Researchers Explore Low Twin Birth Weight & Loss
A new study explores the association between low birth weight in twins, growth discordance and mortality shortly before and after birth.
Category: Pregnancy
Boys With Co-Twin Sisters Are Bigger at Birth
Boys with co-twin sisters are on average heavier and longer at birth than boys with co-twin brothers. All twins in this multinational study were dizygotic.
225 Cute & Unique Twin Boy Names
Find out which twin names for boys other parents have chosen and learn which sibling names fit.
Growth Restricted Twins Are Still Smaller at School Age
A new study looks at monochorionic twins with a birth weight discordance of more than 20 percent to determine the long-term effects of Intrauterine Growth Restriction.
Overweight Women Are More Likely to Give Birth Prematurely
New study explores the risk of premature labour according to pre-pregnancy BMI in women pregnant with twins.
Researchers Compare Monochorionic And Dichorionic Twin Pregnancies
A new study explores how chorionicity in twins affects pregnancies and the newborn twins. 232 monochorionic and dichorionic twin pregnancies were followed.
Miscarriage is Common in Twin Pregnancies After IVF
A group of researchers did a study to explore the incidence of miscarriage of one twin in dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies. All pregnancies were conceived after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.
Twin Birth Weight Discordance: Mum is More Likely to Get Sick
A Canadian study looks at twins with birth weight discordance to determine whether or not their mothers are more at risk of developing morbidities.
Differences in Fetal Growth May be Caused by Hormones
A group of researchers set out to examine whether differences in fetal growth between twin and singleton pregnancies can be related to hormones.
Twin Mums Have an Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Dysfunction
Study finds that women pregnant with twins have an increased risk of cardiovascular dysfunction compared to women pregnant with singletons.
