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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
*Mrs. Destructo*
Hello! Welcome to the board! I don't post much, but I do have a question for you.
Do twins run in your family? If so, who had them before you?
My Grandma was an identical twin. I've never really thought one way or the other about it skipping generations and happening for us, but the other day I dreamt I had twins! It got me thinking. So I was just wondering if that happened with you?
Re: *Mrs. Destructo*
::butting in:::
only fraternal twins run in families, because you have to release more than one egg
at least that's how a medical person explained it
:::butting out:::
The PP is correct - the tendency to release more than 1 egg at a time is genetic, so if there are fraternal twins on the woman's side of the family she has a greater chance of having twins herself. I know of several women who are fraternal twins and have fraternal twin children.
The current thinking in the medical/scientific community is that identical twinning is nothing but a fluke of nature. However, there are theories that identical twinning may be genetic on the man's side, where some men may have an enzyme in their sperm that breaks apart the eggs, sometimes rendering two viable halves that grow into two people. Identical twinning is fairly rare (1 in about 250 live births), so these theories are hard to prove. There are rumors in our family that my husband's grandfather was a twin, but his twin died in early infancy. My H's great grandparents were very prim and proper and didn't really talk about this stuff so we'll never really know.
::butting in::
Mrs. D I saw your response in the baby names post, and had to say I've never met another person fond of the name Atticus. My H isn't really a fan, but I've loved that name since 6th grade when I read To Kill a Mockingbird.
Can't wait to meet my baby boy!
I've loved it ever since I read the book too! I tried to talk my H into it when I was pregnant, but he didn't like it. I bullied him into reading To Kill a Mockingbird and he still didn't like it. But NOW that our kids are 2.5 he likes it. It figures :-p
Wellllp looks like baby #3 can be an Atticus then
Can't wait to meet my baby boy!