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A woman carrying twins can be offered a choice almost nobody expects to face: reduce the pregnancy to one baby, or continue with both. Twin pregnancies carry higher risks of miscarriage, of the babies arriving too early, and of dangerous rises in the mother's blood pressure, and reduction is offered on the argument that a single baby has a safer pregnancy ahead of it. That conversation is hard for an obvious reason and for a less obvious one: the numbers behind it are scattered. Studies disagree about when in the pregnancy the procedure was done, about how it was done, and about which outcomes were worth reporting at all, so the risk a woman is quoted can depend on which paper her clinician read most recently. This project gathers those studies and produces one set of figures for the outcomes the conversation actually turns on: losing the pregnancy, how early the babies arrive, how much they weigh, and the mother's blood pressure.
Read up on twin pregnancy and what fetal reduction involves. Help run the search, screen studies against the criteria, extract the pregnancy and newborn outcomes, and write a section of the paper.
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