AboutElayne Glantzberg Expertise I can answer questions on PCOS, Clomid, spontaneous reduction, preterm labor, severe prematurity, micropreemies, NICU, how to raise triplets without outside help, life with triplets and more, cerebral palsy, visual impairments, Asperger's/autism, and breastfeeding.
Experience I have bgg triplets born in 1999 and three more boys born in 2002, 2006, and 2008, the last two by VBA2C (vaginal birth after 2 cesareans). My triplets were born at 26 weeks. My singletons were all full-term and fully breastfed. We have raised our triplets with no help and with a blind father. One of our triplets is also disabled with mild CP and mild autism, two have some vision problems, and one has had lung issues since birth.
Question i am starting clomid this cycle. i ovulate only some of the time, which is why, after 16 cycles, i am still not pregnant. i would love multiples, but a singleton is fine too. my husband and i wish to have another child(ren). is it possible that on such a low dose of clomid(50mg) a person can conceive twins or more? is there a better chance with a higher dose? my RE does monitor via ultrasound so that isnt an issue. i was just curous what are the chances of conceiving at all the first cycle?
Answer I seem to recall being told the chance of conceiving in any cycle was 20%. I don't know any statistics on different levels of Clomid. You start on a low dose because hyperstimulation of the ovaries can be a problem if you receive an overdose, and nobody can tell in advance what an overdose would be for a specific person. You have to go through the trial and error of gradually increasing the dose until it works.
Be very careful what you wish for. Having twins doesn't just double the work, it quadruples it. At the same time, most parents wind up so stressed and exhausted that they don't get to truly *enjoy* their children like they would a singleton. I wish like anything that I had gotten my children one at a time, so that I could have given them better attention and enjoyed them more. I don't remember much of their infancy at all, except as the facts of how I coped and the different strategies I used. Now that I have a singleton, I know what I and they missed that much more.
