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(redirected from Multiple pregnancies)

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All cases with incomplete records, implausible birth weight/gestational age combinations, major congenital anomalies, stillbirths, birth weights <500 g, diabetes, hypertension disorders, and multiple pregnancies were excluded.
Several family-level characteristics have been linked to multiple pregnancies during adolescence: having a poor mother-daughter relationship, (24) an unsupportive family, (16) and a mother who did not have a high school education (13) or who had been an adolescent parent herself.
Another woman told me that her selective reduction (a procedure used to terminate one or more fetuses in cases of multiple pregnancies, increasingly common with the use of infertility drugs and other assisted reproductive technologies as well as the desire to reduce the stress on women who don't want to carry multiples) wasn't an abortion, it was ordered by the doctor.
 
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