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HelpRe: Woman Gives Birth to Three Sets of Twins in Five Years!
in reply to a message by Elena
I knew IVF HAD to be involved before I even opened up the thread. So obvious enough. Having conceived 3 sets of twins naturally would definitely shock me.
Connor & Avery: Both great names and they sound excellent together
Leah & Elise: Both great\ok names but as what you said, I wouldn't pair them together as well. Even if they weren't twin siblings.
Connor & Avery: Both great names and they sound excellent together
Leah & Elise: Both great\ok names but as what you said, I wouldn't pair them together as well. Even if they weren't twin siblings.
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I can't even with your comment below, but I think I can be calm enough to just set some facts straight here:
IVF rarely results in a pregnancy of multiples. It is a misconception that people seem to have who don't have any real knowledge of fertility treatments. No more than 2 embryos are transferred for IVF, excluding the rare ridiculous case that would get spread all over media. But any real doctor would never do that, and many people only chose to transfer one. When I did IVF we did two and I only gave birth to one child.
FWIW, the procedure that is the one that would ever result in those higher order multiples that we hear about is IUI used negligently.
IVF rarely results in a pregnancy of multiples. It is a misconception that people seem to have who don't have any real knowledge of fertility treatments. No more than 2 embryos are transferred for IVF, excluding the rare ridiculous case that would get spread all over media. But any real doctor would never do that, and many people only chose to transfer one. When I did IVF we did two and I only gave birth to one child.
FWIW, the procedure that is the one that would ever result in those higher order multiples that we hear about is IUI used negligently.
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Yeah, the high incidence of assisted fertility multiples used to be down to too many embryos, but since they've hauled that in it's down to clomid causing multiple eggs to be released.
It's one of the reasons that Ellie doesn't want us to go down the clinic route if we can help it - they generally want you to take clomid to give IUI the best chance of working, and we're not sure we could handle twins :D
It's one of the reasons that Ellie doesn't want us to go down the clinic route if we can help it - they generally want you to take clomid to give IUI the best chance of working, and we're not sure we could handle twins :D
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Oy vay. From what I always heard about fertility treatments is that multiple embreyos are transplanted, creating multiple babies (providing if all of them survive or don't get aborted) and increasing the chances of twins and other multiples. Apparently, all that is false information. Even if I was in fact fed false information, there no need to make me out the bad guy here, like my statement was disrespectful or ignorant. (Your opening line implies that) was that really necessary? My information was perhaps misguided but I wasn't at all trying to be rude but rather stating what I thought was the truth. So I'm sorry
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I'm totally calm and not offended that you have been given misinformation about IVF. I was not calm and was offended at your comment below (which I read first) that insinuated that it's so easy to have a baby you can either do it naturally or adopt and if you don't adopt and instead choose to use treatments to have one biologically then your child isn't a real human. I can tell you right now that my daughter is 100% the same as anyone else, as are all babies that just so happened to have been conceived outside of the womb and then put back in within a few days.
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My husband's mom had two sets of twins naturally. I'm sure she could have had a third set if she'd went for it, but 4 kids in 2 years was probably enough.
~shock~
Sometimes IVF doesn't have to be involved, twins run pretty aggressively in this family, you can actually trace them up her family tree. No generation skipping and every set of twins in the past 3 generations got matching initials.
~shock~
Sometimes IVF doesn't have to be involved, twins run pretty aggressively in this family, you can actually trace them up her family tree. No generation skipping and every set of twins in the past 3 generations got matching initials.
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My SO's cousin also had two sets of twins naturally.
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