1. Multiple Births
... not have a chance of survival. There are many reported births of sexuplets (6), septuplets (7), octuplets (8), nonuplets (9), decaplets (10), undecaplets (11), duodecaplets (12), tridecaplets(13), Quadecaplets (14), and quindecaplets. The highest number of surviving babies is octuplets (Rugh 22). One of the rare types of twins is a conjoined twin, also called Siamese twins. Siamese is a term made famous ... oxygen for a certain amount of fetuses. Twins are more susceptible to birth defects, spontaneous mutations, and vascular problems that threaten early life (Wright 89). Simply being a...
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