Wasn't there a case in Louisiana (in the past year) where twins were delivered a month or two apart? More recently, a set of sextuplets, yes, sextuplets, were delivered over a period of a week at Spectrum Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI (just this past week actually). They are surviving with various premie related problems (underdeveloped respiratory and digestive systems), but doctors are confident they will all go home with no major health or developmental problems other than, as my son's neonatologist once told me, "catching up with where they're supposed to be". This was the mother's first pregnancy and an IVF. Aint medical science something? Jodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: Re: twins question
> On 21 Jan 2004, Kathleen Kleissler wrote: > > > A colleague is wondering if what a student told her can possible be > > true: this person says that he is a twin to an sibling born 4 months > > after him. Does anyone know if this can possibly be true? > > > > Interesting question. I first checked my favourite source for such > matters, Alan Guttmacher's ancient but still useful bible of > pregnancy and birth (_Pregnancy, birth and family planning_, 1973). > Guttmacher says that some twins are born "many weeks or even months > apart". He cites, without reference, an Australian case where they > were born 56 days apart. He also says that in these cases the "almost > infallible rule" is that the woman has a double uterus with a > pregnancy in each. > > Encouraged, I search Google for "double uterus" and "twins", and it > produced.....Cecil Adams, the Straight Doper, answering the question > "Can twins be born a month or two apart?". Yes, he says, and he adds > that not all are cases of double uteri. He mentions the Australian > case referred to by Guttmacher (which was a double uterus case) and > (uncharacteristically) even provides a reference to a published > report of six cases where twin delivery was intentionally delayed, > one for 93 days. > > On the other hand, your student's claim of 4 months delay does seem > a tad long to be believed. Adams cites an "informal claim" of 95 days > as the record. > > Ol' Cec's essay is at http://www.straightdope.com/columns/021108.html > > Stephen > > ___________________________________________________ > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 > Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at > http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm > _______________________________________________ > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
