Facts About Multiples by Sue Jones

Multiple birth pregnancies are most often seen as a blessing for parents, but they can often come with significant complications. These complications may be seen during pregnancy, childbirth, or after the children are born. Some multiple births may result in only minor complications, but then comes the task of learning how to raise multiple babies at once. With just a little guidance and understanding, parents can overcome any challenges and raise healthy and happy multiples.

Odds of Having Multiples

Ask a Geneticist: A page from Stanford with a question and answer concerning twins.

Twins, Triplets or More: Some general info about multiple births and the odds of having multiples.

What Are The Chances Of My Having Twins?: Contains a table with the odds for having twins or triplets under different scenarios.

How to Raise Multiples

Parenting Multiples: A lot of great general info about life changes that come with having multiples.

National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs: This site offers support and guidance for parents of multiples.

Twinslist.org: Articles and advice about parenting twins and other multiples.

Mothers of Supertwins (MOST): A national support group for parents of multiples starting with triplets.

Multiple Births Canada: A resource site for people in Canada who are raising multiples.

Baby Care: Twins and Multiples: A page with some tips on raising multiples.

Matters of Multiples: This site has a lot of useful information for parents of multiples. It offers articles, podcasts, and more.

Medical Issues with Multiples

Multiples Birth: This page from the American Pregnancy Association provides information about medical issues that can arise with multiples.

Twins, Triplets, Multiple Births: Links to health information for women having multiples.

Twins, Triplets, and Other Multiples: This page from womenshealth.gov gives medical information concerning pregnancy with multiples, along with links to other resources.

Multiple Pregnancy: General information about the health concerns of a multiple pregnancy.

Multiple-Birth Pregnancy: Information on the science behind multiples and the risks involved with these pregnancies.

Multiple Birth: An informative article about multiple births from The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

Multiple Births: Risks and Rewards: An article about assisted reproductive technologies and multiple births.

Multiple-birth Babies, Boys Have Higher Risk of Defects: An article about birth defects in multiples.

Multiple Pregnancy and Birth: Twins, Triplets, and Higher Order Multiples: A Guide for Patients: An informative site about multiple births and their statistics and complications.

Statistics on Multiple Births

Facts and Figures Related to Multiple Births: Statistics related to multiple births.

Pediatrics: Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2007: Statistics related to all births in 2007, including details on multiple births.

Profile of Average Multiple Birth Mother and Baby: An article relating the findings of a study on multiple birth mothers and their babies.

Facts About Multiples: Lots of information regarding hormone therapy and multiple births.

Center for the Study of Multiple Birth: This organization provides a wealth of knowledge regarding multiples by way of articles, statistics, and links to other sites.

Popular Multiples

Zach and Jeremy Roloff: These are the twins from the popular TLC show Little People, Big World.

Nadya Suleman’s Octuplets: This site contains information and videos related to these popular multiples.

The Gosselin Kids: Cara and Mady (the twins) and Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel, and Leah (the sextuplets) from the TLC show Jon and Kate Plus Eight.

The Dilley Sextuplets: This is a site dedicated to the Dilley kids: Brenna, Julian, Quinn, Claire, Ian, and Adrian.

The Hayes Family: This family from the TLC show Table for 12 has two sets of twins and one set of sextuplets.

The Duggar Kids: This family showcased on the TLC show 18 Kids and Counting has 2 sets of twins. They are Jana and John-David and Jeremiah and Jedidiah.

Nic and Tristan: This is a page all about these amazing twin skateboarders.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: This is a fan site dedicated to the young stars who got their start in ABC’s Full House.

Dylan and Cole Sprouse: Info about the twin teens who star in Disney’s The Suite Life of Zach and Cody and The Suite Life On Deck.

Mathiasquads.org: A page dedicated to the identical quadruplets Anna, Grace, Mary Claire, and Emily Mathias.

Flo and Kay Lyman: Info and photos of the only known identical twin autistic savant siblings.

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