New scientific discoveries in the twin world

First let me say that I love my twin boys. I cannot imagine life without them. What I can imagine is an alternative universe where I was able to have them 2 or even (gasp) 3 years apart.

Having twins was unexpected. I found out when I was six weeks pregnant (which was only a week after I'd found out I was pregnant at all, since that too was unexpected.) Here's the scene at the ultrasound.

Midwife: Um, there are two in there.

Me: Two what?

As soon as I got in the car I called Marco, whose mother is a twin, to share the good news.

Me: (only half jokingly) This is all your fault.

That's the point at which he explained to me that fraternal twins are a result of two eggs and identical twins are the result of the egg splitting, neither of which had anything to do with him.

Now his so-called "science" is being called into question. We have no idea if our boys are identical or fraternal and according to news@nature, there's a very small possibility that they could be a little bit of both.

Comments

[Annie]

Nuh-uh! Identical twins are the result of the fertilized egg splitting. So, he's in there too. It's totally his fault. ;-)