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mummy_becks 
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 8:51pm |
Now is it that identical twins that aren't heriditary??
On my mums side we have twins galore. Her older brother and sister are twins and my mum has 2 sets of cousins that are twins 1 set is identical and the other fraternal.
So the chances of twins in my family is strong. However no one has had them (and we have a lot of people in my extended family). I have also heard that they skip a generation so that would mean that my generation would have them??
Sorry a bit over the place.
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kebakat
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:00pm |
Identical is random, fraternal is heriditary.
I've heard that they skip a generation. That holds true for our family.
eta: to give an example, my mum is a fraternal twin and my great grandmother is a fraternal twin. So it's apparently my turn to pop them out 
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:05pm |
Your mum is a twin I didn't know that!!!
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:07pm |
Yeh its the frateral twins that run in the family.
I no there are twins in my family, i think they are like 3 cousins or something like that. I just tell people that i was extra fertile the month that i conceived Ryan & Katelyn
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:21pm |
They only skip a generation on the fathers side as they can carry the gene but it's only the mothers genes(eggs) that determine whether you have fraternal twins.
I am a twin and have twins. There is a history of twins in both my parents families though so was doubly screwed.
I think I had a 1 in 20 chance of having them and now have a 1 in 4 chance of having them again! 
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 9:53pm |
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Definitely fraternal are hereditary, on the mothers side. My nanna (mums mum) had twins and I am a fraternal twin, so don't really know about the skipping a generation, have heard it is true.
My friend has twins and she has a 1 in 4 chance of having another twin pregnancy!
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 10:40pm |
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What Tishy said. The father can pass on the gene to produce more than one egg in a cycle, but only the mother can manifest that obviously so a father could pass the gene to his son, and his son then passes it to his daughter and his daughter then has twins. It can skip more than one generation, or it can present in every generation.
And identical are random,altho I was reading recently that new research suggests there may be a genetic link.
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 12:51pm |
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I dont believe it when they say that fraternal twins tend to skip generations. I think it depends on how strong the gene is to start with and again as Maya said, it can be present in every generation. Each family is different.
We managed to trace a faint family history of twins in both our mother's sides of the family. These twins that Im carrying would be the next generation of twins but they seem to be spreading across the family rather than directly hereditary.
On saying that, at this stage, they think that our twins are identical - so not hereditary - they think!
DNA testing is the only absolute answer I guess.
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 5:31pm |
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I thought unidentical twins were genetic through the mother's line and identical twins through the father's line?
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 7:28pm |
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Do your twins have separate placentas Cat007? Coz if there is only one placenta they are def identical, if there are two placentas they can be fraternal or identical.
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 10:27am |
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If you look on the multiple birth clubs website it has lots of information regarding identical and fraternal twins - check it out!!!
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 11:17am |
So if there is twins on DH's side, but not on my side is there a chance that we could have twins?
DH's Granddads on both his Mum and Dad's side are both twins!
I would twins!
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 11:36am |
 BooBoo wrote:
I would twins! |
Secretly I think I do to.
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 11:49am |
BooBoo wrote:
So if there is twins on DH's side, but not on my side is there a chance that we could have twins?
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Unfortunately not. There's a chance your daughters could have twins.
Twins rock! No matter what Emma says 
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 12:01pm |
Ahhh yep thought that was the case! Thanks 
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IVF it is
IVF/ICSI round one
10 eggs, 8 mature, 3 fertilised BFN
IVF/ICSI #2 = 22 eggs!
20 mature, 15 fertilised, 1 fresh transfer and 2 frosties
BFN
2 Frosties still in freezer thank god
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 1:33pm |
Yeah I only found out recently that identical twins isn't hereditary! My dad is an identical twin (although his twin bro died of cot death at 6 months old ) and before my dad came along, his mum gave birth to still born identical twin girls! So all my life I've thought I would most likely have twins! But no, it's only fraternal twins that are hereditary. Phew!!
(But my poor grandmother!! Giving birth to stillborn twin girls, then losing a 6 month old baby later as well. She later went on to take her own life, when my dad was 19. It was all too much for her.)
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 1:38pm |
cat007 wrote:
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On saying that, at this stage, they think that our twins are identical - so not hereditary - they think!
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So are you boys identical, cat?
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 1:44pm |
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Wow i didn't know any of that...on my side of the family my Nana is a identical twin and my family has always said it skips a generation so that would make it my generation to have twins but none of us have so far.....
On JK's side his grandmother gave birth two 3 sets of twins...two identical and one fraternal.....
So does that mean we won't have twins but our daughter might? I thought our chances were higher having twins on both sides of the family....I would love to have twins but sadly i think my baby making days are over after this baby....
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 3:46pm |
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Then theres me....41 and pregnant with twins with no history either side of twins. I think my biological clock is working over time and produced two eggs
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Posted: 26 August 2008 at 3:50pm |
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Thats so cool Linda....
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