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It is very common for twins to be born at a low birth weight. More than half of twins are born weighing less than 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg), while the average birth weight of a healthy baby should be around 6–8 pounds (3–4 kg). [72] This is largely due to the fact that twins are typically born premature.
Abby and Brittany Hensel. Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are American conjoined twins. They are dicephalic parapagus twins (having two heads joined to one torso), and are highly symmetric for conjoined twins. Each has a heart, stomach, spine, pair of lungs, and spinal cord.
Multiple birth. A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets.
Monochorionic twins are monozygotic (identical) twins that share the same placenta. If the placenta is shared by more than two twins (see multiple birth ), these are monochorionic multiples. Monochorionic twins occur in 0.3% of all pregnancies. [ 1] Seventy-five percent of monozygotic twin pregnancies are monochorionic; the remaining 25% are ...
Camille and Kennerly dressed as elves while filming a video for their Lord of the Rings soundtrack medley. Camille and Kennerly perform as the rock and Celtic harp duo the Harp Twins; they are best known for their duet arrangements of contemporary songs from artists including Iron Maiden, Kansas, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Rihanna, Guns N' Roses, Coldplay ...
The Bella Twins were an American professional wrestling tag team that performed in WWE and consisted of identical twin sisters Brie Bella and Nikki Bella. Each of the Bella Twins are former WWE Divas Champions. Brie was the first twin in WWE to win the title, while Nikki won it twice with her second reign of 301 days being the longest reign for ...
The twins were given a 20 percent chance of survival at birth. [2] At birth at B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre, they were described as "wriggly, vigorous and very vocal". [3] They weighed 12 and a half pounds (5.7 kg) [4] when they were born by Caesarean section.
Baby weighed as appropriate for gestational age. Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at their birth. [ 1] The average birth weight in babies of European and African descent is 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb), with the normative range between 2.5 and 4.0 kilograms (5.5 and 8.8 lb). [ 2]