Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People have kids later which means some people need IVF

Also you're more likely to have twins after age 35, notwithstanding fertility treatment

+1, it's not just IVF that increases no of twins.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like people are looking down on IVF users here. So people who can't get pregnant shouldn't use reproductive technology to assist them?

No one is looking down on anyone. But sometimes twin moms try and act like they’re so special with their insta family or tell atories of being “so surprised” when it was so very well planned.

You haven't spoken to me

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DC Area privates are full of twins. How many twins are in your kids' class? Which school?

From Bullis in '18: "Last night 143 students -- including 12 Lifers and six sets of twins.."

https://www.facebook.com/BullisSchool/photos/a.174332395899/10156225404480900/?type=3

Late marriages, geriatric pregnancies and IVF are common in affluent dual career couples, hence twins pairs are common at private schools.

And twins/multiples are expensive so affluent people can afford to have both and not "selectively reduce" or terminate.

Anonymous wrote:The DC Area privates are full of twins. How many twins are in your kids' class? Which school?

From Bullis in '18: "Last night 143 students -- including 12 Lifers and six sets of twins.."

https://www.facebook.com/BullisSchool/photos/a.174332395899/10156225404480900/?type=3

Late marriages, geriatric pregnancies and IVF are common in affluent dual career couples, hence twins pairs are common at private schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The overall rate of twins in the US is 3.1% of all pregnancies. The OP cited 6 of 137 pregnancies or 4.4%. That seems not ridiculously higher than the general population, and definitely explainable through older and richer parents.

8.8 percent of the class was a twin!

But the national rate is per pregnancy. I’m assuming that the twins in the class were likely twins of one another, so the same pregnancy

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like people are looking down on IVF users here. So people who can't get pregnant shouldn't use reproductive technology to assist them?

No one is looking down on anyone. But sometimes twin moms try and act like they’re so special with their insta family or tell atories of being “so surprised” when it was so very well planned.

You’re projecting onto twin moms. If they did IVF, nothing about TTC went according to plan.

And your point is…?

This is a really stupid thread to be on the Private & Independent Schools forum.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like people are looking down on IVF users here. So people who can't get pregnant shouldn't use reproductive technology to assist them?

No one is looking down on anyone. But sometimes twin moms try and act like they’re so special with their insta family or tell atories of being “so surprised” when it was so very well planned.

Huh? Sometimes it's literally unplanned. Newsflash: People do have twins under age 35 and without fertility treatments.

What do you have against twins? And yes. It probably has to do with IVF to some extent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two sets of twins in a grade of 25 students.

Which school??

Congressional, in a class that recently graduated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IUI is more likely to generate twins. For IVF, it’s rare to transfer more than one embryo and has been for a while. My IVF child is 9, and back in 2014 the standard of care already was “one embryo at a time.”

Also identical twins are always spontaneous…

Not really.

Yes really.

SET = Single Embryo Transfer

“Over the last decade, the percentage of SET among all patients increased dramatically, from 20.6% in 2011 to 80.4% in 2020, and this trend was identified among all age groups”

https://www.cdc.gov/art/reports/2020/summary.html#

Interesting change - although kids in high school now were born in ~ 2005 - 2009.

I think so many people are mis-informed on how IVF actually works. If you transfer one embryo, you are likely to have one baby. Some people transfer multiples (which many doctors will not do given how risky multiple pregnancies are), but I would say that is not a common IVF practice. What's more likely is people are taking fertility meds due to age which will cause multiple eggs to release, which could result in fraternal twins.

Likely not IVF in future years, since transferring more than one embryo is no longer medically favored. As others have said, Clomid/Letrozole alone, or followed by IUI will be the more likely cause of twins.

But…why do you need to know? What do you gain from deducing that some of your parent peers struggled to conceive?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like people are looking down on IVF users here. So people who can't get pregnant shouldn't use reproductive technology to assist them?

No one is looking down on anyone. But sometimes twin moms try and act like they’re so special with their insta family or tell atories of being “so surprised” when it was so very well planned.

Twin mom, used IVF. No, twins weren't planned. Had two unsuccessful embryo transfers. Was surprised both embryos took 3rd time. Don't think I'm so special. Love my kids, but I'm tired.