All you need to know about having octuplets
1. How do octuplets happen?Not easily. Human females are designed to release one egg per month - even a release of two eggs, which could lead to twins, is unusual (that, after all, is why women have just the two nipples - in species where multiple births are common, the females are better endowed with feeding equipment). For a woman to conceive eight babies naturally, she would need to release maybe four or five eggs (extremely unlikely), and all or most of the eggs, once fertilised, would have to go on to split to form twins or triplets (again, this would be mind-bogglingly rare).What's more likely is for octuplets to be conceived as a result of fertility treatment, if a number of fertilised eggs were returned to the womb and these went on to split into two or three babies. (This couldn't happen in the UK, because a maximum of...
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