Is it wrong to wish triplets on my friends??

What do you think?  You are probably wondering if you are the friend I am wishing it on?  I have actually narrowed that wish down to a couple people...still wondering if it is you?  I will settle for another set of twins if that makes you feel better!  The first time I went through pregnancy I had several dear friends going through it all at the same time and one of my best friends had a 1 year old (my god-daughter) so I had alot of guidance...now this time around I have friends who are pregnant with me...but I really want someone else to be learning about multiples...so they can teach me! 

I am honestly to tired to sit and read when I get home from work, so I have only gotten about 60 pages into my multiples book, and Gie Gie is super busy trying to get settled into their new house that they are in the process of buying...not to mention all of the sewing she has to get done!  We recently realized that we only have one Christening gown!  So now she is working on trying to get another one created to go with the one she made before my cousin Caroline was born.  She has her work cut out for her!

So I first said we know that these twins are fraternal, I was wrong.  They are most likely fraternal, but we cannot know that for sure yet.  I first said multiples do not run in our families, and then we thought maybe their was a link, but now we are back to there not being a link!  It is all very confusing.  So below I am going to share some info I stole off another mothers blog who has fraternal twins.  Her research matches up with what I have read so far:

-The average woman has a 3% chance of having twins, this is a 1 in 89 chance.  (There is magic math involved here...I know this makes no sense but it is what i have read)

-Most likely these twins are fraternal because they are in seperate sacs with seperate placentas.  Identical twins are more likely to have shared placentas or sacs depending on when the egg splits.  However, if the egg splits in the first three days while it is traveling down the falopian tube then you can have seperate sacs, so at this point we cannot know for sure!

-Fraternal twins are hereditary.  Identical are not. 

-Identical twins are a complete fluke and doctors do not fully understand why it happens.

-The fraternal twin gene can be passed down to children either by the father or the mother.  However, a man carrying the gene cannot effect the outcome of his own children being multiples. 

-The fraternal twin gene does not skip a generation.  If a woman is a fraternal twin, she's more likely to have fraternal twins. 

Now this last little bit I am stealing from another blog, and I am going to be reading more on it, because I do not fall into either of these categories as far as we can figure. 

-In order for a woman to get pregnant with fraternal twins, she would have to have the gene somewhere in her family (in most cases).  Otherwise, it would most likely be due to fertility treatments.  The gene, or the fertility treatments cause a woman to produce excess amounts of FSH, the follicle stimulating hormone, therefore allowing her to release 2 or more eggs at a time. 

For those of you who heard me say that we found out multiples do run in the family...I was wrong.  Two of Grandmary's syblings did have multiples, one a set of identical triplets, and another a set of twins.  However, these were both brothers of hers and therefore the multiple gene was in the mother who is not a blood relative of mine.  So I am still just a random 3 percenter. 

Anybody know anything else they want to teach me about twins?  Anything above sound incorrect?  And I promise to post some pictures soon, so Michael don't bother with your snarky comments!