To ask for full twin disclosure?

[nowlook]

So many posters have twins! And given it can be easy to forget from one thread to the next whether you've had a multiple birth, I wondered if a general twin register might be helpful. Feel free to have a good rummage around at home to see if you have any.

1. nowlook (no twins)

It’s really shit having twins as a Mumsnetter - apparently everything you say is then considered with suspicion because of it. I’ve been here quite a while now and it definitely seems to happen less.

Having twins isn’t weird to me - found out I was having twins at 12 weeks, joined my local twin group and made lots of friends. Most of my mum friends have twins, my Facebook feed is constantly full of twins etc. I guess some people might not know any families with twins but I find the disbelief really weird. It’s not that uncommon.

11 yo triplets here!

I am a sibling to twins. And one of my twin siblings has twins.

This made me laugh, my sisters are twins (well technically triplets, my brother died soon after birth- but it’s hard to explain that constantly so they’ve always been ‘the twins’)
A good friend has triplets the same age as my middle one, my eldest has best friends who are twins.

I didn’t know it was weird on here! As a teacher we had twins in most year groups, often a few sets and occasionally triplets (interesting deciding how to split them up in a two form entry school!). I have presumed the majority I know are non-IVF as they are the 2nd/3rd/4th in birth order in their families and often close in age to siblings.

I have grown up twins.
When they were very young there were three sets of twins in their class of 14 children.

I'm currently pregnant with DC3 and my main preoccupation at my first scan was that whether it would be twins or not (I am old, there are twins in my family)

My OB has twins (b/g) and admitted she always felt sorry for any patients who were expecting twins, especially as their first pregnancy, as she knew first hand what hard work it could be!

@Pottedpalm I remember with my eldest when we applied to primary, we only lived 0.26 miles from school but three sets of twins actually lived closer than we did- contributed I think to a tiny cut off distance!

My godmother has twin boys.
I am also a twin, although sadly my twin sibling was stillborn.

@Pottedpalm

I have grown up twins. When they were very young there were three sets of twins in their class of 14 children.

You weren’t in the northwest at the time, were you?

At one point our school had 13 sets of twins, so 26 out of 200 children.

Does anyone find that when a word is used over and over again it no longer sounds like a real word.

Twins...

My dad's a twin, and my sisters dad's a twin. My DM also dated another twin for a few years in-between our fathers. Running theme for her apparently. We make back-up jokes of course

I have twins. I don’t really care if you believe me or not, as long as I remember to look after them, that is the main thing! Incidentally they are not IVF, I wasn’t old or overweight. And there are twins everywhere when you start looking. Weird to think people would be making it up.

No, Midlands. I do have a vague memory of seeing news items about a school with a huge number if twins, though.

My cousins are twins. My dad's an Irish twin!

@Thornrose haha! Yes.

No twins but my younger sisters are twins.

113: MissKeithsNeice - No twins

And in case my credibility is in any doubt, can I also add: Penis Beaker, Naice Ham, Super Soaker etc etc.

I am an identical twin, my dh is an identical twin. My ex partner was a non identical twin.
None ivf, we're all far too old for that.

@Thornrose

Does anyone find that when a word is used over and over again it no longer sounds like a real word.

Twins...

Yes, it sounds all wrong now

Lovely to see all the RL twins and twin-knowers though.

No twins here, but I'd like to add that women of West African descent are more likely to have twins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Predisposing_factors Anecdotally I've known many over the years in my part of London. There are even special names for twins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-37912748

I have twins but they died the day they were born, so they are no longer with us. I also have two living older children. I used to think twins were really rare as well as baby loss, certainly baby loss late in pregnancy. Turns out not.
Half my work team have twins or are twins and I find it incredibly difficult, I find the twin thing harder than e.g. seeing singleton babies.

Why would you make it up anyway? I was 37 when I had my boys.

I have twins. I also have one of those stories that I’m sure people don’t believe. Dd1 was very very ill and died when she was young. I was about the start ivf (using donor sperm) to avoid recurrence of her condition and fell pregnant naturally with twins.
I don’t know why people would make it up...

Sign me up.

3 week old boy girl twins over here.

And a 22 month old DD.

3 kids under 2 years old.

Every day is like the real life hunger games

Pass the coffee 😂😂😂

I had no idea this was a thing! I didn’t realise posting about having twins automatically made me sound suspicious. There’s another 3 sets in my twins school year, so not at all uncommon.