Twins without a family history?

Question

At the moment my husband and I are not actively trying to conceive. I will be finished with my degree next year and then we are going revisit the baby talk.

About 10 years ago when I was 18 I went to a psychic on the boardwalk with my high school best friend (I know). The woman stared at me for a few then said "you will have twins....boy girl twins and you will marry your high school sweetheart." At the time I didn't have a boyfriend, so I didn't read too much into it. I was more freaked out than anything. 8 years later I married my highschool boyfriend.

My family has experienced many tragedies within the the past few years so we have been connecting with a well known psychic medium in our neighborhood to help us heal spiritually. In our family reading today she mentioned that new life will continue to come into our family a year or so after the birth of my sisters little girl this October. Everyone in our family is a girl.... and every girl has only had girls (so far). I asked the psychic medium if she could see a specific gender, and she said "I see twins, not identical - I see boy/girl twins." It may not be related directly to myself and my immediate family but I am curious of situations in which twins have occurred without any knowledge of twins running on either side of the family. My husband and I cannot think of twins on either sides of our families. I guess twins have to start somewhere. Boy/Girl twins would be awesome.

Does anyone else have boy/girl (or b/b, g/g) twins without any knowledge of twins running in their family? I'm curious to see the chances of this happening to myself of one of my sisters.

Thanks for reading! 
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There are factors in which you have a higher chance of having twins which include family history, but also your age (supposedly women who are older have a higher chance of having twins), you've been pregnant before, you're tall, you're African American, and you're under going IVF treatments. Sorry to say but I don't know anyone who's had twins without having any family history of it. The only cases I've heard of that happening is when the couple goes through IVF treatments. And even with a family history, it still doesn't mean you will have twins. My friend's dad has a twin brother, his fiancée is currently pregnant with twins but the first time she wasn't and his mom gave birth to him and a couple years later, his sister.

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I don't know the chances exactly, but I do know that having IDENTICAL twins is NOT genetic. But having FATERAL twins is. If a women is a faternal twin, her chances of having faternal twins is 2.5 times more likely. This would be your case considering that identical twins are the same gender.

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Oh snap I'm a twin, my mom was a twin, an there's a few other twins in our family. Both mom an dads side the family. But I have a son no twins yet. My twin sisters pregnant now with her fiancé but it's one baby too. Me an my finances trying for something. Baby dust to us all.

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I have no first hand knowledge, however my mother-in-laws first cousin (so my husband's 2nd cousin) got pregnant with identical twin boys & there is absolutely no other twins on that side of the family.

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Fraternal twins are typically hereditary.  My mom is a fraternal twin, and it supposedly skips a generation.  I don't know how true this is, but that's what I have heard.  On my dad's side, I have two sets of fraternal cousins, and one of those cousins had a set of identical twins.   Everyone was betting I would have twins, as I am in my mid 30's, but nope...just a single baby!

I honestly think a lot of that is chance.

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Twins are completely possible without family history! Research it :p and also, even if the fathers side has twins, it doesn't affect the chances. Likelihood for twins is passed maternally, not paternally

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Before my grandmother had identical twin girls, we had no prior history of twins. But my grandfather had fraternal twin brothers. No prior history for his side either.
We are in our third pregnancy and our doc visit is in two weeks and we are wondering if it's twins again because my husband has a ton on his line!
So, there's a chance but i think its slimmer.

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A high school friend conceived triplets naturally. No intervention of any kind. Neither she nor her boyfriend have a history of multiples.

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Do you take the pill currently? If the pill is taken incorrectly and is missed, it can cause some women to ovulate twice in one month and create fraternal twins.

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I got pregnant with g/g twins with no history. They were identical which happens spontaneously and doesn't have to be genetic.  Unfortunately we lost them both to twin to twin transfusion syndrome @ 20 weeks. But it definitely can happen!

Twins without a family history?

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