Clomid?? Multiples

[Trinitynjdr]

Okay, my family has a history of twins, it is not a totally good history but it is there none the less.  
Grandmother - birthed twins that died after birth but really early
Aunt - birthed twins that died after birth but early
Another aunt- birthed twins they are 22 or 23
Uncle - has twins they are 16

None of my generation has had twins.  The twins are all on my mothers side of the family.  Now at first i didn't want to look into clomid however, now i am considering it.  I have PCOS and have wanted a child for years.  Clomid doesn't guarantee but it is an option i haven't tried.  Does this family history mean that if I decide to take this my chances of multiples are dramatically increased?????

[Trinitynjdr]

I don't know about the ones that didn't survive but the ones that are alive are fraternal.

[seg107]

Are the twins in your family history identicle or fraternal?  Identicle twins occur ramdomly when one fertilized egg splits early after conception.  As I said, this is completely random and is not genetic/family based.

if the twins are mostly fraternal, there could be someing genetic that causes women to regularly release multiple eggs - which is the objective of clomid.

[Trinitynjdr]

Ok, thanks.

[Tarobinc]

It depends. Clomid should help more follies mature and thus could produce more than one egg.

If you are truely concerned, you would want to go with a monitored cycle while taking Clomid.  I was told only a fertility specialist would do this and not an GYN. With a monitored cycle, sonograms are done to see how many mature follies you have that would be ready to pop an egg out around ovulation.

I have PCOS and we went with Clomid + injectables with a fertility specialist.  I was also 35 at the time.  I never had more than 3 follies that were ready. We got our dd with try #3 of IUI.