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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see a lot of accidental 3 kid families lately, one older kid followed by twins. When I was growing up, I didn't know a lot of families with more than two. In fact, a lot of my friends were only children. [/quote]

How do you know the twins were an accident? And lots of twin accidents? You just live in a neighborhood where everyone is accidentally having twins after an older child. Mmmhmmm  :roll: [/quote]

[b]Uh, you can't just....have twins on purpose[/b]. You understand that right? Twins are spontaneous. Maybe some of these families would have gone for a third regardless, but they didn't plan their twins...[/quote]

They are much more common with fertility treatments. That’s what PP is talking about.[/quote]

As someone whose kids were conceived via fertility treatment, accepting the higher risk of multiples does not mean that you intend to have multiples. They’re still very much a surprise. [/quote]

But the pregnancy itself probably wasn’t a surprise. [/quote]

Let’s hope not. Fwiw I’m a twin and I have three children, none of whom are twins, but I knew that I was more likely than the average person to potentially have twins and I would not have been surprised. That’s why I have trouble wrapping my head around someone doing something that way statistically increases the risk of having twins and then being surprised. Maybe I understand probability better. [/quote]

I think you’d understand better if you’ve been through infertility. Maybe “surprise” isn’t the right word, because it’s not really surprising, but it is a bit shocking. When you’ve lost all hope in your ability to conceive at all, those twin numbers mean nothing to you. It’s not really logical at all, because your emotions take over. [/quote]

That may be what you're thinking, but it seems like people responding here saying all these 3rd babies are "oops!" aren't really understanding. It's not an oops when you go to a fertility specialist and implant two embryos, or one splits.[/quote]

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