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This project is for profiles that are born twins, triplets or other multiple births. The chance of conceiving spontaneous triplets is as high as 1 in 8,000 (1 in 500,000 for identical triplets), there’s no question that multiples are somewhat of a rarity. Multiple births are much more common today than they were in the past. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the twi...
Please add the profiles of babies born before 37 weeks gestation regardless of how long after birth they die.== There is a project for Premature Birth (Prematuritas) Survivors . A premature birth is when a baby is born before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks. Almost 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States are premature, or preemies. There are 2 kinds of...
This project is of twins and multiples who are a part of one family unit that has more than one set of twins/multiples. This means both or at least one of the parents have had twins or multiples at least two times. The Royal College of Midwives estimated that the odds of consecutive sets of twins were more than 700,000-to-one, noting that it is more common when multiple pregnancies are se...
To clarify, prove or disprove a popular belief about high incidence of twin births in Podgora Work completed - see article in Cambridge Journal of Biosciance -- link High incidence of twin births in Podgora has attracted a fair amount of media attention. We will try to quantify it by looking at number of births per year for the last 300-400 years, parental age, incidence of both maternal and pa...