how common is it to get pregnant with triplets?
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Statistics vary but some research suggests conceiving triplets naturally occurs 1 in every 9000 births. Via fertility assistance, the likelihood increases to around 1 in every 40.
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That's 1 in 12! If your first set of twins were identical, then your chances of having another set of identical twins drops way down to 1 in 70,000 or so. If you are using fertility treatment, then the chances are the same as with your first set of twins.
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The odds are lower than you may think For every 20 pregnancies conceived with Clomid, only one will result in twins. Clomid (clomiphene), a pill taken by mouth to induce ovulation, causes twin pregnancies between 5% and 12% of the time. 1﻿ That's fewer than one in 10 pregnancies.
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Identical twins The first involves a single egg being fertilized by a single sperm. ... But then, somewhere along the way, the fertilized egg divides into two, resulting in identical twins. The chances of having identical twins is relatively rare — around 3 or 4 in every 1,000 births.
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Although it is extremely unlikely, it is still possible for identical triplets to occur after single embryo transfer which occurs during fertility assistance. ... One single embryo split after being returned to her uterus and then divided three times, resulting in three identical boys.
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Women have a 10 to 20 percent chance of getting pregnant with each IUI cycle. The more cycles you go through, the better your chances become.
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The most common form of human multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of triplets (three), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven), and octuplets (eight) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive.
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It is possible for twins to have different fathers in a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation, which occurs when two of a woman's eggs are fertilized by sperm from two different men. Ordinarily, a woman becomes pregnant because one of her eggs has been fertilized by sperm.
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Odds of twins There are two ways that a woman may conceive twins. In one case, her ovaries release two eggs at the time of ovulation, and both are fertilized and become embryos; this results in fraternal, or nonidentical, twins.
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Essentially, two of the triplets are monozygotic (identical) twins, sharing the same general DNA characteristics, while the third multiple was produced by a different egg/sperm combination and has a unique genetic makeup from the other two triplets.
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The Science of Identical Triplets and Quadruplets. ... Identical siblings are much more rare: Only about one in 250 births is identical twins, according to a 2003 study in the Journal of Biosocial Science. Identical triplets are even less common, occurring about 20 to 30 times per 1 million births, the study found.
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The most common variety of quadruplets is formed when four separate eggs are fertilised by four separate sperm. ... One fertilised egg splits into three identical embryos and another separate egg is fertilised by a separate sperm. This means there are identical triplets plus one.
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1﻿ At the same time, some moms of twins and triplets say they have no morning sickness. With second pregnancies and on, around 15% of women reported more morning sickness with multiples than with previous single pregnancies.
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Twins being born with different fathers is an extremely rare occurrence known as heteropaternal superfecundation. Women usually have to have sex with two different men within a day before or after ovulation for both eggs to be fertilised.
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Twins are more common for older mums because they are more prone to produce multiple eggs in a cycle than younger women, a Dutch study has found. Increases in fertility treatment could not, on its own, explain the rate of births of non-identical twins.
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Women often have a 10 to 20 percent chance of getting pregnant with just one IUI cycle. The more cycles of IUI you undergo, the higher the chance is for a pregnancy. With 3 to 6 cycles of IUI, pregnancy rates can be as high as 80 percent.
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22, 2007 — -- The chances of having quadruplets is about one in 800,000. The chances of having a set of identical quadruplets is one in 11 million to 15 million. On Aug. 12, four babies beat the odds and broke a record at the same time.