Twins Again?

My grandmother had two sets of fraternal twins (for a total of five kidlets). Let the party begin! :)

Good luck, and please keep us posted.

Hi K.,
My cousin conceived fraternal twin girls on her first birth and found out she was pregnant again when they were 6 months old. It ended up being twins again for her. She had a boy and a girl the next time. It is hard to believe that it would happen back to back but it did. I don't know how she does it when they are only 14 months apart. Very busy!
Good luck.....

I don't have any twins but I first wanted you to know I took a pregnancy test over a week before I was suppose to start and it came back positive. So if there was a slight pink line there's a good chance you're pregnant.

On another note, my aunt had triplets (2 died in the womb), then twins,then one baby, then twins again. But I'm sure she's a very rare case.

Hope this helps.

It's highly unlikely you will have another set of twins! 98% chance that you will only have one! Of course it's remotely possible to have twins again (and lots of people have told you those stories), but it's so very very unlikely (there are way more women who only have one set of twins), that for you to expend any energy worrying about it is totally unnecessary and could add a lot of extra stress you don't need to yourself and your family. It's true that many pregnancies start out multiple but only one baby makes it past the early weeks, that's just the way nature works (and usually nobody ever knows or suspects there was originally more than one). It does sound like you have your hands full already, so I can understand your concern. Do you really want more babies? If it turns out you're not pregnant, have you considered using a better form of birth control?

Of my grandpa's siblings, there are three sets of twins. Good luck

It is absolutely possible. I read recently that a whole lot more pregnancies start off as twins (the embryos) but soon one doesn't make it for whatever reason. A friend of mine with fraternal twins got pregnant again (unexpectedly) and sure enough, there had been two, but one was not viable. You sound very fertile.

My experience, a line is a line, faint or not. I tested pretty early with both my girls, before my period was due, and they were very faint. The test can't detect a hormone that isn't there! If it's there, it's there and you will get a line. In fact, the at home test registered pregnancy before the hospital did, they told me I wasn't pregnant. Late afternoon testing versus early morning was why that happened. The hospital had to blood test me to get a positive reading. So, I believe in faint lines.

I had a faint line a few days early and I am having just one. If that eases your mind at all, it does happen in single baby pregnancies.

Try to rest assured that 1 in 50 is not a huge chance. Just 2%.

Also, ANY line or mark in the positive window no matter how faint is POSITIVE. There is no such thing as a false positive!

Good luck! You can handle whatever comes your way.

My grandma had 3 sets of identical twins. My grandma's son (my uncle, obviously) produced a set of fraternal twins and lost another set of twins. There are other examples I have heard of, but I can't think of any more right now. It happens.
However, I have also heard of people having certain symptoms based on gender more than anything else. I've heard a lot of stories about symptoms that start with "When I had a boy..." with, a little later in the story, "but when I had a girl..." You might not be having twins- maybe just another boy.
I hope this is helpful.

Don't rule it out!

I had 3 normal singleton pregnancies (all girls), so my husband and I decided to go for one more to finish rounding out our family. In March 2007, I became pregnant with twin girls, but lost them in June. Then thinking that there was no chance having twins again, we tried again, and now I'm almost 33 weeks pregnant with twin girls again!

I can't tell you if the first set were identical or not, they just did a chromosomal panel to check for birth defects (for us to decide to stop having children or not), and we won't know if this set is identical or not for a few more weeks.

Best of luck to you! We're not having anymore children do to the same fear of the dad at the zoo! LOL We don't want to take the chance of higher order multiples (and I'm 33 now)! I'm scared enough already! LOL

About the test (sorry I've got no info for you about twins!)...

Many tests these days can actually tell you if your pregnant up to a week BEFORE your period is due. Always a little nervy making, since spontaneous rejections happen typically in those first couple weeks. It's not uncommon to test positive and then have your period. Best of luck to you!!!

Hi K., My first two were twins and then waited almost 4 yrs. before trying for a third she also was a twin but (I had an ultra sound early because I'm high risk)luckily her twins sack was empty and at 17wks. I started to bleed and went in and had another ultra sound and the sack was gone, but when I delivered I had a twin size placenta and the nurses were digging through trying to find the other baby. So there is always that possibility to have twins again. I wish you the best and keep me posted please.

Definitely a possibility. We met a family at the zoo once who had a set of twins first. The next time she found out she was expecting they had tripletts. Her husband then informed her that they were not going to have any more for fear of more multiples.