Hello Jennifer,
I have twins age 8 months. They are still breastfeeding (thank you for your guides & support). When they were about 3-4 months, my husband and I have developed their sleeping habits so that they will sleep all through the night. However, when they reached 5-6 months, they start to wake up at 3-5 [...]
Your recovery depends on whether you’ve had a vaginal birth or a c-section and whether you’ve had other complications. If everything goes well, you can probably leave the hospital within two days after a vaginal birth, and within four days after a c-section. All new mothers can use lots of help recovering from birth and [...]
Whether you’re able to try for a vaginal birth depends a lot on how the babies are positioned in the uterus.
In about 40% of twin pregnancies, both babies are head-down. If that’s the case you can probably try for a vaginal birth, as long as you’re:
at least 33 weeks when you go into labor
your babies [...]
When you are pregnant with multiples you have a higher chance of complications during labor and birth. You could for example have a prolapsed cord when your water breaks, a placental abruption after the delivery of the first twin, and postpartum bleeding. Don’t let this scare you, but it’s good to know what will or [...]
Most doctors will tell you that twin pregnancies are higher risk, but this doesn’t mean you will have problems. Your doctor will definitely keep an eye on you, more than if you were pregnant with one baby. About half of all twins born are delivered before week 37.
Expect to have prenatal appointments every 2 to [...]
Prenatal tests like chorionic villus and amniocentesis can tell you if you are expecting fraternal or identical twins. These tests are difficult to perform, and you may not be able to get the DNA of each baby.
If you don’t want to have these tests, an ultrasound can tell you whether your babies are fraternal or [...]
Women usually discover they’re having more than one baby during a routine ultrasound, often in the first trimester.
Your doctor will probably recommend an ultrasound in your first trimester if you’re unusually large. The most likely explanation is that you or your practitioner miscalculated your conception date. The ultrasound will help you find out how far [...]
Identical twins are pretty unpredictable, but there are some factors that influence your chances of having fraternal twins:
Heredity: if you’re a twin or if twins run in your family, you’re slightly more likely to have them yourself. Women who are fraternal twins have a 1 in 60 chance of bearing twins.
Race: twins are less common [...]
Fertility drugs stimulate your ovary, which means you’ll have a bigger chance of releasing several eggs at the same time. About 20% of women taking gonadotropins will get pregnant with twins. Women who get pregnant while taking the drug Clomid have a 5 to 12% chance of twins. If you undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF), [...]
Having twins is becoming more and more common. This is mostly due to the fact that more women are taking fertility drugs to help them conceive. This treatment increases the chance of having twins.
For Chinese women the rate is 1 in 250 and for mixed Asian it is 1 in 125. The use of fertility [...]
