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2-for-1 is no baby bargain, doctors say
Yet couples struggling to conceive often wish to see double — or more

By Lorie A. Parch
MSNBC.com
June 20, 2007


For couples struggling to conceive a child, news of becoming pregnant with multiples following infertility treatment is often cause for celebration. Some even wish for it.

“I hear that frequently: ‘I want twins. I don’t want to pay for this again.’ The two-birds-with-one-stone thing,” says Dr. Robert Stillman, medical director of Shady Grove Fertility Center in Washington, D.C., and a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. “They see twins in a stroller at Starbucks and think, ‘I’ve been at this for four years. Why not just do this two at a time?’”

But the truth is that having multiples — even twins — comes with significant health risks, and the cost of their care can be staggering.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17937811/