TWIN TALES: The Magic and Mystery of Multiple Birth.
Maybe I could get a multiple birth and have them all at once?
Fertility clinics are reducing multiple birth rates by encouraging women to have only one embryo implanted at a time.
The HFEA says that fertility clinics must bring down multiple birth rates to no more than 15%.
As it was a multiple birth, prenatal consultants provided consistent care in the months leading up to my due date.
But a woman having a multiple birth should gain more, depending on how many babies she is carrying.
Multiple birth, the delivery of more than one offspring in a single birth event.
There are ethical issues for doctors to actually try and make a multiple birth.
"A multiple birth is the single highest risk to the success of pregnancy, the health of the child and the health of the mother," Jardine said.
Second time round, she says, "I felt a little stupid that I didn't consider it might be twins, because with in vitro [fertilisation], multiple birth is very common.
