Boy/girl twins any idea whats going on?

[queen-of-harts]

Thank you

I'm sorry to read about your grandmother, so very sad x

Yeah my mom had a rough go at life,her dad died of a massive heart attack when she was 15 also so she was deprived of soo much and her "stepmom" used to hit them out of the blue saying "ugh you look like your mother" im surprized my mom turned out soo good.

[atomic sagebrush]

Great response ladies,this makes more sense to me now with the theories you mention.I was thinking about this subject because my mother is a fraternal twin GG and i know this is more common than BG.I wish I could get some gg twins!

Oh, I KNOW! Wouldn't that be a dream come true!!

I was looking up stats on this and they are ALL over the map. I am not totally sure we can KNOW off of the Internet info, what the actual numbers are. It is clear that some people (even experts in books) are reporting straight statistics on what SHOULD be true (which would be 50% BG, 25% BB and 25% GG) rather than what the numbers really and truly are, and I've done enough reading into gender ratio to know that these numbers cannot be true.

I would predict (altho I have nothing to back this up) that there will be more girl twins born, simply because boys are more fragile than girls are and twin pregnancies are harder to maintain. I also predict that more boy twins are conceived and then lost - and obviously, it's the numbers of twins conceived rather than born, that matter for our swaying investigations.

My uncles are BB fraternal twins and my grandma went to term with them 55 years ago!!! And they are so different looking that you can't even tell they're brothers. I also think that Marshall's twin we lost was a boy because it was a placenta previa which are more likely to be boys.

If you want twins, I urge everyone to take some extra folic acid - not because it makes you have more boys, which is commonly reported as true on the Internet, but because it helps your body sustain twin pregnancies. According to what I"ve read, any link between folic and twinning is because the folic helps both twins to survive, not because the folic increases your odds of conceiving twins.

[maidentomother]

All the non-identical twins in my family are BG. My maternal grandmother had BG twin siblings, and went on to produce 2 Gs and a set of BG twins. Sadly the B was essentially stillborn a month before the G, my mother, was born. She then had me, my brother, and miscarried BG twins in her late 40s. I conceived BG twins in 2012, and in that particular scenario I know that one egg came from my right ovary and the other from the left, nearly 4 days after the first egg.

Both my mother and I have/had 1 or more hyperovulatory cycles per year, and in both our cases there are usually multiple days between the two eggs - they are NOT released at the same time, and we also get two LH surges in those months. In my case, I do usually release both eggs from the same ovary, to the best of my knowledge. I don't know about my mother, grandmother or great-grandmother. It is rare for me to release two eggs close together, and I have ovulated up to two weeks apart. It's quite frustrating bc there is no predictable pattern.

I know in my case there was a cut-off, as I had BD'ed the day of my first O, several hours before actual O to the best of my knowledge, then didn't BD again at all. So there were definitely less sperm around when Oed again 4 days later! So far it seems like my CM, which is often EWCM for half my cycle, does tend to be acidic. I started testing with pH strips a few days after O last cycle, though, so I have not yet tested my CM before/around O. At the time I conceived I was actually eating a pretty bad diet for me (mostly I ate cereal w/ almond milk, granola bars, and popsicles, all organic) though I was heavier and not losing weight at all. I was on a higher dose of morphine, had been taking prenatal vitamins and fish oil for months, and was taking aspirin-like drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.