Having Triplets or More

Having triplets may seem like something simple for someone that has not gone trough it. This can be considered either a triple blessing or a triple curse. Either way, as we can all imagine, having triplets is not an easy thing and any woman that has survived it will be able to tell you so. Parents of these multiple pregnancies could probably fill a website up with advice on how to care for triplets.

Remember that if you are pregnant with triplets or more, you will usually have to do the same a woman having twins does as far as the amount of care, food intake etc is concerned but on a greater scale.

Although it is true that most pregnancies with triplets go about without problems and that most of the times instead of just having one beautiful baby, you have three or more, the truth is that there are certain risks for the fetus’s and the mother. Because of this all doctors will ask the mothers to get more check us and to do additional sonograms.

Many more twins are conceived than those that are actually born. Several pregnancies that starts out as twins, end up being only one baby due to the fact that sometimes one of the fetuses never grows. In many cases, one of the fetuses disappears before the pregnancy has even been confirmed. The incidence of twin births is estimated of close to one percent of all births. But it has been confirmed that the amounts are increasing now due to the modern fertility techniques that exist now.

The ethnic precedence and the family history can increase your probabilities of having twins. There are certain women that are more predisposed to ovulating more than one ovule in the cycles. If there are twins in your family, let your doctor know.

The incidence of spontaneous triplets is much scarcer; it is around one out of every seven thousand. In the case of spontaneous quadruplets it is not a very common thing at all. However now due to all the infertility treatments that exist the incidence of triplets is being seen much more than in the past years.