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Parents of Twins More Likely to Suffer from Mental Problems
However, the mothers of ART twins had fewer symptoms of depression before the birth than did mothers of twins conceived spontaneously.
"This may be due to better counselling and preparation of infertile couples for twins. The good mental health during pregnancy may also reflect the couples' satisfaction with successful treatment and fulfilment of hopes for parenthood," Dr Leila Unkila Kallio, who is a senior consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics at Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki (Finland), said.
After birth, fathers of twins in both groups showed more depression, anxiety, social dysfunction and sleeping problems than did fathers of singletons.
Researchers studied ART parents of 91 twins and 367 singletons and control parents of 20 twins and 379 singletons (conceived spontaneously) at three time points: in the second trimester of pregnancy, when the children were two months old and when they were one year old.
Depressive symptoms, anxiety, sleeping difficulties and social dysfunction were measured using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ36).
During pregnancy, they found that ART mothers of twins had lower mean averages of depressive symptoms than the control mothers of twins but similar levels to the ART and control mothers of singletons.
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