"We really have to get control over multiple pregnancies, and we are trying," Dr. Marrs said.
In my nearly 10 years working with women facing unplanned pregnancies, I have seen many decide to have an abortion because they were carrying multiple pregnancies and did not feel able to cope.
To the Editor: "The Gift of Life, and Its Price" reports that the fertility industry's professional organization encourages its members to transfer fewer embryos, so as to produce fewer multiple pregnancies and premature babies.
The fall in multiple pregnancies and births follows a rise in women who opted to have one embryo implanted at a time, from 4.8% in 2008 to 14.7% in the first half of 2010.
From Lucie's multiple pregnancies and miscarriages, only one of her six children outlived her.In comparison, Ms Fraser's book is a lesser, though still entertaining, work.
The main exclusion criteria were the presence of hereditary diseases, multiple pregnancies, and chronic exposure to known toxic or genotoxic substances.
The aetiology is unclear; obesity with rapid weight loss, multiple pregnancies and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are considered predisposing factors.
The final objective was to avoid multiple pregnancies and offer the best chances to women to achieve pregnancy even during their frozen thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles.
The survival rate was also a function of gestational age, birth weight, the administration of corticosteroids, multiple pregnancies, and fetal heart rate.
Risk factors correlating to the development of SAA include fibromuscular dysplasia, collagen vascular diseases, female gender, history of multiple pregnancies, and portal hypertension, although the pathogenesis is not fully understood [11].
To determine the extent to which embryo selection by blastulation and elective single blastocyst transfer, supported by efficient cryostorage of spare embryos, can reduce multiple pregnancies and maintain or improve on the live birth rate from IVF.
