Just like the questions asks do twins (or more) run in your family? My cousin on my dad's side has a set but that is the only known set on either side of my family for the last several generations.
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I have a set of twin brothers, but they're identical. My mom says that my dad's great aunt had like 3 or 4 sets of twins, but my dad never talked about her, so I don't know.
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Three sets on my side and two on DHs
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My mom and her sister are fraternal twins. So are two of their uncles. And DH's cousin had a set of boy/girl twins, although that doesn't make us any more predisposed to having twins, since I believe it has to be on the mother's side?
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both sides
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Both sides. My maternal grandmother gave birth to stillborn twins and then 2 of my paternal aunts had twins and my cousin had twins as well.
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Not on my side. My MIL is a fraternal twin. And my BIL had triplets. They were through IVF, but two eggs were put in and one split creating the three.
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Two sets of b/g twins on DH's side. None anywhere in my family.
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My great grandma was a twin. That's all!
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Sort of? My sister and I both have twins, so from an outsider's perspective they "run in the family." However, both sets are IVF twins! I actually have twin cousins, and both my grandmas had sisters who were twins but they are all identical which isn't supposed to be genetic.
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No, but my husband's grandfather was a twin so my in laws were certain that it was skipping a generation and we'd have twins. When we bought our family car they said it was big enough for twins- I was 6 months pregnant with our single child at the time!
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There aren't any multiples in either of our families.
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@twodoghouse: I always wonder about the identical thing not being genetic. Both sets of identical twins I know come from families that have identical twins
I have friends I've known for life, both their mom and their mom's mom was an identical twin...3 generations in a row, how is that not some what genetic?
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Not in mine. DH is a twin but his mom did fertility treatments so twins don't actually run in the family.
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Yes in both our families, but my dr said only fraternal twins are hereditary.
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On my dad's side and now my sister has a set of them!
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Yes they do. But I really only know of my mom's brother and sister and my twins both fraternal. Dont know of any other family because my grandma didnt really talk about her family like at all
Eta. Funny story is I felt myself hyperovulate (sp?) And told my co worker that i felt pinching from both sides that I was thinking thats what was happening but didnt fully believe it until a few weeks later when they "found another baby in there" -
A little. My mother miscarried my twin but that's the only case outside of fertility treatments.
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Nope! But for some reason, my family always secretly wishes we did when we told them we were pregnant. We firmly told them it was a singleton, but they always so maybe! (O_o)
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@LuLu Mom: I've definitely heard about families where identicals are so common that there just has to be a genetic link. I've read some things on twin boards that suggest that some women's eggs are just more likely to split and/or some men's sperm are more likely to split an egg. If those properties have a genetic link, it may explain why identicals seem to run in families? I don't know much about the science behind it though.
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on DH's side. he is a twin and he has a set of twin cousins. i think there is a grandpa who is a twin as well!
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No twins on either side!
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Nope! My twins are through IVF.
@twodoghouse: Aww! Twins do run in your family! IVF twins! Sucks that you and your sister both had to go through IVF, though.
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Only distantly on both sides of my mom's family. One of her cousins (on her dad's side) had twin girls and one of her cousins (on her mom's side) had twin granddaughters. Probably came from the sides of the families not related to us.
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Nope, at least not in recent history. a few generations back on my moms side there were a set of fraternal twins, I think, and my second cousin has identical twins.
I keep joking to DH that when he knocks me up this time It'll be with twins, lol -
My grandma was an identical twin
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My maternal grandmother and her sister both had stillborn twins. I also have fraternal twin cousins.
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My husband is a twin (fraternal). His parents did IVF, though.
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My mom is a fraternal twin and I believe I heard her mother was one but had a vanishing twin or twin that didn't make it through birth (which I guess must have been later on because this was 70 years ago.) I had what was most likely a vanishing twin my second pregnancy (lost at a little past 5 weeks so I never saw a hb on that one, just a sac, but the u/s was so cloudy from the bleeding that the ob wasn't absolutely 100% sure.) I'm really curious to see if my mom's twins' daughters have any twins!
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My FIL is a twin (but that has no affect on DH's and my chances for multiples).
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I have three sets of twin cousins (BG, GG & BB, one of each lol) and then another cousin that had twins (BB).
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Not on my side, but dh has triplet cousins.
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I believe I read somewhere that identical twins could come from either mom or dads family tree, but that fraternal only counts if its in moms family tree, since it requires her body to release two eggs, which dad CAN'T make her do. So Fraternal runs in families, bu only matters at concepion if it's moms side.
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My MIL is a twin, my first cousin has a set of twins, my mom's cousin has twins.
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