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Types of Triplets

Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy

The triplets have all been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, prompting their parents, Dana and Jared, to start a fundraising organization for neurological research. (andrew wallace / toronto star) The pregnancy had not gone as planned.

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Premature Birth and low Birth Weight
Premature Birth and low Birth Weight

Preterm, Low Birth Weight and Multiple Births: ... • Not all cases of preterm and low birth weight ... - For triplets or more, weight gain should be

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Quadruplets
Quadruplets

The overall multiple pregnancy rate was 31.3% (24.7% twins, 5.8% triplets, and .08% quadruplets). Because IVFs are producing more multiples, a number of efforts are being made to reduce the risk of multiple births- specifically triplets or more.

Quintuplets
Quintuplets

A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, ... as in twins and triplets. ... Quintuplets occur naturally in 1 in 55,000,000 births. ...

Sextuplets
Sextuplets

A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother delivers two or more offspring. A term most applicable to placental species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets.

Triplets
Triplets

He employed, also, two other more questionable means of variety, namely, the insertion (not original with him) of occasional Alexandrine lines and of frequent triplets, three lines instead of two riming together.

Twins Main Article: Twin
Twins Main Article: Twin

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. 14% of twins and 41% of triplets are even born very preterm, compared to 1.7% in singletons.

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Very High-Order Multiple Births
Very High-Order Multiple Births

In 1994, the frequency of triplets and higher-order multiple births was 1 in 838, whereas it had been 1 in 1912 in 1985. 3, 4 In 1994, the proportion of first births to women aged 30 years or older was 21%, whereas it had been only 5% in 1970.

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