Quintuplets are a set of five babies born in one birth. A baby that is part of such a set is called a quintuplet and sometimes referred to as a "quint."
Quintuplets occur naturally in 1 in 55,000,000 births. The first quintuplets known to survive infancy were the identical female Canadian Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934. Quintuplets are sometimes referred to as "quins" in the UK and "quints" in North America.
– Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.
Octuplets are a set of eight offspring born at one birth. An individual that is part of such a set is called an octuplet.
Ten babies in a multiple birth are called decuplets. Terms used for the number of offspring in a multiple birth: two offspring – twins. three offspring – triplets.
If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
Septuplets (7)
The Frustaci septuplets (born 21 May 1985, in Orange, California) are the first septuplets to be born in the United States.
nonuplet (plural nonuplets) A group of nine, particularly (music) a tuplet of nine notes. coordinate terms ▼ One of a group of nine, particularly one of nine babies born from the same mother at one time.
Nonuplets: Woman From Mali Gives Birth To 9 Babies.
Noun. Irish twin (plural Irish twins) (rare, slang, offensive) Either of a pair of siblings born less than 12 months apart, especially if born within the same calendar year or school year or born one year apart. quotations ▼synonym ▲ Synonym: Catholic twin.
The term “Irish twins” refers to one mother having two children who were born 12 months or less apart. It originated in the 1800s as a way to poke fun at Irish Catholic immigrant families who didn't have access to birth control.
It's technically possible for two siblings to be as close as 9 or 10 months apart. After your pregnancy comes to an end, you'll start ovulating again before you have your first postpartum period.
Quintuplets is for five babies. Sextuplets is for six babies. Septuplets is for seven babies. Octuplets is for eight babies.
The current record belongs to Nadya Suleman, an American woman who gave birth to eight babies in 2009. Dr. Amber Samuel, a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist in Texas, has only had one patient give birth to five babies.
Quaternary twins.
The two children don't share a parent or the same DNA. They're cousins but genetically, they're closer to siblings born to the same parents. Physically, the children might also look very similar. The popular term for this is “quaternary twins” as the two sets of parents share the same DNA.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb. "It's seven boys and three girls. I am happy.
On Dec. 13, this very large family was able to return home to Mali. The record-setting nonuplets (yes, that is nine babies born at once) have returned home to Mali from Morocco, where they spent the first 19 months of their life.
The largest set to have even a single member survive is octuplets, in 1998 (with the seven surviving octuplets born in Texas). There have been a few sets of nonuplets (nine) in which a few babies were born alive, though none lived longer than a few days.
Monoamniotic-monochorionic Twins
These types of twins share a chorion, placenta, and an amniotic sac. This is the rarest type of twin, and it means a riskier pregnancy as the babies can get tangled in their own umbilical cords.
Allegedly Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife, for another 18 children in eight births; he fathered a total of 87 children.
The happy household of a onetime tabloid curiosity.
What are mo/mo twins? Mo/mo is a shortened form of monochorionic monoamniotic. Mo/mo twins are those who share both the chorionic and amniotic sacs. Or to put it another way, since mono means “one,” a mo/mo pregnancy is one where there is one placenta and one amniotic sac for both babies.
The term mirror twin is used to describe a type of identical, or monozygotic, twin pairing in which the twins are matched as if they're looking into a mirror — with defining characteristics like birthmarks, dominant hands, or other features on opposite sides.