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 ...

The birth defects were more likely, but still very uncommon, in infants conceived through certain fertility treatments, a large study found. By Teddy Rosenbluth After multiple cycles of I.V.F. and ...

If you have always dreamed of parenthood, but perhaps the path to building your family was not a straight line, the remarkable advancements in In Vitro Fertilisation will certainly interest you. IVF ...

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 ...

Multiple births — twins, triplets or even more — can be both a blessing and a curse. Mercifully, a steep decline from twins to nonuplets fits a simple probability progression. Births of nine (usually ...