More Mental Health Symptoms Suffered By Parents Following Multiple Birth Pregnancies

Mothers and fathers of twins conceived either spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technology (ART) suffer more mental health symptoms after delivery and one year later than do parents of singleton babies, according to research presented to the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona. However, the mothers of ART twins had fewer symptoms of depression before the birth than did mothers of twins conceived spontaneously.

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Filed under: Fertility on July 8th, 2008