After coming from a family with seven siblings, I guess it didn't seem so strange to me to want to have a large family myself. But what  is more unusual is how intensely I longed to have twins for eight out of nine of my own pregnancies!  My keen interest in multiple births, was the stimuli that got me going on the book: Two Mothers, Twin Daughters, a story about mother's love and separated twins.  This book may or may not be available, but please wait to buy your copy because I am revising it, and I think you will be impressed with the changes.