Likelihood of twins??? If your grandmother had twins and her aunts were twins would that.....?

Question

make you more susceptible to having twins? What are the chances if no-one since your grandmother had twins.

And do you think its true that its really only the woman's side of the family needs to have a history of twins (as in a pre-disposition to releasing more than one egg or having eggs split) or does the man pass on a possibility through his sperm of making the egg split?

We haven't had twins on my side (or hubbies) since my grandmother. she had 4 kids who haven't had twins and 3 grandkids with 7 kids between them who haven't had twins.

What do you think are my chances? I've already had two singletons. Or do you think its a load of B/S that it is more likely to be 'hereditary'?

Answer 1

I think it is just the luck of the draw. there have been 2 sets of twins and 1 triplet in my family but then nothing for two generations.

Answer 2

I always heard it 'skips a generation' and goes every other generation- but my friend fully expected to have twins, has 2 singletons, and based on that she 'should' have had twins. I guess it's hard to predict for sure.