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10 babies at same time

WHEN three children are born to a woman at the same time, we call them triplets and when there are four quadruplets.

WHEN three children are born to a woman at the same time, we call them triplets and when there are four quadruplets.

Decaplets are very rare - that is when 10 children are born at the same time! But it has happened - three times! The most recent case was in Brazil in 1946.

Most often, when that many children are born at the same time, some are too weak to survive. -

bigsiteofamazingfacts.com; mostonline.org; twinsandmultiples.org

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