More and more women who give birth are overweight or obese, Green says. These women have a much higher rate of complications like diabetes and hypertension, which can lead to earlier births.. Of the roughly 4 million deliveries in the U.S. in 2002, 394,996 were considered preterm, according to the analysis.
'One-in-a-million' conjoined twins born to Atlanta parents: Delighted mom and dad welcome girls who share the same arms, legs and body-and will never be separated. 1  Asa and Eli Hamby born on Thursday morning in Northside Hospital, Atlanta.
Irish Twins are not technically twins, which are two individuals that are born from the same gestation. Rather, it is a classifying siblings that are born in close proximity. Sometimes the use of the term Irish Twins is expanded to describe any siblings that are close in age. Some even stretch the definition to include siblings less than two years apart. (Some would call that almost Irish Twins or practically Irish Twins.)