Related Resources: Octuplets
This collection of information about octuplets explores the phenomenon of extreme higher order multiples.
Octuplets - A multiple birth in which eight babies are born from one pregnancy.
Oligemia - A reduced amount of blood in the body. During labor this can be caused by hemorrhage. A blood transfusion may be necessary to prevent additional complications.
U.S. octuplets' mother plans documentary series
U.S. teen pregnancy rate up after ten-year decline
U.S. women delaying motherhood ...
The California octuplets and the duties of reproductive endocrinologists.
Am J Obstet Gynecol, 201(1): 15.e1-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
The role of transvaginal ultrasound or endometrial biopsy in the evaluation of the menopausal endometrium.
birth is twins (two babies), but cases of triplets (three), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven), octuplets (eight), and nonuplets (nine) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive.
What Do You Think About The Octuplets?
In the wake of national media coverage of IVF patient Nadya Suleman and her octuplets born in January, we say the issue is a public educataion opportunity on avoiding the risk of multiple births.
Two babies born at a time are twins; three are triplets, four are quadruplets, five are quintuplets, six are sextuplets, seven are septuplets and eight are octuplets.
In fact, most of the infamous cases of high-order multiple births ( such as sextuplets and octuplets) have occurred after IUI. If you grow too many follicles, you may choose to cancel the cycle.
three babies - triplets
four babies - quadruplets or quads
five babies - quintuplets or quints
six babies - sextuplets
seven babies - septuplets
eight babies - octuplets ...
 See also: Pregnancy, Pregnant, Multip, Multiple Pregnancy, Identical twins
  
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