Peripartum complications of undiagnosed twin pregnancy at KBTH, Accra, Ghana

Abstract

The inevitability of death means that successful procreation is the major key to the survival of any species of living organism. Underlying fulfilment of the simple commandment to humankind "to multiply and fill the earth" are very complex and elaborate processes that begin with germ cell production and end with the successful birth of a child who survives the neonatal period and grows to adulthood to reproduce his/her kind. Equally important in this regard is the survival of the mother in the process of childbirth. Several factors, some modifiable others not, interplay to affect the success of the processes involved in procreation. These factors behave like "time-bombs" programmed to go off at an "appointed time" to cause fetal and/or maternal loss or impair successful fetal development.