i want twins in the near future..hehe
2006-06-10 03:26:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Other than fertility drugs, the only way to increase your odds would be to pick good ancestors (if you are a woman) or to pick a woman with good ancestors (if you are a man). Fertility drugs, by the way, carry all kinds of risks (including, ironically, infertility!), so no doctor is likely to prescribe them without a real *medical* need.
If a woman has *fraternal* twins in her family, her odds increase from 1 in 90 to about 1 in 22 of having twins. (However, recent studies have found that many twins who were thought to be fraternal may actually have been half-identical; this is *not* genetic.) Even 1 in 22 means that there's a 95% chance you *won't* have twins.
2006-06-10 10:08:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A recent study suggested that the diet of women with a family history of twins had an effect on whether or not they actually had twins. Google something like "Twins and diet" to see.
Otherwise, fertility drugs.
And older women are more likely to have twins as well.
But, in all seriousness, why would you WANT to have twins? It's riskier for you and the babies, and it's a heck of a lot more work. I mean, obviously if you FOUND yourself pregnant with twins, you'd love them and all, but why would you try to create a twin pregnancy on purpose?
2006-06-10 10:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by Yarro Pilz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genetics and luck are the main factors in twinning. Fertility drugs increase the chances you may become pregnant with twins, but no doctor will prescribe fertility drugs for increasing mulitiple birth odds...it would be dangerous and unethical.
Multiple pregnancy is a high risk pregnancy and twins are more work and cost than you can imagine...be careful what you wish for!
2006-06-10 12:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by Midwife Jane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fraternal twins (two eggs, and two sperm) run in the mothers side of the family and usally skip a generation or two. Identical twins (where one egg becomes two) are a fluke, and anyone can have them. There is no way to increase your chances. Fertility drugs can often cause more than one egg to be released therefore resulting in fraternal twins. I don't recommend using them unless you're having trouble conceiving. Most doctors probably won't allow it anyways. God bless
2006-06-10 11:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not naturally. But there's those fertility drugs that make you ovulate more than one ovum that they give you when you want "artificial insemination" (like single women going to a sperm bank...). This is probably the only way to "control" having twins, and it does cost a lot, so.... :-(
2006-06-10 10:34:14 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women sometimes take fertility drugs to enhance their chances of having multiple babies, but this is still a crapshoot. Sometimes it work, and sometimes it doesn't. Any doctor who make you a firm promise is a liar, and he is also unethical.
2006-06-10 10:31:19 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never had a baby cause i'm not married yet,but i think there have a way to control it.try to get doctor's advice
2006-06-10 10:49:12 · answer #7 · answered by miss arif 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have to run in your family.naturally.....no.
2006-06-10 10:47:05 · answer #8 · answered by georgemi74 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋