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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah - I have 4 yo fraternity twin girls and there are some dumb/intrusive questions, though fewer as they’ve gotten older. The only one that still bothers me is the “do twins run in your family”, which is usually just a back door attempt to figure out if we did IVF. But for that and most of the others I go with good humored honesty because anything else is too much work. Now that they’re older, I actually like to have the girls answer the questions themselves: are you twins? Are you identical? Who’s older?… I think it succeeds in making the nosy strangers behave a bit nicer, and allows our responses to be a bit fuzzy bc, well kids answer stuff like this in funny, unexpected ways. (Full disclosure: I never confirm or deny fertility treatments, but folks almost never ask outright.) Sorry- no real advice for you but definitely able to commiserate. [/quote]

As someone who had some fertility treatments, I think you might be wrong about people fishing for IVF info.  To me when I see twins, I used to think Clomid.

Also, I do genealogy now and I've discovered a part of my family that does run with twins.  I've researched their ancestors, one of which had a pair of twins and also triplets.  Their village had more multiples than I would expect.  Sometimes that's genetic, sometimes diet (maybe), and sometimes maternal age.  So it is a curious phenomenon.

But I do understand passers-by can be intrusively nebby.[/quote]

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