Question

I read an article that mentioned that women on clomid may be more likely to get pregnant with twins, triplets, or more! the article said that normally there is a dominant follicle that releases a single egg, but clomid can potentially make lots of follicles release an egg in a given month. How does clomid do that?

Answer 1

In normal pregnancy, the drop in gonadotropin levels will cause follicles to stop maturing, except for the dominant follicle. Clomid causes gonadotropin levels to remain elevated, allowing other follicles to also fully mature like the dominant follicle. This leads to more offspring.