Celebrity Twins!!

It's incredible to me how many celebritites are having twins!! They are ALL over the magazines at the checkout counter of the supermarkets and everytime I look there's another set of celebrity twins. Jennifer Lopez, Marcia Cross, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Hamm, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, and Elvis Costello (just to name a few) are all new parents of twins and the list goes on and on. In fact, I recently came across some celebrity feedback on our Wombmates shirts at http://www.wombmates.com/ I guess that's my brush with celebrity for this year.

It makes sense that the number of celebrity twins is increasing for all the same reasons that the rate of twins is increasing in the general population. The incidence of twin births is on the rise for women in general, not just for those who are famous. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, people on average are waiting longer to start families. Women over the age of thirty are more likely to conceive twins than younger mothers. Second, women in their thirties and forties are more likely to struggle with infertility than those in their twenties. Twin births are more likely when conception is assisted with the use of fertility drugs and techniques such as in vitro fertilization. It should be noted that all of the mothers mentioned above were over thirty at the time they conceived their twins. I was over 30 when my twins came along as well. I guess now I have at least two things in common with these celebs!!