if i was to get pregnant by my current boyfriend, who is a twin, what's the chances of conceiving twins?
higher than normal? or does it not make much difference?
2006-08-20 08:27:20 · 5 answers · asked by niccyford 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Twinning, apparently, is more complicated than just genetics - in the majority of natural triplets, there is a set of identical twins and a singleton - meaning that both more than one egg was released and that an embryo split early on, causing identical twins...
Women who are fraternal twins are much more likely to have fraternal twins; men who are identical twins are much more likely to have identical twins. Some families have both types of twins...
So, to answer your question, if he's an identical twin, your chances of having twins are higher than average (which is 1 in 80 births, approximately) and if he's fraternal, then it's just average...
2006-08-20 09:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by IVF Expert 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It really doesn't matter if the father is a twin or not, because it all has to do with the egg (or eggs :-p)... identical twins are formed when, after conception (and usually a few days after conception) the egg inexplicably splits and begins to create two embryos. In fraternal twinning, the mother releases two eggs, instead of the usual one, during a menstrual cycle and those two eggs are fertilized by two different sperm. In that case, the twins are no more related than any pair of siblings, they just happen to be forming at the same time :-) But again, it's all about the egg(s), so the father doesn't really have much to do with it :-p
2006-08-21 05:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by TwinMommyJen 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If he was a twin, it does increase the chances.
However, women have a greater chance of having fraternal twins. There is no real standard findings from research done on identical twins. They still aren't sure exactly how it happens.
For fraternal twins - the mother drops two eggs. And the father just happens to have one more sperm to find the way. Chances of fraternal twins increases in a woman who is overweight, over the age of 30, and/or has had multiple births prior.
Check out this website. They also have online quizzes, of how to increase your chances of twins, how to guess if you can have twins...etc.
http://www.multiples.about.com
This is the only website that I can find, to give detailed & exact info on twins & multiple pregnancies.
2006-08-20 16:50:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't make a difference. Twins down a family line are caused by hyperovulation, the gene that causes it being passed down the women's side of the family. He, of course, cannot cause you to ovulate more than once. Everyone's chances of having identical twins are the same.
2006-08-20 08:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by criticalcatalyst 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Twins are inherited from the mother's side, usually.
2006-08-20 08:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by rcrbsll 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋