Twins Run in the Family

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Adult identical sisters hold 4-year-old identical sisters.






Does your family have multiple multiples?


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  1. My brother and his wife have fraternal twins and I have identical twins- which cracks the entire family up since there are no twins anywhere else in the family lines- yet somehow both my mom’s kids (aka my brother and I) ended up with spontaneous twins. Pretty funny- and a huge support to each other indeed :)

  2. You know I do! I’m a triplet (all girls – no idea if we are all fraternal or if two of the three are identical) and I have twins. But sadly that’s it. It would have been cool if my other sisters also had multiples.

    1. I thought of you when I was writing this post! I’ve been meaning to ask you if you had other relatives who were also multiples.

  3. My great-grandmother on my maternal side, had TWO sets of twins, a set of boys and a set of girls. I don’t know if they were identical, however, but two sets seems to suggest they weren’t.

    However, they usually say if it runs in the family it skips a generation… but that would have been my mother. My mother however, never had a set of twins, despite having eleven pregnancies.

    I am also the only one of my siblings to have twins. My daughters are the only set of twins among my parents’ 25 grandchildren.

    However, my husband’s one and only sibling, his older sister, has identical twins. So, for his parents, both of their kids had twins! Crazy.

    I also have a cousin who had twins, but it’s not super prevalent in my family, despite my great-grandma having two sets!

    1. It seems from the comments that the generation-skipping isn’t all that common for families with multiple multiples. It probably depends on the type of twin.

  4. Yes, my fraternal g/g twins are the 9th set in the past 70 years in my mom’s family. My maternal grandma had twins (sadly they were stillborn), my mom had identical twins, my mom’s brother is dad to fraternal twins (clearly not running in the family), and there are several other sets. At my mom’s family reunion 2 years ago, my 2.5-year-old daughters were just the latest set of twins!

    My daughters are the first set of twins ever on my husband’s side of the family, so we’ve had the benefit of excitement from his family and practical wisdom from my family. Very ideal!

    I am very open about our IVF experience and infertility, but it’s nice to have a “cover” sometimes if I don’t feel like getting into the details or I simply want to enjoy feeling connected with my mom, grandma, and other relatives.

    1. No kidding! The girls’ great aunt always send them the perfect gifts: coordinated, but not matching. I’m sure she learned the hard way with triplets. It’s also lovely to watch the bond between the triplets and the twins. They get each other in a very special way, and the triplets’ older brother has always been more affectionate that you would expect of a typical teenage boy.

  5. its so cool that so many pepole have “twins in the family ” i defenitly do, i myself am an identical twin, my grandmother was also an Id twin , my twin margret also had identical twins and i have had 2 sets of identical twins

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