longest-living octuplets in United States history, as the smallest of the Chukwu octuplets born in Houston in 1998 died seven days after birth. [12] [13] Suleman set the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive. [14]
Babies born from multiple-birth pregnancies are much more likely to result in premature birth than those from single pregnancies. 51% of twins and 91% of triplets are born preterm, compared to 9.4% in singletons. [33] 14% of twins and 41% of triplets are even born very preterm, compared to 1.7% in singletons. [33]
Mackenzie Root, 24, welcomed her daughter on Oct. 7 at Lakenau Medical Center — the next day, Alysha Orsine, 30, who works as a nurse at the same hospital, gave birth to her bundle of joy
Born prematurely at 28 weeks, six of the octuplets died within 12 hours of birth, and the remaining two died within three days. [113] [133] A set of octuplets was born between 30 September – 2 October 1996, in a hospital in South London, United Kingdom, to Mandy Allwood of Solihull. Allwood was only 19 weeks pregnant when she went into pre ...