Has anyone heard/experienced this?

[athena213]

I just was curious - is it possible for a woman to have two pregnancies, for example, and both to conceive twins, naturally? I understand that family history plays a role primarily, as does age, and maybe diet? But I would like to know, is this very common?

[moniviolin]

I do not believe that diet plays a role in twin conception. This was my second pregnancy, and I did not change my eating habits.  I have read that age plays a role, however. I am 36 years old. :-)

[athena213]

Thanks for your reply! Just curious, aside from family history, do you think your diet played a role as well? I've been reading up on this, and i'm very curious as to whether the specific things we eat during conception, ie. dairy, yams, bananas,etc specific foods - as well as a certain age group - do they really influence spontaneous twins conceptions? Were you eating any particular foods? And if this is a second pregnancy, was your diet any different with the first?

[moniviolin]

Fraternal twins is hereditary, since your body is releasing more than one egg at a time. Identical twins are spontaneous, and no one knows why the zygote splits. My grandmother had 17 children total, and in that 17, she had three sets of fraternal twins. I am currently 30 weeks pregnant with identical twins, and am fearful of having another set of fraternal twins, since it runs in my family.