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A woman has babies. That is, she gave birth to multiple babies at the same time, and now she, with help from her husband, has to figure out how the heck to deal with this many kids at once. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
A woman has babies. That is, she gave birth to multiple babies at the same time, and now she, with help from her husband, has to figure out how the heck to deal with this many kids at once. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
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This trope came to prominence because of the relatively high chance of multiple births in the early days of in vitro technology. This was due to the procedure (no longer practiced by most above-board facilities) of implanting multiple embryos under the assumption that only one would actually take. While this is the extreme version of the trope, more down-to-earth works of fiction can still play this up with twins. |
This trope came to prominence because of the relatively high chance of multiple births in the early days of in vitro technology. This was due to the procedure (no longer practiced by most above-board facilities) of implanting multiple embryos under the assumption that only one would actually take. While this is the extreme version of the trope, more down-to-earth works of fiction can still play this up with twins. |
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== [[Anime and Manga]] == |
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* For a darker [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] of this, many cultures view the birth of twins as a bad omen, which may lead to them being killed shortly after birth. |
* For a darker [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] of this, many cultures view the birth of twins as a bad omen, which may lead to them being killed shortly after birth. |
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* Then there's Nadya Suleman, the "Octomom," so called because of a dead-straight example of the "in vitro [[Gone Horribly Right]]" version resulting in the second set of surviving octuplets in US history (and first set where all members survived longer than a week.) Normally that many are ''not'' implanted, but she has said that the alternative was that the unused embryos would be destroyed. This adds to the six kids she had ''already,'' those ''not'' at once. |
* Then there's Nadya Suleman, the "Octomom," so called because of a dead-straight example of the "in vitro [[Gone Horribly Right]]" version resulting in the second set of surviving octuplets in US history (and first set where all members survived longer than a week.) Normally that many are ''not'' implanted, but she has said that the alternative was that the unused embryos would be destroyed. This adds to the six kids she had ''already,'' those ''not'' at once. |
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* However, she's not within a light-year of the record, set in the 1700s: [ |
* However, she's not within a light-year of the record, set in the 1700s: [[wikipedia:Feodor Vassilyev|Feodor Vassilyev]]'s wife and the ''69'' children she had over her lifetime ''laugh'' at the Sulemans' measly 14. If each of the 67 who survived infancy had ''two'' kids each (that's on the far low end for that era), Feodor likely has 70,000 descendants by this point. |
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* While ''[[Nineteen Kids and Counting (TV)|Nineteen Kids and Counting]]'' isn't exactly this trope (she obviously didn't have all 19 kids at once, she does have 2 sets of twins. |
* While ''[[Nineteen Kids and Counting (TV)|Nineteen Kids and Counting]]'' isn't exactly this trope (she obviously didn't have all 19 kids at once, she does have 2 sets of twins. |
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