Are people with polycystic ovaries more likely to have twins

[ClaireL90]

Are people with polycystic ovaries more likely to have twins?

Some medications used to treat infertility due to PCOS such as clomid can increase the chance of a multiple pregnancy...not PCOS on its own as far as I'm aware.

I googled it I don't know if it relates to pcos but pco I think is due to the random giving off of eggs

No. However you are more likely to conceive twins If:

There is a family history in the maternal side. It's the female side that counts because it's the ability to ovulate 2 eggs at the same time which is passed on. Identical twins are not hereditary. Only non identical ones.
-the other factor is age. Older people are more likely to conceive twins because your body produces more fsh to ovulate as you get older and sometimes your ovaries over react to this by producing 2 eggs at once.

I have direct experience of this- my mothers mother was a twin and i got pregnant myself with non identical twins age 36. Sadly twin 2 didn't make it though.

I have pcos although since birth of my first baby seems to have gone away! Anyway, I just lost a twin pregnancy at 9 weeks. I heard twins more likely because my ovaries are chucking eggs out randomly. Sometimes 2, sometimes none. I'm 34 this year so I'm not young. Plus the more pregnancies you have the more likely you are to have twins. Family history (fraternal twins) prior pregnancies, age all have an impact on your chances.

My brief twin pregnancy ended badly so I'm just hoping for one if I get lucky again!

It's not just on the maternal side. This "twin gene" (hyperovulation) can get passed down from father to daughter as well. If your father carried the recessive gene from one of his parents, it had no effect on the likelihood of his children being twins. However, he can pass this gene down to his daughters who will have a higher chance of conceiving frateral twins as a result of hyperovulation.