natural conception

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Mon, 08-11-2003 - 11:44am
What exactly is natural conception date and mid cycle ovulation? I've heard that based

on these two days you can increase your chance of conceiving twins. How do I know to figure these two days out and track them? Any help would be great.
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Registered: 08-05-2003
In reply to: hstg
Mon, 08-11-2003 - 4:11pm
If anyone can help, please.
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Registered: 05-27-2003
In reply to: hstg
Mon, 08-11-2003 - 4:26pm
Unfortunately, I have no idea. I've seen "methods" on conceiving boy vs girl. But nothing on twins. Hope one of the other ladies can help out.

Teera

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Registered: 05-14-2003
In reply to: hstg
Mon, 08-11-2003 - 4:31pm
Oh, I am sorry no one has replied, but the truth is, I have no idea. I have never heard of that. I am sorry, and I hope that you find what you are looking for.

Oli

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Registered: 06-19-2003
In reply to: hstg
Tue, 08-12-2003 - 1:29am
Most women only release one egg per cycle. I don’t know of any way (besides fertility drugs) to change that. The idea of increasing your chances for identical twins is far fetched…. That’s based on genetics so far as I know. Sorry that I can’t help ya.

Melony

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Registered: 05-22-2003
In reply to: hstg
Tue, 08-12-2003 - 8:59am
Conceiving twins is not something you can really achieve on your own, unless you are taking fertility drugs or treatments. Fraternal twins are hereditary. If there are twins on the female's side of the family, then she is more likely to conceive twins. Identical twins are a fluke really. No genetic predisposition to identicals or fertility drugs make them happen. They just happen, and there's really no explanantion for it. As far as figuring out your fertile days. You can do that by charting your basal body temperature, cervical mucous and/or cervical position. I would suggest reading up on how to do all 3. There's a great book called Taking Charge of Your Fertility, that would be very helpful in answering all of your questions and explaining how to find your fertile days. Ovulation can vary for every woman. We don't all necessarily ovulate midcycle, some do earlier, some later. I hope this helps. Good luck.

Michelle

 

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Registered: 08-05-2003
In reply to: hstg
Tue, 08-12-2003 - 4:36pm
Thanks a lot everyone. I'm aware of my fertile days, but I wasn't sure what the difference between mid cycle ovulation and natural conception date. I thought it was all at the same time. Anyways, I ordered this program I saw on the web. You can choose the sex or you can choose twins. She can guarantee twins, but not the sex of the twins. It was based on these two dates. It says that there are only two days a month to conceive twins. She gives you those two crucial days and guarntees twins. But you have to have sex at least once between those two days and be careful the rest of the month. It's also based on a 12 month program, so it may not happen the first couple of months she said, but it will happen within those 12 months. It sounded very interesting and worth a shot. If it doesn't work out that way I will still be very happy. But she also guarantees it or your money back. So if I don't have twins I'll get my money back. Anyways I'm trying it so we'll see what happens.
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Registered: 07-02-2003
In reply to: hstg
Tue, 08-12-2003 - 5:03pm
Somewhere on these boards recently there was a post about that "program/kit/whatever" being a scam. The way you had to prove you didn't get what you wanted was to send out a copy of the birth certificate, which I don't think anyone would do. Too much identiy theft going around for sending out those kinds of documents. If you haven't already ordered that program/whatever you may want to do a little research.

Sorry if I sound negative I don't mean to, I do wish you the best of luck, but you know what they say about something sounding too good to be true......

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Registered: 07-09-2003
In reply to: hstg
Tue, 08-12-2003 - 6:17pm
... that sounds like the biggest scam I've ever heard... I'd look into it a little more if I was you.

Tami
Mommy to Anna 7.7.04 & Ben 11.19.06

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: hstg
Wed, 08-13-2003 - 12:19am
I didn't get your question when I answered it on another board. The reason no one knows what you are talking about is because the people at "Smart Stork" are full of it. There is only one ovulation occuring each month with most women. Even on the very first page of her introduction she states that *70%* of the women who concieved twins had a family history of twins.

From what I can tell they are calling the "natrual conception date" the date that is determined by charting your cycle, evident by fertile mucous, cp temp etc. Then the "mid cycle ovulation date" is just that, the middle of your cycle. If you ovulate with in 6 days of your "mid cycle date" then you have a chance to concieve twins. YOu have sex on the day you ovulate and the day in the middle of your cycle. Hmmmm, too many holes to try to plug... but what about the majority of the women who ovulate on day 14 of their 28 day cycle? It either means they would concieve twins every time (their natrual conception date IS their mid cycle date) or they would never concieve twins because they only get one chance (which is exactly what happens, you get one chance a month for conception)

There are a lot of women out there who track their cycles, and many of them do it to avoid pregnancy. If you ovulated 2x a month on a regular basis it would be nearly impossible to avoid. And if every one had the potential of concieve twins every month there would be many many more twins, and they would be concieved by anyone in the general public, not just to those with a family history of twins.

These people are either idiots or scam (my bet is a bit of both!) DO NOT waste any month time or effort on this "method". Unless you have a family history of twins, or there is some fluke causing identical twins, you have no chance of being sucessful.


Edited 8/13/2003 12:27:12 AM ET by iamamommy