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WHAT ARE MY CHANCES OF HAVING TWINS??

MY Grandfather is a twin(identical) i think because i never met his brother when i was little. .. anyways If my grandpa is a twin ( my father's father) what are my chances of having twins?
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it's all by chance. there is no set chance on if you have twins or not.
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my grandfather was a twin and my mother had 2 aets of twins i am one of those twins my husband is also a twin so how do you see my chances of also haveing twins?
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So what is your chance of having more than one baby at a time?

Basically, it is 3% or 1 in 33.

There are things that can increase your chances of having a multiple birth, including a mother being 30 or over when she conceives. For example, while there is a 3% chance of having a multiple birth at age 25-29, it increases to 4% at 30-34 years and almost 5% at 35-39 years.

Other factors that can increase your chances of having twins include having a maternal family history of multiple births (fraternal), and of course, using fertility treatments (in vitro fertilization or fertility drugs).

Your chance of having twins is also influenced by your race (multiples are more common in African Americans and least common in Hispanics and Asians), how many times you have been pregnant (the chance of having twins increases with each pregnancy), and whether or not you have had twins already.

Keep in mind that statistics for birth rates and multiple births include all births, including those that were the result of fertility treatments and those that were spontaneous or 'natural'. So if you don't have any of the factors mentioned above that can increase your chance of having multiples, your chance is going to be a little less than 3%. The chance of having 'natural' fraternal twins is only about 1.7% or 1 in 60. The chances of having twins with the use of fertility treatments can be as high as 20-25%!

Of multiple births, the rate of fraternal twins has been increasing the most, and that makes sense since the chance of having fraternal twins is influenced by an advanced maternal age and the use of fertility treatments.

The chance of having identical twins has remained steady, and is about 0.4% or 1 in 250.

that is from keepkidshealthy . com

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It's not entirely genetic but that is a factor.  
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Having twins is NOT a genetic thing at all. You can't determine whether or not you will have multiples based on previous sets in your family.
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My sister also had two sets of twins....I'm 7 weeks prgnant and i'll be 8 weeks thursday but my mom was saying she thinks i might be having twins so IDK
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do you know if there are more twins in your family aside from your grandfather? i actually have 7 month old twin boys. twins run rampant in my family. on both sides. on my fathers side we traced the twins back to the 1800's with our first ancestors that came to america (my fathers mothers family) and she (my so many greats grandmother) had THREE sets of twins. 3 sets. that's a whole lot of twins. lol. my aunt had a set of twins. my grandma's sisters are twins, my great grandma was a twin, and 2 of my brothers are twins. i was kind of....destined to have twins. lol.

i think it's just.....the luck really. some say twins skips a generation but that's not always true. the twins in my family just pop up sporadiclly.
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