Triplet Pregnancies

Well, Triplet pregnancy is nearly remarkable. But then who can confer God himself to be any less remarkable. Triplet pregnancy is getting relatively commoner by the day. There was a time 4 of out of ten thousand mothers carried triplets, since last decade such cases are on a high.

Triplet pregnancy does not come easy. There are various complications apart from the prenatal and neonatal upheavals. Let’s take up the symptoms first. Triplet pregnancy results in huge amount of morning sickness with associated attributes of vomiting and nausea. Even the resulting stomach cramps and pain in the pelvis are of high proportions, sometimes tending toward the unbearable. Chest-burn is compounded and assumes dreadful course.

Apart from the morning sickness, there is also the added worry of excessive fatigue to counter. Mothers with triplets hardly get the chance to stand on their feet with firmness. All through the prenatal period of gestation, mothers suffering from such pregnancy feel a muscular shakiness which can take on the traits of passing out.

The enhanced rate of triplet pregnancies these days can be aligned to the increasingly popular fertility treatments. Fertility drugs encourage ovulation in such a way that more than an egg travels towards a male sperm. With the fertilization of multiple eggs, the chances of twin or triplet pregnancy becomes higher.

Another reason is in vitro fertilization. This technique implies the fertilization of eggs outside the body and its subsequent implantation into a mother’s uterus. In such cases doctors transfer more than an egg to the uterus so that chances of fertilization become higher. Sometimes though, contrary to what they largely expect, more than an egg begins to develop leading to multiple pregnancies.

Added heartbeats, greater weight for mothers can help in the diagnosis of such pregnancies.