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The identical triplets are the world's only known deafblind triplets. [1] [2] [3] They were born on April 30, 2000, at 24 weeks. [4] Their mother had gone into labor at 23 weeks, [3] and had managed to hold off delivery until signs of distress in the triplets led to an emergency Caesarean. The law in the state of Texas at the time of their ...
The smallest of the octuplets, Odera, died a week after birth. [138] A set of octuplets was born between 13–16 September 2000, in Milan, Italy, to Mariella Mazzara and Giovanni Pierrera of Trapani. One died immediately after birth; two within a few days of birth; and the oldest, Margherita, died a month later on 10 October. [139] [140]
Monoamniotic twins are always monochorionic and are usually termed Monoamniotic-Monochorionic ("MoMo" or "Mono Mono") twins. [1] [2] They share the placenta, but have two separate umbilical cords. Monoamniotic twins develop when an embryo does not split until after formation of the amniotic sac, [1] at about 9–13 days after fertilization. [3]
Identical twins Rebecca "Becca" Lawrence and Christina "Tina" Keefer came into the world on the same day — and so did their babies.
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At 41, Audrey Tiberius unsuccessfully went through three rounds of IVF. At 46, the mom of four got pregnant naturally ... and had triplets.
The use of twins can improve the statistical power of a genetic study by reducing the amount of genetic and/or environmental variability. [1] " Identical twins" (monozygotic (MZ) twins) share virtually all their genes with each other, and "fraternal twins" (dizygotic (DZ) twins), on average, share about 50% of their genes with each other (about the same amount of sharing as non-twin siblings).
After identical twin sisters from Delaware married identical twin brothers from Tennessee, the children they are raising together share in a rare biological phenomenon. When identical twin sisters ...