Question to all of you expecting twins...

mommypixie · June 2012

I think it's amazing we have so many moms expecting twins. My question is how many of you are expecting through IVF and how many are you aren't?

My friends that have done IVF have all had multiples. I'm curious what the percentage is of non-IVF twins.

MangomamaFL · June 2012

My twins are non-IVF. They are fraternal. I didn't realize that I had multiples in my family tree until after my twins were born. My dad had cousins who were a set of triplets (my grandfather's sister had triplets). One of my grandparents also has an aunt who lost a set of twins due to being thrown from a horse.

As of right now I don't know if I am carrying multiples. If I am they are non-IVF too.

KatieJ113 · June 2012

All natural here!

lorinda25 · June 2012

natural for me here too, my grandmother had twins but lost one when he was 6 months old, and my husband's mother was pregnant with twins but lost one before birth.

weddinginbloom · June 2012

We had an IUI cycle with a medication, Clomid, that can make you ovulate more than one egg, so it is most likely due to that. This was our fourth time and we would have moved on to IVF if I hadn't gotten pregnant. For this procedure the dr. told us the chances of getting pregnant with twins were 1 in 200. He was shocked that it was twins too!

But it is also interesting that there are twins on my mother's side of the family...

nattn · June 2012

Aren't twins only carried down from the father's side? I couple of you mentioned twins on your side but I thought twins are either from dad or identical which are just random.

Reyka9 · June 2012

Not expecting twins here (that I know of!) but my BFF just gave birth to non-IVF twins in May. No twins on either side of the family, it was a complete shock.

Brummy14 · June 2012

Non IVF, but we were going through injections for IF treatments -- so technically just the step below IVF (and the version of treatment where there's far less control over the number of potential babies. Yikes)

rinascita · June 2012

Non-IVF twins here... no history of twins in my family... that we know of - my father was adopted and doesn't have any biological family history.

tombomb84 · June 2012

We did not do IVF. However, we are pregnant with twins via my 5th IUI cycle which was a clomid/injectables hybrid cycle. The chances of twins on clomid alone are about 10%, but the chances with injectables is 30% so we knew it was possible.

financialdiva · June 2012

nattn:
Aren't twins only carried down from the father's side? I couple of you mentioned twins on your side but I thought twins are either from dad or identical which are just random.

Identical twins (come from one egg that splits) are spontaneous and are not hereditary.

Fraternal twins (when they come from two separate eggs) are only hereditary through the mothers side since the mother has to hyper ovulate (release more than one egg). Father's genetics and heredity have nothing to do with whether the mother releases more than one egg.

Yellow415 · June 2012

nattn:
Aren't twins only carried down from the father's side? I couple of you mentioned twins on your side but I thought twins are either from dad or identical which are just random.

Nope, it's the mothers side. Females carry the genetic twin gene, not males.

amh04 · June 2012

Our twins are non IVF/non IF medication. We are pretty sure they are identical at this point in time - but we'll know more after our dating u/s and NT scan at the end of the month.

There are absolutely no twins that run on my side of the family at all, and the only twins on DH's side of the family is from his Great-Grandpa.

Whitney915 · June 2012

We did an iui with clomid I knew there was a possibility of twins but I never really entertained the possibility!

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