After decades of steady climbing, the birth rate for twins fell in the US for the first time since the 1980s, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2018 twin birth rate was the lowest in a decade, dropping 4% between 2014 and 2018, the report found.
Experts say the decline is due to better technology for fertility treatment procedures, which was the reason for the decades of increased twin birth rates to begin with: From 1980 to a peak in 2007, twin birth rates more than doubled. From 2007 to 2014, the number fluctuated before steadily declining over the past five years.
And while this cuts down on the cute factor, experts say it’s actually a health win, since twins are “more likely to be born too early and too small and are more likely to die in the first year of life [than] singletons,” Martin says.
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