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Hi, I'm new to this site and this is my first time pregnant, so this is all new to me, I was just wondering for those you you that are having twins, I was wondering what your hgc levels were and how far along were you at the time your blood was taken?.....I was just wondering because by OB was had me come it twice for far and I guess my numbers are almost doubling every day, I didn't know if this was something common with twins?
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Re: twins?
4 Fresh IVF cycles + 1 FET where embies didn't survive the thaw = 2 perfect little men!
sFET 11/9/11 - Beta 11/18 BFP!
Your husband having twins on his side has no bearing on whether or not you could have twins. You would have to have the gene to hyperovulate 2 or more eggs. Now if you have a daughter she could carry the gene which is why some say that twins skip a generation.
Your husband's lineage will not have any impact in your likelihood to have twins (he can't make you ovulate twice). I'm assuming you haven't done fertility treatments either? Beta doubling time usually just indicates that you have a healthy growing baby in there, not necessarily twins.
Unfortuantely you are going to have to just wait for 3 weeks to find out. But if I were you, I would just assume 1 baby for now.
4 Fresh IVF cycles + 1 FET where embies didn't survive the thaw = 2 perfect little men!
sFET 11/9/11 - Beta 11/18 BFP!
2 scenarios to help you out.
I am having twins. There are 4 sets of fraternal twins in my lineage (mom's dad's mom had 2 sets and two grandkids - now 3 I guess, have had sets). I didn't use any fertility drugs, I just hyperovulated and am having a set of twins (we are 99% sure they are fraternal). If you did get identical it's a fluke thing, not a heredity thing and not that common. I had my BETAS done at 17 and 19 DPO because I had an early miscarriage in the Fall. They were high 500 the first time and tripled 1500 in 2 days. I didn't think too much of it. I had my 8 week U/S and there were two.
My friend is having one. She has no fraternal twins in her lineage (that she knows of). She didn't use fertility drugs. She had her BETAS done and they were higher and more than tripled. She had an 8 week U/S and there was one.
You never really know until you have an U/S, but if you don't have genetics or fertility drugs and are relatively young, your chances of fraternal twins isn't that high. Hope that helped.
Brady Phoenix, 8.29.09
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