 | I hope you won't be offended by my comments, but I hope I can convince you to reconsider. I am a physician, 32 years old like you and pregnant for the first time (with one baby). I can feel that clock ticking too, but I still think there is plenty of time for two or more children, if we decide that's what we want and we're lucky to get it that way. Unless you have any problems conceiving, I don't see why you couldn't have two pregnancies close together, and 'get it over with' that way.
Aside from what clomid could do to you before you conceive (and I actually hope no doctor will give it to a healthy woman), there are other issues.
First, clomid doesn't guarantee twins. The chances are increased compared to nature, but still only a few percent. Second, having twins carries a lot higher risk of all kinds of complications. The mom has more chance of getting diabetes or high bloodpressure or severe morning sickness or ecclampsia, and the babies of being premature and having problems during birth. Of course, the delivery is much harder and longer and much more likely to end in a C-section with the complications that come with that. And I'm not even talking about how taking care of two newborns will be much harder than one at a time..
Hope you will consider giving nature and your body the chance to do things the way they were intended; if you have problems you can deal with them as they arise. Keep us posted! Good luck |
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