Belgium is not following this global trend. With us, there has even been a decrease: in 2010, 1.9 percent of the babies were twins, in 2019 this fell to 1.6 percent.
Professor of Gynecology Isabelle Dehaene from UZ Gent was a guest in the radio program “De Wereld Today” (Radio 1). She sees the statement in our country’s IVF policy: “Since 2003, IVF has only been reimbursed if it is linked to certain conditions. only one embryo may be transferred per cycle. In other countries there is no such restriction. ”The condition arose because the risk of complications, such as premature birth, is much higher in multiple births.
The number of naturally conceived twins has increased in our country. According to Professor Dehaene, this is because women start having children at an increasingly later age. “Your body has to produce more hormones to allow egg cells to mature, so there is a greater chance that just two of them are being stimulated at once and that you will have twins.”
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