We have a graphic that I want to show
our viewers real quick this is kind of
like education 101 on multiple births
but the first thing is of course
twins and that would be two fetuses
ladies, right? Then we have triplets,
quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplet, and septuplets, I
can't even imagine pass the triplets...
>Yeah the lower you go on that list you
really don't come across those very
often yeah they're almost always they
involve fertility treatments. >Exactly and
that is a lot of work right there and
then I think it's great to talk about
how identical versus fraternal the
process is different and I just love
educating our public and they love
learning these things as well I want to
show graphic and maybe, Victoria, you can
show us what's going on here in terms of
what happens in terms of the difference
between identical and fetus, so if we
can take that and we can show the
difference between both, let's see if we
have that graphic there it is right
there. >Yes, absolutely so as you see on
the left is dizygotic twins that's
another term for fraternal so that
involves two eggs being released by the
mother and meeting with two separate
sperm so they're really not...
there's no splitting it's just two
separate pregnancies that are happening
at the same time and then on the right
is the monozygotic twins or really more
well known as identical where one egg
and one sperm comes together and then
splits you however many ways so in this
picture it's twins but it can split
further into three, four for triplets,
quadruplets, etc
>Fantastic and we also have what are the
causes of multiples and we have a
graphic here that maybe y'all could
chime in on: Heredity? >Yeah so sometimes
you might hear about this that twins or
triplets can run in families that's
typically more so with fraternal twins
they skip generations so like us there
are no other multiples in our family
identicals are totally spontaneous, women
that are over 30 have a higher incidence
of having multiple births and there are
actually certain races that are a little
more common to have identicals,
African-americans have a higher
incidence of twinning... >And Asian
have particularly low rates of twinning
for whatever reason.
