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