ivf egg fertilization

i am currently undergoing ivf treatment, i recently had 9 eggs removed but only 1 fetilized. Is there any chance i could have twins, because my husband is a twin

[AnnieBrooke]

The dad's history does not produce twins.  If you were a twin yourself, or if your mother was, then there would be a bigger chance of fraternal twins.  Identical twins are random and not affected by genetics.

[AnnieBrooke]

ps -- I understand why you would want twins!  Good luck with the singleton.  :)

[AnnieBrooke]

Sorry to keep posting, but I realize I answered your question kind of backwards.  

Fraternal twins, which come down only from the mom's side, simply mean that your body produced two eggs in a single ovulation.  Fraternals probably happen in IVF, but since you are producing so many embryos, they are all produced in a single ovulation, and what you'd do naturally doesn't really signify.  If there *were* fraternals in an IVF cycle, they would just be lost in the shuffle, and you would know by now if there was another one there.  (Which you know there is not.)

Identical twins are possible with IVF, but rare.  This is because the embryo that produces them usually would split before the day they are transferred back into you, say at day 2 or 3 of life.  When identicals split, they have a very short timeline to do so safely.  (If an embryo splits as late as day 8, it can be an incomplete split and produce conjoined twins.)  When I had identicals from IVF, they shared too much of the placenta and blood supply, and I lost them to something called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome at the ninth week of pregnancy.  So identicals from IVF (especially if they have not split by day 5) are not necessarily good news.

In short, your husband's history doesn't come into it.  Fraternals, you would not see in the crowd.  And identicals, which can happen as a surprise after transfer but are rare, are not always a good thing.  

In any case, I wish you a wonderful pregnancy!

[bal904]

Hi Annie thank you so much for your advice, unfortunately only one of my eggs fertilized but it was of good quality.

i had my embryo tranfered today.
love bal

[AnnieBrooke]

Good luck!

[babyhope40527]

Hi bal, its very rare that 1 embryo divides into multiple. mostly 1 embryo will lead to one baby i guess. if 9 eggs are retrieved, only  1 fertilized? is that ICSI IVF or regular IVF?

Good luck and baby dust.