What is the chance of me having a set of twins?

Question

My husband is a twin, and my husbands dad is a twin. Twins run on my husband's side, but not mine.

Answer 1

The correct answer is no. Your husband has no bearing on weather you have twins or not. He will release millions of sperms. You on the other control the number of eggs release. Usually one, but if you release more then one egg, then you have a chance for twins. If your mother has had twins or her mother or her mother etc then it can run in your family. In order for it to be considered to be in the family genes, it has to be from the woman's side, not the man.

Twins Run in Your Family

"Do twins run in your family" is probably the second most common question asked to parents of multiples, right after "Are they twins????" The answer to the first question is, yes . . . and no.

If you, your mother, or your mother's mother is a fraternal (dizygotic) twin your chances of having twins increases significantly. The main reason for this is an inherited a gene for "hyperovulation" - you release more than one egg during an ovulation cycle, which increases your ability to conceive fraternal twins.

Answer 2

You have NO INCREASED CHANCE of having twins. Fraternal twins are caused by the mother producing two eggs and both being fertilized. Your husband cannot cause YOU to produce two eggs. The increased chance of twins runs through the mother's side. So if you have a daughter she has an increased chance of having twins.

Identical twins are a flat 1 in 250 chance for all pregnancies.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Your chance is not elevated. Most often, twins are a result of advanced maternal age. For instance, my mom is a twin, most likely because her mother was 39 when she had her. There are some slight hereditary increases in twinning rates if the twins are in the maternal line of the mother, but the male line plays no part at all.

One new study I read that had to do with twins said that women who consume a lot of dairy have 5 times higher than average rate of having fraternal twins. So actually, the food you consume may play greater role in conceiving twins than any family history does.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Really it is like a 50/50 chance. Twins run on my husband's side of the family to (his mom was a twin, She had no twin, but one of her son's had twin) Twins run on my dad's side, I didn't have any twins but my half brother did.

Answer 6

If hubby and hubby's Dad are identical twins, you do have an increased chance of identical twins. They have found that in some family groups, the men have an enzyme that causes the eggs to split resulting in identical twins. If that is not the case, your chances are no greater than any other woman's because it totally depends on whether you put out more than one egg during ovulation. I think the chance is 1 in 80.

Answer 7

My mom and her sister are twins. My aunts daughter had a set of twins. So my aunt started to do some research and asked the doctors why she herself never had twins and neither did my mom, mor have I. Well all the doctors said the same. 1. it usually skips a generation 2.the twin gene can only be passed fom mother to daughter 3. the only thing that comes from the father is the gene to determine fraternal or identical. Well my uncle had that gene so my cousins twins are identical.
So just because he is a twin does not give you a 50% chance of twins. It's not his sperm that splits its your egg. So your body will determine if you have twins.

Answer 8

Well since your husband has the gene and you do not, I'd say 50%.

Yay for twins! I wish I could have twins but there are none on either side.

Answer 9

that's fantastically unlikely to have yet another same twin as quickly as you have already got a fraternal twins. It has a mild probability besides the undeniable fact that that's a threat that the subsequent toddler is a single. it may well be super to work out yet another set of twins! sturdy luck!

Answer 10

I have been told that twins is determined my the mother --not the father.
Twins run in my husbands family as well and I asked my OB.