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 ...

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.

If you’re pregnant with more than one baby, it is often referred to as multiples. Pregnancies of more than one child represent approximately three in 100 births. If more than one egg is ...

Fertility clinics are being told to take steps to cut the number of multiple births. Doctors will be allowed to implant only two embryos into a woman, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Transfer of multiple embryos for IVF was an early and important advance to improve procedure effectiveness. Along with the increase in live birth rate, this advance resulted in a three-decade long ...

Guidance published yesterday by the Government's fertility watchdog aims to reduce the number of multiple births caused by IVF treatment. Studies show triplets are five times as likely to die as ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Multiple birth rate has been the most significant risk of assisted reproductive technology from early in its use.