{"id":131914,"date":"2019-10-14T04:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=131914"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T16:47:36","slug":"over-500-multi-births-in-first-six-months-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/over-500-multi-births-in-first-six-months-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 multi-births in first six months of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Twins-born-in-RD-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Twins-born-in-RD-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Twins-born-in-RD-Listin-Diario-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The public hospitals of the Dominican Republic have received a total of 532 multiple births during the first six months of this year. As of August, the three main maternity hospitals in Greater Santo Domingo have recorded 267 sets of twins and 5 sets of triplets or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 15 years, Dominican medical records show the births of two sextuplets, born on December 2005 at the General Hospital at the Plaza de la Salud, with all surviving, and in 2015, at the Reynaldo Almanzar in the Ciudad Sanitaria in which five babies survived. As of August, the Reynaldo Almanzar Hospital had covered 90 births of twins and one of more than two. The San Lorenzo Maternity Hospital in Los Mina has registered 71 sets of twins and one set of triplets. At the Altagracia Maternity Hospital, the largest in the Caribbean, 108 multi-births of twins and more were recorded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International standards indicate that one in every 250 pregnancies can be twins, one in every 10,000 might be triplets and one in every 700,000 pregnancies might be quads. According to doctors, fertility treatments are the leading cause of a multiple pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/10\/12\/586540\/hospitales-practicaron-532-partos-multiples\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public hospitals of the Dominican Republic have received a total of 532 multiple births during the first six months of this year. As of August, the three main maternity hospitals in Greater Santo Domingo have recorded 267 sets of twins and 5 sets of triplets or more. Over the past 15 years, Dominican medical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/over-500-multi-births-in-first-six-months-of-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131967,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131914\/revisions\/131967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}