Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 3 , Pages 578-585 , March 2008

Relationship and parenthood in IVF couples with twin and singleton pregnancies compared with spontaneous singleton primiparous couples—a prospective 5-year follow-up study

  • Gunilla Sydsjö, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Gunilla Sydsjö, Ph.D., Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, S-581 85 Linköping, Sweden (FAX: +46 13 148156).
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  • Marie Wadsby, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
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  • Adam Sydsjö, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
    • ,
  • Katarina Ekholm Selling, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Received 24 November 2006 ,Revised 21 March 2007 ,Accepted 21 March 2007.

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 Supported by grants from the Research Fund of the County Council in the South East Sweden.

PII: S0015-0282(07)00793-5

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.064

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 3 , Pages 578-585 , March 2008

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