2 sets of twins?

[Erin_25]

I don't know much about it, but my sister taught some kids at her school that were in a family of ten kids......3 sets of twins! all natural, that lady is amazing.

[Karina]

I went to school with a family who had 1 set of triplets, 1 set of twins and one single child. I believe they were all naturally conceieved (this family was a bit of a gossip item when they arrived at my school, lol).

[diva det]

i have a set of twins
my SIL has two sets and lost a 3rd set- she has also gone on to have 2 singletons as well-she is a twin herself as well. They said to her after she had conceived three sets that most likely all other pg would be twins- but the last two that i know of have been only one at a time!

my DH great grandma had 3 sets as well
my grandma only had one set
cousins, aunties and even 2nd cousins on both sides of my DH family have all had twins as well
the genetic link to twinning is amazing and very strong!
its really strange when someone has one baby at a time in our families lol
my twins thought and assumed that everyone had two babies at a time until I had to explain that it wasnt the norm for most families.
We were told that it was a 1 in 4 chance after one set and a 50% chance after two sets and even higher after 3 sets
Good luck!!!

[Mum2Romone]

My mum was one of nine

Four sets of twins and my mum

She was adopted though, so they are distant relatives now

[ShootingStar]

I use to work with a lady who had twin girls and then twin boys.

[Loula]

Bit of a sad story.

A lady at work had twins boy/girl but they passed away at 36 weeks due to a liver complication (the mother) she was very ill for a long time afterwards

6mth later she was pg again................twins again

Both natural!

twins born very happy and very healthy

[Cherished]

if you've naturally conceived fraternal twins, your chances of naturally conceiving fraternal twins again is said to be 1 in 4. It is assumed that you have a tendency to ovulate multiple eggs. This is why fraternal twins are hereditary - because a tendency to ovulate multiple eggs at once is genetic.
It is different for identical twins though. Chances of spontaneously conceiving a second set of identical twins is 1 in 70 000. although it does happen, of course!

:yeahthat: but I do know of a lady that had identical twin boys AND identical twin girls in 2 separate pregnancies. I also know of a set of identical twin girls who have both had identical twins themselves (one a set of boys and the other a set of girls). Knowing the odds of having identical twins in the 1st place I thought that both of these cases were pretty special considering the identical twin thing doesn't 'really' run in the family like the old wives tale would have you believe.