Special names for multiple births help identify the number of babies born at once. The development of assisted reproductive technologies, like in vitro fertilization, has led to an increase in ...

A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more offspring. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most ...

Twins, triplets, and other multiples have long caught the attention of "singletons," or those of us born without a built-in best friend by our sides. Twins—and the media—annually descend on Twinsburg, ...

A new study by University professors shows older women are more likely to give birth to more than one baby at a time due to the aging reproductive system. The researchers compared reproductively ...

The Dionne quintuplets were a global sensation during the Great Depression. The last of the five sisters, Annette, died in December. By Ian Austen She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, ...

The story of so-called Octomom Nadya Suleman has raised a lot of interest in multiple births. Although having 8 babies at one time is uncommon, multiple births are not. Rex and Patty Wilhite always ...

The story of Nadya Suleman -- the unemployed, single mother in California who recently gave birth to eight babies, in addition to six others she already had, has raised interest in multiple births.