One in Four Means Two

Here's another tip from babycenter.com: your overall odds of having twins in a pregnancy is 1 in 32. Triplets is 1 in 555.

Only 12 percent of twins are identical (aka monozygotic). That means there's a lot of fraternal twins out there. Apparently, 20-25 percent of women who do fertility treatments end up with a multiple pregnancy. That's like 1 in 4. Statistically, we are 8 times more likely to have twins than your average couple. I don't think we have to worry though. We didn't do IVF, and I bet most of the multiple births come from there. In those instances, they introduce 3 or 4 embryos into the uterus. Sounds like a surefire way to get fraternal twins, if you ask me.

Having twins has its disadvantages, but it can be good too. We have 4 years of "childlessness" to make up for, and two babies at once would go a long way towards catching us up to such prolific family planners as my brothers and sister. Not only that, it cost more than $2,000 for the treatments. Twins is pretty much 2 for 1. Despite these wonderful advantages, I still don't think R is cheering for twins. Heck, who can imagine where she's going to put one baby during pregnancy, let alone two? The ultrasound is a week from now, so we'll find out more then.

You're not supposed to count your chicks until they're hatched, but I think that saying came out before they invented ultrasound machines. Who can resist the urge to count babies when they have an ultrasound machine?