Hey bees, I was wondering if any of you are twins. My husband and I each have twin sisters, mine is a minute younger than me and his is two minutes older than him. Do you think you might have twins? Do they run in your family?
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I have an uncle who has twin boys but sadly no other twins in the family...I wouldn't mind having a set of twins, but the chance of that is likely very slim in our case.
I've heard that twins skip a generation. Is that true?
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It's not necessarily that twins skip a generation, rather, it's that the daughters of twins are more likely to have twins than twins themselves. I read a study that explained that twins were more often born to women who were of a larger size, from the East Coast, over the age of 35, were taller than 5'6" and some other characteristics. Of the 7, we realized that I met 5 of the 7 (not older than 35 or from the East Coast) and both of us were twins. We figure out that my odds for having twins was something like 1/5, so we'll see.
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Ahh, I see...that's a pretty good possibility for you!
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No twins here. When I was younger I used to think I would love having twins. But now that I know how much day care costs... I'm terrified of having twins!!
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I have a twin brother, but the product of fertility treatment rather than natural. I don't have any special relationship with my twin brother (I am closer to my other brother), but I would still love to have twins. I don't anticipate it though.
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No twins in our family, but I had a dream I as having them! (I'm not though, only one in there!).
My friend just had twins (well 6 months ago now!) and there are no twins in her family. She ovulated twice. So she got pregnant, then 2 weeks later ovulated again, and got pregnant again!
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My husband has a twin sister. Don't know what that means for the possibility of us having twins. I don't think I'd want twins though because even though they share a special bond I can't imagine raising two infants of the same age at the same time!
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I've teased my DH A lot about having twins, but it's not likely. Up until the day of my ultrasound I continued to tease about it.
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I'm a daughter of a twin, so I know there's a possibility I'll have twins. My grandmother was 40 when she had the twins, though, so I think her age probably had more to do with it than a genetic predisposition to have twins.
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I'm a twin! I have an identical sister...though I'm not 100% sure if we're identical or not. Back when we were born things were a bit less sophisticated as to how they determined if you were identical or fraternal and wasn't always accurate. We always believed that we were, so I'm happy to keep thinking it! The weird thing is that on my mother's side there are seven sets of twins - all same sex sets and believed to be identical. But when I read about this, I read that identical twins are not hereditary, only fraternal are. So either we're all actually fraternal and the doctors were wrong in every case or there's something strange going on in my family! Either way, I'd love to have twins. It was so fun growing up as one! We're not TTC yet, but I will definitely be excited about that possibility
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I'm an identical twin!
I remember the day that I realized that Charlie would grow up without a twin. I was devastated for days! It is an indescribable bond.
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@mrbee: I know! I feel like singlets miss out! I know that they can have equally as meaningful relationships with their siblings, but still. It really is indescribable.
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Growing up I always wished I had a twin sister. When I got older I started to daydream about having twins. Now I don't know if I could handle double the work.
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@MrsBeach: I've heard that too, that fraternal twins are hereditary and identical twins aren't. I don't have anything to back that up though.
My grandma (mom's mom) had triplets, and 9 single births besides that. A lot of her siblings had fraternal twins. Her siblings' grandkids have at least one set of twins, but I'm not super close to them, it could be more. But none of my mom's siblings had twins. So it's definitely possible that it skips a generation? If it's all true then I'm all set to have triplets... ha. I tease FI about it all the time
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I have three sets of twins in my family, all cousins.
DH was actually a twin but his twin did not make it and was lost early in pregnancy. DH's siblings are triplets, there where 4 babies originally but once again his mother lost one early in pregnancy. Hers were natural and not a result of fertility treatment or anything. -
No twins anywhere in my family that I'm aware of! I also don't know of any on DH's side.
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@PitBullLover - You should be safe on the twin thing
Fraternal twins can run in families because there's a gene that causes women to release more than one egg during a regular cycle. So your husband's sister likely has a better-than-average chance of having fraternal twins, but you wouldn't. -
I have three sets of twin cousins! One of each, boy/boy, girl/girl and boy/girl. And another cousin (not a twin herself) just recently had twins.
At my work there are 4 sets of twins.
I'm surrounded
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My nephews are fraternal twins. I think that twins run in my SIL's family. After seeing them manage twins and now an infant, I don't want twins, same with my husband.
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No twins in my family, however my cousin just announced last month that she is having them! Neither her nor her husband have them on their side. I've had dreams several times that we have twins (which I'm okay with) however it is very unlikely. I think if I'm going to get them I want to start with them not end with them
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My FIL is a fraternal twin (he has a twin sister). There are no twins on my side of the family though so DH and I won't have any increased chance (although I honestly don't think I'd mind twins).
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My grandma had a fraternal twin sister; my husband has a twin sister too. Growing up I always wished that *I* had a twin! I imagined it would be so much fun to have a built in best friend like that... though in reality, my husband and his sister are not very close.
As for having twins myself- part of me thinks it would be really fun, and part of me is scared of how much work it would be. As of now we are looking at trying IVF and probably having 2 embryos transferred, which means it would be a possibility... so I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
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my brother and sister are twins, and my great grandmother on my mom's side had 2 sets of twins!
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New studies are showing that identical twins can have a genetic component as there are families with many sets.
As far as not knowing if a set of twins (same gender) are identical... if they have the same blood type you can order a DNA test that involves a mouth swap and find out for sure
I am due in April with 2 boys... they are Di/Di twins, meaning 2 sacs and 2 placentas... which is an indication that they are fraternal; but there is a 30% chance they are identical.
Fraternal twins also don't "skip" a generation as a rule... it just seems like they do as naturally conceived fraternal twins result from the mother hyper-ovulating... A father with twins in his family could pass the gene to his daughter but would not have an increased likely hood of conceiving fraternal twins based on his genetics alone.
Having twins definitely changes the game a lot... I live in Chicago and childcare for 2 is about going to break us. We'll make it though!
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