Sextuplets have been widely followed in the media, from the Dilley "Six Pack" born in 1993 to the television series "Jon & Kate Plus 8" which documented the daily life of the Gosselin family who have both twins and sextuplets.
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Sextuplets were born in Ohio on Feb. 26, 2004 and while the babies made history as the first set of sextuplets to be born in Ohio, they also came into the world rather swiftly. They were all born within the same minute.
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Sextuplets--six fetuses
Septuplets--seven fetuses
While multiples account for only a small percentage of all births (about 3 percent), the multiple birth rate is rising.
im pregnant with sextuplets and i only gained 2 pounds am i not eating
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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.
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.
three babies - triplets
four babies - quadruplets or quads
five babies - quintuplets or quints
six babies - sextuplets
seven babies - septuplets
eight babies - 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.
There will also be a special award at the judges' discretion - if there has been a 'major' news story - which paper handled it in the most sensitive/responsible way (for example conjoined twins or sextuplets).
You probably don't need to worry much about naturally conceiving and delivering high order multiples, though. Sextuplets, for instance, spontaneously occur in only about one in 4.7 billion pregnancies [sources: ASRM, CBC News].
disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and vision and hearing loss. While advances in caring for very small infants has brightened the outlook for these tiny babies, chances remain slim that all infants in a set of sextuplets or ...
The couple had two sets of twins within four years and then decided to give fertility treatments one more try (they wanted a sister for their only daughter) and found themselves greeting sextuplets...
 See also: Identical twins, Multiple Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Multip, Pregnant
  
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