Samo

the gene would have to come from your mother's side as your mother is the one who would have to ovulate twice not your father! So this means your mother would have to have passed it to you, so in your case...twins may not be in your genes!

khartnett

Phew! Cheers for the info. x

7WZ

The guys family having twins in doesn't make a difference. Just the mothers.

Ria_Rose

Just what I was going to say.

Fraternal (non-identical twins) are thought to be hereditary on the mothers side, as having them would mean that your body produced 2 eggs at once.

Identical twins, are thought to be random, and are caused by the spliting of an egg after fertilization - although I think there is a little evidence of certain people being prone to having eggs that split.

Obviously with the advent of IVF more twins are now being born, those children when they grow up will be no more likely to have twins than the rest of us.

avistar

Anything can happen! I grew up with twins and their father was a twin...I think it would be neat to have em, but lots and lots of work

Belle

u should def mention it 2 ur MW at ur next appointment as she'll jot it on ur notes and they'll make sure that there is only 1 baby or not at ur 1st scan! thats what they did with me as we have twins in the family! x