Ch.+21+Infants+mortality,+twins

Infant Mortality, Twins


 * Igbo women, when that are pregnant, would secretly pray that they don't have twins.
 * Having twins is considered and abomination and the worst thing that can happen to a Igbo women.
 * The rate of twin births in West Africa is about four times higher than in the rest of the world.
 * The high twin birth rates was effected by some unsanitary methods involved in providing infants with supplementary foods.
 * The "twin zone" is located in a southwestern town in Nigeria, more twins are born here than anywhere else in the world.

 ** ''Whilst twins could be considered the result of providence, other local people attribute the predominance of twins to tradition. Meanwhile, others believe it to be diet.'' media type="youtube" key="lOMEFUucPkI" height="344" width="425" **   Igbo children singing and dancing http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/26/1/7
 * [[image:boys-mozambique.jpg width="274" height="366"]] || [[image:Yoruba_woman_holding_twins.jpg width="293" height="369"]] ||
 * Igbo children with poor living conditions. || Igbo women holding her two twins ||


 * Its said that a high level of a chemical found in the Igbo women and the peeling of tuber (yams) account for the high level of twins.
 * Twin births among the Nigerian Igbo women is one in 35.5 or 28.2 per 1000 births.
 * Approximately 40% of the children born to the sample of women did not survive
 * Having a twin is a bad thing when your a Igbo women because income was low and living was harsh and it was hard to supply for your twins.
 * Between 1972-82 recored an average of 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1000 births.

Work Cited: I, Adinma J. "Multiple births in Nigerian Igbo women: incidence and outcomes." Web. .

"The Land of Twins." //World Services//. 7 June 2001. Web. 5 Nov. 2009. .

Ezeh, P. J. "Eteng and the Igbo." Jan.-Feb. 2005. Web. 6 Nov. 2009. .