This is correct, the posters below are mistaken. Specifically, the tendency to release more than one egg per cycle CAN be genetic, and while your dad obviously isn't releasing any eggs, he can carry the trait and pass it to a daughter. I think I've read that the daughter of a twin is something like 7X more likely to have twins themselves.
Yes, this. It is the father's side, but since you are the female capable of egg production, it would clearly be up to you.
My father is a fraternal twin, there is also another pair of fraternal twins in his immediate family.(his sisters) There are about 15 different pairs of twins among the cousins. While I did measure large for quite a while, an ultrasound only found one little bean in there. I had really hoped for twins, but now that I am 32 weeks along, I think one is just fine and dandy.
Fraternal twins happen because two eggs are released instead of one during a cycle. It is more likely that you have the trait to release two eggs at once because it is in your family.
It goes along maternal lines is the way I understand it. So if your mother, her mother, your grandmother's mother, etc had twins then you might. I'm not a doctor though. :)
I'm having twins and have been reading everything obsessively about twins. What I have read is that there is a family link for identical twins on the mother's side but anyone can have fraternal twins.
Ours are fraternal and there is no history of either kind of twins on either side of the family :)
Identical twins are spontaneous, since it involves the random splitting of one embryo. Fraternal twins are the kind that involve a genetic link because it requires that more than one egg be released.
There are other reasons why one might have fraternal twins even without a genetic link, like supposedly if you get pregnant in the first cycle after getting off the pill, your system is so overwhelmed with new hormones that you might release more than one egg.
The older you are when you conceive the more likely your chance of having fraternal twins too. As you get closer to menopause your body doesn't always release its eggs regularly. A friend's doctor told her to think of it like a gumball machine. Sometimes you put your quarter in and it doesn't give you anything, but another time you might get a bonus gumball.
I am not prepared for twins at all. I think I'd be really freaked out if they said I was having them...but then again whose really 'ready' for twins anyway?
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My father is a fraternal twin, there is also another pair of fraternal twins in his immediate family.(his sisters) There are about 15 different pairs of twins among the cousins. While I did measure large for quite a while, an ultrasound only found one little bean in there. I had really hoped for twins, but now that I am 32 weeks along, I think one is just fine and dandy.
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Not positive if this is accurate or not.
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Does that help?
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Man...sometimes I sound really dumb lol.
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Ours are fraternal and there is no history of either kind of twins on either side of the family :)
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There are other reasons why one might have fraternal twins even without a genetic link, like supposedly if you get pregnant in the first cycle after getting off the pill, your system is so overwhelmed with new hormones that you might release more than one egg.
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I am not prepared for twins at all. I think I'd be really freaked out if they said I was having them...but then again whose really 'ready' for twins anyway?
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