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You are welcome Mama Beans??...is there another bean in the oven?? or is the beanS a mistake? Well I hope it is good news! I know my response was not eloquent, but some feelings are hard to put into words.

Yes, the "s" is on purpose. We just discovered that I am indeed pregnant again! Quite surprised, with my first pregnancy being such a medical headache.. I was just taking red raspberry leaf tea, and eating yams ( as well as making hubby wear boxers) and we got lucky! My doctor was SHOCKED that this worked! U-S in 2 weeks to see the heartbeat. Fun Fun!

That is so wonderful!! I am very happy for you! I bet you can't wait for the u/s. Red raspberry leaf tea and yams, that is a great all natural fertility treatment!. Do you have a due date yet? Congratulations!!!

congratulations mama bean! am sincerely happy for you..hopwfully you will have successful pregnancy....keep us updated on how it goes.... ps: why are you on the multiple boards??do you think you may have conceived twins?? am still waiting for af...am cd118...don't think am pregnant...have ordered the shettlers method of how to choose the s_x of your baby and am hoping to try that too to get a girl...giving myself the best chances of everything..since it will be my very last pregnancy...but in the end my main prayer is to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy child or children....baby dust to all that are ttc!!!

Well, Yas2000, I started out on this particular multiple board because I have a friend that is pregnant with twins.. I stayed here because most of the treatments a normally fertile woman would try in order to get multiples are the same treatments that an infertile woman can try in order to just conceive..

Are there any other stories out there as to why you want multiples?

i was pregnant with twins (boys) and i lost them at 20 weeks terrible thing. i was my third pregnancy natural twins run alot in my family. so i would like 2 have another set, not to replace them cause i could never replace them but 2 fill a void in my heart.

So sorry for your loss, Yolanda. Best of luck to you.

I have few points that i would like to share with you guys; First, let us not fight, let's discuss; Everyone feels offended seeing different or opposite point of view, but it is normal, and that's one of the reasons why we have forums on the net, that we can discuss! I think you should try to understand why people like mama-beans are trying to get on your nerves, what she feels is what someone would feel when looking at the mother physically harming her child (like pregnant woman smoking); of course it's her own business whether she is smoking or not; of course her child doesn't need to get sick from it; further, the mother doesn't need to justify it in front of mama-beans or anyone else but some people just feel they need to say something when seeing this and as far as i see mama-bean has really tried to be understanding and polite; i know i will get a lot of insults for the example i have used above and it might be a bit strong, but isn't this really true, that most of you using unprescribed medication in order to have multiples do so knowing they are risking thier future children's health? i still cannot see what could be a good reason for doing this; someone said earlier that she is taking clomid, because of earlier miscarriage; now if you have miscarried, which must have been a very very difficult time for you, you are already in somewhat higher risk pregnancy category, why would you want to put your future pregnancy/ children in even higher risk; why would you rather not try to increase the chances of the one big healthy baby you can naturally have? i would never attempt to avoid doctors after such a difficult experience! another point that amazes me is that many of you say they are very healthy women who had big babies before (strong breeds) and therefore a__sume they should not have any problem carrying 2 or 3; the problems that usually arise with multiples are not related to the mother being weak or subfertile but are related directly to the 'multiples' issues; you can talk to many many women who have experienced both (maybe follow 'expecting twins' threads on this site), who had easy pregnancy with one baby and then had multiple pregnancy, which was nothing like the singleton; it's just higher risk, no matter how strong or fit you are; i just thought this should be mentioned as it seemed from some posts that women think their risk are somewhat lower or that they are pre-disposed for carrying multiples. i think the main point for discussion, if anyone still wishes to discuss anything should be the baby's health, let's forget about difficulties with pregnancy itself, if you are really willing to go through those, or financial implications, taxes, state support etc; most important is that you can really justify increasing the risks for your babies' health; i mean to yourself, whether you will try to let others, like mama-bean or me understand, that's really not that important; last, let me say that i wish everyone good luck and i really sincerely wish that none of us will have to see our babies suffer in any way and that all the pregnancies, no matter how achieved, will result in beautiful big healthy and happy babies.

Sorry Mama-beans, this isn't an answer to your question, but rather a response to the one previous to mine. Actually, it is doc_mented in several twin books written by doctors, that certain types of women are preferred to carrying twins. Not that there is a choice really, but when it comes to healthy twin pregnancies with no problems, and full term pregnancies, it tends to fall within a certain category of women. Just because you fall in that category, doesn't mean you'll have a perfect pregnancy, obviously. But it does mean that your chances for doing so are much higher.

Hi I am new here but I would like to say would love to have twins.My last preg was a twin preg but one baby died very early.My ultasound was done very early b/c i didn't know my last period and they found twins.When the other baby died the doc said twins are more common but ultrasounds are not done early enough to tell and some women lose the other baby and never even knew.But I knew and i blame my self and if i had twins again then maybe i wouldn't feel like a failure.The other baby is very healthy though i love him so much.i know it won't bring the other baby back but i would feel better,but i wouldn't go taking meds or anything to make it happen.i would want it to be natural,but i do know the risks involved and would want healthy babies.my cuz had twins last year full term and one was 7 lbs 2 oz the other was 6lbs 11oz. i was so jelouse.

Name: nobody special | Date: September 21, 2005, 21:51 Answer: i want twins because i have always wanted 3 kids. we have 1 and my husband says no more kids. so, i got clomid off the internet without my husband knowing, and i hope to get pregnant with twins by "accident". this way i get what i want and my husband will learn to accept it. dumb dumb dumb

I am 29 and already have 3 beautiful children, I carried all of them full term. I have very difficult deliveries and after the first two had to have reconstructive surgery to repair a recto-v____al fistula and remove a lot of scar tissue in the v____a. Then shortly after I had an ovarian cyst removed then had my last child cecerian due to the fact that too much skin was removed and a baby would no longer fit through the opening . We have been ttc sence may, and I did conceive in June and had a mc at 5 wks. I found out I have low progesterone now and my Dr put me on clomid in September. I havn't had the best of luck with birth control or the clomid, I have had a lot of adverse reactions from all of it. We would like 5 children and as you can see we would do almost anything to get them here. We would love twins just so we can perminatley be done and I can heal completely and start enjoying each and every one of them.

Good luck to you DP. I wish you well!

Mama BEans, how are you feeling?? Do you know how far along you are? Take Care!

Hi Jill! I'm 8.5 weeks, due June 10. I'm just pretty tired and nausious... nothing I didn't expect! Thanks for asking!