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  2. Hellin's law - Wikipedia

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    Hellin's law, also called Hellin-Zeleny's law, is an empirical observation in demography that the approximate rate of multiple births is one n-tuple birth per 89 n-1 singleton births: twin births occur about once per 89 singleton births, triplets about once per 89 2, quadruplets about once per 89 3, and so on.

  3. Multiple birth - Wikipedia

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    A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals , with varying frequencies.

  4. Gravidity and parity - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Robson classification - Wikipedia

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    The ten mutually-exclusive groups were first described by the obstetrician Michael Robson in 2001, and are defined based on the category of the pregnancy, the woman's previous obstetric record, the course of the labour and delivery, and the gestational age at delivery. [2]

  6. Montevideo units - Wikipedia

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    Montevideo units are a method of measuring uterine performance during labor.They were created in 1949 by two physicians, Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia and Hermogenes Alvarez, from Montevideo, Uruguay.

  7. List of multiple births - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Superfecundation - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning able to produce offspring. Homopaternal superfecundation is fertilization of two separate ova from the same father, leading to fraternal twins , [ 3 ] while heteropaternal superfecundation is a form of atypical twinning where, genetically, the twins are half siblings – sharing ...

  9. Selective reduction - Wikipedia

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    Selective reduction is used when a mother is carrying an unsafe or undesirable number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, which are common in medically assisted pregnancies. The result is a reduction in the number of fetuses to a number that is more safe for the mother and the remaining fetuses or more compatible with socio-economic constraints ...

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