Learning About Multiple Pregnancy
Multiply pregnancy is a pregnancy with two or more fetuses. Names for these include: Twins (two fetuses), Triplets (three fetuses), Quadruplets (four fetuses), Quintuplets (fives fetuses), among others.
With a digital graphic, Dr. Victoria Bedell, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida , explains how is the process in the case of dizygotic twins and the monozygotic twins.
Heredity, older age, high parity and race can cause multiple pregnancy, the expert affirms.