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Mothers worldwide have multiple births despite the odds

Mothers worldwide have multiple births despite the odds

Looking at a photo of the Rodger family prompts a strange sense that you might be seeing double.

The family from Glasgow, U.K. has two 14-year-old sons, two 12-year-old sons and now they have welcomed two little girls into their lives, according to the Telegraph. That's three sets of twins for parents Karen and Colin, and while the kids don't all look identical, there's no doubt this family grows in twos.

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The odds of having three separate sets of twins is about 500,000 to one, according to the story.

Another woman from Berkshire, U.K. beat even lower odds – 70 million to one – when she gave birth to quadruplets that consisted of two identical twin girls and two identical twin boys, according to the Telegraph.

The children were born after in vitro fertilization treatment, which has been linked to more multiple births than natural pregnancy. The babies weighed slightly more than 2 pounds each when they were born, according to the story.

Speaking of odds, a family in Utah might not be seeing double but they'll have their share of crying babies after giving birth to quintuplets, according to the Associated Press. Three girls and two boys joined the world with five medical staff members awaiting each baby's birth during the cesarean section, according to the story. The babies had no shortage of audience members for their big entrance.

Fertility drugs may have increased the odds of multiple births for those parents too.

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However, the quintuplets born in the Czech Republic on Sunday were conceived naturally, according to Agence France-Presse. Alexandra Kinova gave birth to the first set of quintuplets ever recorded in the Czech Republic's birth statistics, which date back as far as 1949, according to AFP.

Despite their tiny sizes, the headline babies in all of these cases were reported to be stable.

These parents should buy lottery tickets pronto.