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What are your chances of twins ?
Maternal age A woman over 35 has a far higher chance of conceiving twins than does a women in her early twenties.
Why? because as a women approaches menopause her body recognizes that she has a large store of eggs and begins dropping two at a time to get rid of them before menopause sets in...
The other reason women start releasing more than one egg at a time is increased FSH as she gets older this stimulates more than one follicle to mature at a time then when the LH surge occurs the most mature follicles rupture. BMI A Womans Height and Weight have something to do with twin conceptions, women in the top 25% in height and women with a BMI body mass index of 30 or higher had a greater chance of conceiving twins
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Having a family history of twins is a factor, you may be carrying a gene that causes you to release more than one egg at a time; this is called hyper-ovulation.
Your husband on the other hand may have inherited a protein that causes the egg to split in two increasing the chance of identical twins.
Mothers of twins already If you have already conceived one set of twins then chances are very high that you will again, either you have the gene for hyper-ovulation or your husband carries the gene for a protein that causes an egg to split. If you have conceived twins in the past, your chance of conceiving twins again jumps to 1 in 5!
Ethnicities African American women have a higher chance of conceiving twins than other races. Asian and Hispanic have the lowest twinning rates of all races. |