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Twins with Special Needs/Multiple Births

Background

Over ten thousand multiple births occur in the UK each year. A significant percentage of multiple births are premature (before thirty-seven weeks gestation) and this can be a factor in the predisposition to some forms of disability. Twins, triplets or more present special problems of care. However, where one child in a pair of twins has a disability the problems are multiplied and stress is immeasurably increased.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor Michael Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated February 2005 by the Twins and Multiple Births Association (TAMBA).

 

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