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Posted by kim on September 12, 2011
Believe it not, many people actually want to pregnant with twins. Either they want to get a jump start on their family twice as fast or maybe they just like the novelty and attention that having twins bring. Now I personally don’t recommend trying to have twins after all the premature complications that my twins had, but if you are still bound and determined to try for twins, here are a couple of recommended ways to increase your chances of conceiving more than one bambino at a time.
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Fostering a sharing and caring environment at home is nothing short of difficult. Especially for twins, who are often times expected to be each other’s best friends, expectations can be overwhelming.
Bunk beds for your twins can grant them individual spaces while still learning valuable lessons about compromise and cooperation. The bunk bed helps save space in the kids’ room while your twins work together toward a common goal, whether it be making the bed or deciding who gets to sleep on the top bunk. Comfortable, secure, stylish, and a space saver, bunk beds can also be a vital learning tool for teaching your kids an important lesson in cohabitation.
Posted by Guest on April 13, 2011
Do you want to get pregnant with twins? There are plenty of women who would love to have two babies at once and thanks to modern medicine, having twins is no longer just a matter of chance. None of these methods offer any guarantees and they carry some significant risks. Beside that, twin pregnancies have the potential for a range of complications including, as you will know if you are a regular reader of this site, premature birth. Parenting twins also comes with a specific set of challenges.
If none of that deters you, and you are curious about how to get pregnant with twins, here’s a list of things that increases your chances.
1. If you are an older mom, you are more likely to have twins. The chance of having twins goes up with your age because older women release multiple eggs while they are ovulating much more frequently than their younger counterparts.
2. Did you know that people who are twins themselves or at least have a history of twins in their family give birth to twins themselves more often as well? Unless this is true for you, that does not help you much, however.
3. Women who have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or more have higher odds of conceiving twins, as do those who are taller than average.
4. You must have heard of those famous “Clomid twins”. Clomid is a fertility medication that has helped many thousands of women who were not ovulating naturally have children. Clomid sometimes prompts a woman’s ovaries to deliver a larger number of eggs, making twins or higher multiples a possibility. Around ten percent of all Clomid patients ends up with twins. Before you are tempted to run to a doctor and ask for Clomid to conceive twins, you should know that this medications comes with a large number of side effects. It is also not very probable that you’ll find a doctor willing to prescribe you this drug just because you happen to want two babies at once.
5. Invitro fertilization (IVF) might just offer the best chance of having twins. When multiple embryos are returned to the uterus following IVF, twins can definitely be expected. Not every embryo implants into the lining of the uterus – and it is exactly because transferring several embryos increases the chances of at least one surviving that this is common practice in IVF. Still, twins are pretty prevalent among IVF patients.
Olivia blogs about everything related to women’s health – from fertility and birth control to pregnancy and babies. Her free ovulation calendar might not increase your chances of twins, but it definitely boosts your odds of getting pregnant at all!
Posted by amyneil on August 17, 2009
I have 10 weeks old identical twin girls. They were born at 31 weeks and 2 days. We went through IVF, one egg took and then split. It split late, both girls were in the same amniotic sac – Monoamniotic Monochorionic. We were originally told that they cold be conjoined, but thankfully they were not. I was admitted to the hospital at 26 weeks. I was scheduled for a c section at 34 weeks, but my water broke early. The girls were 3lbs each when they were born. They spent 3 1/2 weeks in the NICU gaining weight and learning to take a bottle. One was on a nasal canula for a few days; the other required no breathing help. Both had episodes of Bradycardias – very scary. They are both 6lbs 3oz and 18 inches long – as of their pediatrician appointment last week.
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