I've been wondering if there's a chance if I will have twins in the future like my parents told me…?
My mom told me that her mom gave birth to twins out if the 12 children my grandmother had, and my dad said his mom had have birth to twins also but one Unfortunately passed away at birth, and also his mom have birth to 12 children. I heard their is a chance but only from the mothers side of the family.
Can you please tell me if their is a HUGE chance of having twins if I try to become pregnant in the future? Thanks :) 😊
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It depends entirely on the type of twins your grandmothers had. Fraternal twins (two separate eggs) are inherited because of a condition called hyper-ovulation, where a single ovary releases two or more eggs per cycle. If your grandmothers had this, then there is a chance you could also hyper-ovulate and then have fraternal twins.
Identical twins (single fertilized egg splits into two) are not inherited, or at least not through the same clear-cut mechanism as fraternal twins. So far there are only theories about how identical twins happen, and most of them are not related to inheritance.
There is no such thing as a "huge" change of having twins. Either you are genetically inclined to or not. Having thirty pairs of twins on your family tree, or only one or two gives you about the same odds.
Yes if it runs in the family there is a chance. I don't know exactly what you mean by huge. But there is a chance