The birth of more than one baby or young animal from a single pregnancy.
multiple births are more common than ever before
mass noun the use of these medications increases the risk of multiple birth
Example sentencesExamples
- The incidence of multiple births increases with the age of the mother.
- Multiple births can cause complications during pregnancy.
- Intrauterine insemination alone does not increase the risk of multiple birth.
- There was an increased risk to the babies' health because it was a multiple birth.
- All multiple births must be delivered in hospitals.
- During the pregnancy, they were told of the risks of proceeding with the multiple birth.
- In four generations, the family have not been able to trace any other multiple births.
- Doctors expect to see more multiple births as women wait until later in life to have children.
- Both multiple births were unaided by any sort of fertility treatment.
- The increase in multiple births due to fertility treatments has caused concern among doctors.