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Multiple birth. A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets.
After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross, which paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935 , which made them wards of the Crown until ...
Fetus in fetu (or foetus in foetu) is a rare developmental abnormality in which a mass of tissue resembling a fetus forms inside the body of its twin. An early example of the phenomenon was described in 1808 by George William Young. [ 1] There are two hypotheses for the origin of a "fetus in fetu". One hypothesis is that the mass begins as a ...
The Hilton sisters toured first in Britain in 1911 (aged three) as "The United Twins". [5]: 125 Mary Hilton took them on to a tour through Germany, then to Australia, then in 1916 to the US. In true sideshow manner, their performance was accompanied by an imaginative "history". Their controllers kept all the money the sisters earned.
Teen Mom 2 alum Kailyn Lowry is pregnant with twins — and she thinks she might be having two girls. “I went to a new nail place today and I’m just sitting there talking to the girl next to ...
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [ 1] Nicole, Erica, and Jaclyn Dahm, commonly known as the Dahm triplets (born in that order [ 2] on December 12, 1977), [ 1] are identical triplets from Minnesota. The Dahm triplets have appeared on many TV shows and movies and have been in magazines such as Teen and Playboy. They are best known as being only the second set ...
Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. [ 1][ 2] The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning able to produce offspring. Homopaternal superfecundation is fertilization of two ...
According to Dr. Nathan Sundgren, associate medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who treated the babies, the sisters are now all between 6.5 to 7 pounds, and "doing great."