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In the past decades, the number of twin births has skyrocketed. A new study shows that triplet births — including those conceived without the help of reproductive technology — are also on the rise.
Are triplets fast becoming the new twins? Continue reading »
An Australian woman who just gave birth to her eleventh and twelfth children – most with the help of fertility treatments – may be on track to become the next OctoMom.
Nadya Suleman made headlines first for having eight babies at once, but the outrage was over the six kids she ALREADY had at home. And much of that swirled around the doctors who allowed it happen.
So what’s the story with Dale Chalk? Continue reading »
Because you knew it had to happen.
If you find yourself in Kodinji, India you may think you need to make an optometrist appointment, stat. Why? Because you’ll be seeing double. This small village of about 15,000 in India has about 230 sets of twins living there. A high ratio of multiple births no matter where in the world you are, clocking in at about four times the average rate of twin births.
The village has been nicknamed Continue reading »
Twin boys sharing one body and all the same vital organs save separate hearts and separate heads were born Thursday in Indonesia.
While in some cases conjoined twins can be separated, there is very little likelihood that will happen for these twins as they share practically every facet of their one body. Continue reading »
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Nadya Suleman’s 2-year-old son, Caleb, was sprinted to the hospital this weekend after eating a volcano.
Let me back that up. Caleb ingested his older brother’s volcano kit, which mainly comprised of salt water, and when Caleb had a vomitous eruption of his own, Suleman called the paramedics just to be on the safe side. Continue reading »
Before there was Octomom and the confusing equation of Jon & Kate, there were plenty of other mega-multiple births.
We’ve been spoiled by the willingness of Nadya Suleman and the Gosselin parents to prop their brood before all kinds of media, letting us watch as they push their kids to perform like trained monkeys. But these modern reality starts are hardly the first parents to go down that path. Parents of multiples have been using their babes to shill diapers and lifestyles for decades.
Newsweek found one group of quintuplets — now 26 — who were willing to talk about growing up multiples, which is to say, in the spotlight.
What do we learn? Continue reading »
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