On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >>>> It is all the people who have MORE children >>>> than Jon who are the real problem! >> >>> He had 2. >>> I have 3. >>> Can I really help that the second pregnancy was with >>> *twins*? (And no, >>> there were no fertility drugs or any other assistive >>> reproductive >>> technology things involved, I just have enthusiastic >>> ovaries.) >>> Julia >> >> think of it as "evolution in action"... I also had two wives. the >> first >> one died, and the second is still fertile and will probably remarry >> and >> have a whole passel of brats!~) both my parents were the youngest of >> nine. of their five offspring only i reproduced twice (i think), my >> sisters and one brother had one each, the other brother didn't >> reproduce, so we are spiraling down... >> jon > > Yeah. My brother-in-law hasn't reproduced, to the best of my > knowledge, > so my husband and I have replaced ourselves, plus him. (And the > gender > balance works out that way, as well!) > > But, at this point, I really don't want anyone who's not shooting > blanks > anywhere near my enthusiastic ovaries. The last thing I need now is > triplets.... > > Julia
Briefly delurking from a beyond-hectic life to announce that I also gave birth to second-pregnancy twins 4 months ago! (3 weeks short of 4 years after my eldest daughter Suzanna was born) They are fraternal girls so we're not replacing my brother-in-law (or brother for that matter) in gender, only kind. We named them Gemma and Elina and they are already showing very different characters and temperaments as well as looks. It's fun to compare. :) And they are also the result of enthusiastic ovaries - I have no history of twins on the female side of my family. One theory blames age - between 36 and 39 - for increased chance of multiples, another blames folic acid which we're told to take pre-conception to prevent spina bifida, and yet another blames increased consumption of lactic products which are laced with growth & other hormones. They may have all influenced as I was 36 at time of conception, I consume a lot of cottage cheese and other milk products, and I was taking folic acid - though only for about a month - previous to conception. Needless to say we are beyond busy & tired now but also very much in love with our brood and stupidly unable to commit to sterilization just yet. Must be the baby hormones, because about 2 years after my first I couldn't care less if I never had another one, she was perfection to me and I couldn't picture going through all that baby stuff again - yet here I am! Knee deep in baby poop & puke and dreading possible triplets... (still loving that cottage cheese, and only 37 yrs old...) In any case, it poses the question: shouldn't our kind of people (the rational, well balanced, intelligent thinking kind) have a responsability to reproduce more than we do? Because it's us brainy types who will have to come up with a solution to all this overpopulation and lack of sustainability on mother Earth. And it's been pretty much proven now that intelligence *is* hereditary, with nurture by intelligent parents an important contingency to utilizing said intelligence for the greater good... Ticia ',:) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
