Our estimated total number of multiple maternities differed by only 1% from the published total number of multiple maternities in England for 1997 2001 6 (ONS), indicating any underestimation of multiple maternities was negligible.
The number of maternities by multiplicity of birth (singleton, twin, triplet and higher order) and the rate of multiple maternities were calculated by maternal age (5-year bands), deprivation decile and year of birth.
Multiple maternities were significantly lower in the most deprived areas, and this was most evident in the older age groups.
Consequently, we had to estimate the number of multiple maternities which is prone to error as a result of a lack of data on late fetal losses.
The rate of multiple maternities, that is, the proportion of all maternities resulting in a multiple birth increased over the 12-year time period by 0.64% per year (95% CI (0.47% to 0.81%)) from 14.7/1000 maternities in 1997 to 15.6/1000 in 2008 (table 1).
Similarly, for the data on triplets and higher order multiple births, the number of maternities was taken as 1/3 of the births from higher order multiple pregnancies (again rounded up to the nearest whole number).
Elsewhere, maternity is the theme, as in Ms. Bourgeois's heavy marble basin with multiple breast forms carved into the inner walls ("Nature Study, Pink Fountain," 1984), placed before medieval Madonna and child paintings.
Home, family, maternity are actually embraced and ideally escaped.
Maternity is not a new subject, of course.
Pregnant mothers on maternity are often isolated".
