luckyjune
Pearl Clutcher
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Location: In the rainy, rainy WA
Jul 22, 2017 4:59:41 GMT
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Post by luckyjune on Mar 13, 2024 20:48:41 GMT
I find it fascinating that singletons and fraternal twins are nearly neck and neck at the moment with identical twins almost half fraternal. Lots of families with lots of multiples too! In my twins' graduating class of 450 kids, there were five sets of twins. One b/g set was born earlier the same day mine were born, in the same hospital. For years we'd see them out for birthday dinner at a popular spot in our area.
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Post by supersoda on Mar 14, 2024 1:25:06 GMT
All sorts of twins and higher-order multiples in my family and my husband's. Science tells us the following: 1. Identical twins are basically a random occurrence. 2. The tendency in families to have twins only runs through the maternal side. Science is wrong; it just doesn't know it yet. I had identical twins, as did my cousin Brenda. My mother's father was an identical twin and there are other identicals on my mom's side of the family. My husband's grandmother miscarried twins, had triplet siblings who did not survive, his mother has identical twin brothers, his sister miscarried twins, and there are lots of other twins on that side of the family. I have heard way too many stories about identicals running in families to believe that science has this one nailed down. Identicals are not particularly well-studied, for one thing. They make up one-third of twins, and twins are approximately 1 in 100 births. There's still a lot to learn about monozygotic twins (identicals). I also don't think they know enough about twins in general to say that the male does not contribute to a genetic tendency. I realize my experience is anecdotal, but I also firmly believe that we do not know wayyyyy more than we know, even with all of the technological advances in science and medicine. I base this on the "discovery" of the "interstitium" several years back, among other observations. I agree that there's possibly a genetic component with identical twins that science hasn't figured out yet. My cousin and I both have identical twins. We also both have uniquely shaped uteruses, and I wonder if there is some connection there. Or it may just all be a coincidence. My grandmother (shared by my cousin) was a fraternal twin, and her mother had two sets of fraternal twins.
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Mar 14, 2024 3:33:49 GMT
Other than a distant cousin about my age, whose twin was still born, the only twins I know about were my paternal grandmother miscarried twins and my maternal great-great-grandfather was a twin, they were born in 1846 a day apart and lived to 64 and died just a few months apart. Their mother didn't survive their birth. Twins sure don't run in my family. My great-great grandfather's daughter, my great-grandmother lived to be 97 and I knew her well.
My oldest first cousin on my father's side has several twins in her family.
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Post by Fidget on Mar 15, 2024 18:18:34 GMT
My older sister has fraternal twins (they are in their 40's)she also has Fraternal twin grandchildren. My niece - Brother's daughter has identical twins. After my older sister had twins, I always hoped for a set myself, but it was not to be!
My Niece on Late DH side has fraternal twins (obviously nothing to do with me), but I thought it interesting, she was the first that anyone knows of on his side to have multiples and my MIL was 13th of 16 children and my DH was the oldest of 8, he has over 100 first cousins and NO multiples that we were ever aware of!
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Post by melanell on Mar 16, 2024 1:52:30 GMT
In my family there are 2 current pair of fraternal twins, and both were due to medical assistance.
Otherwise, I only can think of one instance of spontaneous twins in my family in many, many generations, and unfortunately only one twin survived in that pair.
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