Multiple births can occur due to many reasons. It has occurred naturally too but of late the fertility treatments seem to have caused a few more multiple births. Multiple births of more than 6 ...

While the primary goal of IVF is to assist individuals who struggle with infertility in having healthy babies, the procedure has also led to the proliferation of multiple births. Following IVF ...

Although less common than pregnancy with one baby, multiple births are a natural part of human reproduction. About one in every 60 pregnancies is a multiple birth – whether that’s twins ...

For years, doctors have been pushing to lower the rate of multiple births due to fertility treatment. Not only had two headline-grabbing births occurred in the same week, but several recent ...

As multiple birth pregnancies can cost nearly 20 times more than singleton pregnancies, strategies to minimize multiple embryo transfer should be considered, researchers argue. Multiple ...

Sounds like a lot of stress to handle more than one baby at once. It turns out that, according to new research, multiple births are a risk factor for postpartum depressive symptoms in mothers.

The rate of triplet and higher-order multiple births in the United States declined 62 percent from 1998 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the downturn ...

The birth defects were more likely, but still very uncommon, in infants conceived through certain fertility treatments, a large study found. By Teddy Rosenbluth After multiple cycles of I.V.F. and ...