Triplets, quads, and other multi-baby births are getting rarer

Do you know any quintuplets? What about quads? Triplets, even? The answer to all those is much less likely to be “yes” going forward than it was at the turn of the century.

According to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, cited in a new report from the CDC, triplet and higher-order multiple births have fallen by 62% since 1998, with the decline rising to 79% for births with four or more babies. Mostly, researchers are pointing to advancements and newer guidelines around in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to explain the drop-off in the multi-baby birth rate.

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