You are at a sporting event with your family with a lot of loud cheering people.   There is a family in the row ahead of you with infant triplets that are not happy with the sound level and the two parents seems to be having trouble comforting all three of them. Each is holding a baby but there is the third baby laying crying in the stroller.  The ( Read more... )

Congratulations! You are giving birth to a set of adorable twins! However, it turns out that the twins are conjoined in such a way that would make separation surgery life threatening. The doctors tell you that in order to attempt the surgery, it needs to be done when the children are young, ideally preformed when the twins are between the ages ( Read more... )

After several rounds of unsuccessful fertility treatments, you discover that you (or your partner) have become pregnant with sextuplets through IUI. Your doctor says that the chance of all six babies growing to term and being born healthy is nearly zero, and suggests that you undergo selective reduction of at least two, if not four, of the fetuses ( Read more... )

You have a set of identical twins attending first grade in a district where twins aren't automatically spit up. They've shared a class for two years. One twin is doing very poorly and needs to repeat the grade, but the other is passing and can move on to the second grade ( Read more... )

Congratulations!! You're pregnant!! You go in for your ultrasound and, wow...you are the 1 in approximately 200,000 mothers who is expecting conjoined twins. How about that? They share a kidney, liver, and lung, and lower intestine but everything else is developing separately ( Read more... )

What, if anything, do you think you would do differently as a parent if you had twins, triplets, or higher-order multiples, versus just one baby at a time? Or, if you've been there, done that, what did you do differently?

In your opinion, how important is it to definitively determine the zygosity of twins - whether they are identical or fraternal?

Do you believe that identical twins are "cooler" than fraternal twins?

The only survivor out of the Morrison sextuplets, born at 22 weeks in June, is going home soonHow would you even begin to explain to a child that he had five siblings who shared his birthday, but they all died? How would you celebrate your surviving son's birthday? Would you visit the grave sites of the five siblings? Would you do something to ( Read more... )

If a family already had a set of higher order multiples due to fertility drugs (or not- it can happen naturally), but wanted to go back on them and get preggers again, would you think they were crazy? I would, and do ( Read more... )

Say you donated a lot of money to a family that was expecting sextuplets or septuplets, but only one or two of the babies survived.  Would you want your money back?

If a family expecting higher order multiples receives a free SUV or house, but only a couple of the babies survive, should they give those expensive items back?  Does it make a ( Read more... )