can i ask another twins question?

taurus424 · September 2010

Just out of curiosity how many ladies have concieved their twin babies without any RE assistance. It doesn't happen that often right?? Just wondering after reading the other twins post.

Bakes4u · September 2010

From what I read online it is very rare to conceive twins if you haven't had fertility treatment or it doesn't run in your family. But also still possible

IU_baby · September 2010

Age is a factor as well. The older the mother, the chances of twins are increased.

AMYRENEE27 · September 2010

I am pregnant with twins. We have had no fertility treatments and it does not run in our family. At first glance my doctor thinks they are identical.

jackier26 · September 2010

I think I read too that if you are just coming off BCPs your chances are slightly increased.

JUSTBEYOURSELF · September 2010

even though I did us fert. drugs and did ivf twins do run in my family on my moms side.

alliejoe · September 2010

jackier26:
I think I read too that if you are just coming off BCPs your chances are slightly increased.

There is no history of twins in my family, but MW subscribes to this theory and thinks that how/why we conceived twins with my last pregnancy.

flutepharm87 · September 2010

I had absolutely no assistance (except charting to determine my O date). Completely spontaneous, and twins don't run in my family either. They appear to share a placenta, so they're most likely identical and we couldn't be more thrilled!

MrsDL · September 2010

AMYRENEE27:
I am pregnant with twins. We have had no fertility treatments and it does not run in our family. At first glance my doctor thinks they are identical.

I've actually read that identical twins do not run in families - one fertilized embryo splitting to form identical twins is a random chance of nature. Fraternal twins run in families - apparently the liklihood of women producing more than one egg each cycle naturally occurs in families. Interesting stuff.

calm_angel_2003 · September 2010

I beg to differ with the statement that identical twins do not run in families because my aunt had identical twins and my mom had identical twins without any fertility treatments.

MrsH_08 · September 2010

My RE explained that each and every pregnancy has the exact same chance of becoming identical twins (1 in 250), regardless of family history. But I've always wondered if there's a genetic link of any kind, making it any more likely. Fraternal twins, of course, would only be linked to family if it's on the woman's side b/c she ovulated 2 eggs.

shanlubey · September 2010

No treatments, no BCP before BFP, does not run in the family,.. Pretty much, we had no chance of twins. I got PG with fraternal twins, and my doctor says it's completely spontaneous and very unlikely.

BabymakesFIVE10 · September 2010

jackier26:
I think I read too that if you are just coming off BCPs your chances are slightly increased.

I'm 22, no fertility treatment, was off bcp for 1 cycle, only 1 set of twins in my family(my great grandmother had fraternal siblings..its WAYYY out there..lol). I actually had vanishing twin syndrome though so no twins now.

jjjgibson · September 2010

IU_baby:
Age is a factor as well. The older the mother, the chances of twins are increased.

true. also, if your BMI is 30 or higher, you have a higher probability of twins.

Eris-Alexis · September 2010

While we did use fertility treatments (one cycle of extremely low dose Clomid), twins do run in my family, which I think it really what did it for us. I just got confirmation that ours are fraternal as well (two eggs, one from each ovary in my case).

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