The beginning

Although I’d been wishing for twins for quite some time, the conventional opinion regarding them is that nothing short of heredity or fertility drugs (and a few other set factors such as maternal age, race, and greater than average height and weight) can influence the chances of conceiving twins. So I just wished, without thinking there was anything I could do about it.

However, a few weeks ago, my husband suggested that if we prayed for twins, God would send them to us. After all, we prayed for him to help us come to Italy, and he did. He’s answered many other prayers in my life too. I pondered my husband’s suggestion for several days, and determined that I should indeed start praying for twins (although my baby now is not quite one, and we won’t be trying for another until next April when he’s older and our new international insurance will cover a birth).

Shortly after I decided this, I was doing shivasana after my yoga practice, and praying as I often do during that time. Suddenly, my mind was opened to an understanding of how God would help me conceive twins. Rather than just praying for him to send them to me, I thought, I should pray for him to help me learn how to help my body conceive twins.

It was an interesting paradigm shift. After all, I already know quite a bit about my fertile cycle. I chart when I actually have a fertile cycle (at the moment I have lactation-induced amenorrea; i.e. no period--and hence no ovulation--because I’m nursing). A few days later I was sick with some stomach ailment, and my husband gave me a blessing in which he told me that Heavenly Father would help me to understand my body better as I learned how to conceive twins and worked toward that goal.

Since that day, a few weeks ago, I’ve been searching the internet for ways to naturally increase my chances of having twins. Most of the information I’ve found is on message boards, where I’ve discovered there are quite a few other women with the same desire. Some hear the ticking of a biological clock, some have been told they can only have one more pregnancy, some would just like twins. Like me.