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Further Development of Children from Multiple Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Z. Ochabska
Z. Ochabska*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Silesian Academy of Medicine, Bytom, Poland

Abstract

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This study has aimed at assessing the psychomotor development of children from multiple pregnancy after full-term and premature births. A total of 166 children aged 6 months to 12 years were examined, including 70 pairs of twins, 2 sets of triplets, and 20 more children from multiple pregnancies of which only one child had survived.

A body weight below 10 percentiles was in 17%, and stature deficiency in 23% of children. The psychomotor development was arrested in 13%. Most of the children (18 out of 23) with arrested psychomotor development had a low body weight at birth and a complicated course of the neonatal period, as well as serious general illnesses in the infantile period.

Type
2. Twin Postnatal Development
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 22 , supplement S1 , October 1972 , pp. 109 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1972