Special names for multiple births help identify the number of babies born at once. The development of assisted reproductive technologies, like in vitro fertilization, has led to an increase in ...

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 ...

The story of so-called Octomom Nadya Suleman has raised a lot of interest in multiple births. Although having 8 babies at one time is uncommon, multiple births are not. Rex and Patty Wilhite always ...

Did you know that multiple births are happening more often now than in the past? It's probably because two factors that increase the odds of having multiples—fertility treatments and getting pregnant ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who deliver two or more babies are 43-percent more likely to suffer from depression 9 months after birth than their counterparts who deliver only one child, ...

Multiple births — twins, triplets or even more — can be both a blessing and a curse. Mercifully, a steep decline from twins to nonuplets fits a simple probability progression. Births of nine (usually ...