Low Birth Weight Most Common Reason for Admission
Study looks at multiples born in a special care baby unit in a resource-limited setting in Nigeria. The researchers wanted to learn how the babies were doing shortly after birth.
Category: Birth
Twin Birth Plan: Pain Management & Birthing Environment
Making a twin birth plan can make you and your partner feel more at ease before and during labor. It’s a good way for you to let the hospital staff know about your expectations.
Premature Twins: Week by Week Twin Gestation Overview
Find out about survival rate, special care and birth weight for premature twins born at 27 to 37 weeks. Learn about premature labor and attachment issues.
Risk of Stillbirth Higher for Twins with Birth Weight Discordance
Women carrying twins with birth weight discordance are more at risk of experiencing stillbirth.
Researchers Compare Vaginal Delivery by Chorionicity
A 2018 study looks at vaginal delivery of monochorionic and dichorionic twins. The researchers wanted to determine how the newborn babies were doing and whether or not there were any differences in relation to sickness and mortality based on chorionicity.
Factors That Increase Likelihood of Successful Vaginal Delivery of Twins
New study identifies factors that increase and decrease the likelihood of successful vaginal delivery of twins.
Twin Study Examines Safest Way To Deliver
New study indicates that planned vaginal delivery is favorable for women expecting twins. However, only if twin A is head first and delivered between 32 to 37 weeks.
VBAC with Twins: Half of the Women Succeeded
Researchers explore 380,095 twin births to determine the success rate of vaginal birth after c-section – VBAC with twins.
Moms With Preterm Twins Are More at Risk
New study looks at whether or not women who give birth to twins prematurely are more at risk of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies.
Parents Have Less Secure Attachment to Children Born Preterm
New study looks at parents attachment to babies born preterm and at term. It also explores whether or not having twins affect parent-child attachment.
