What do you think of giving twins separate birthdays...has anyone done this ?

[mozhe]

My DDs are one soon, we've strived to treat them as individuals from the start,ie; no dressing them the same, own belongings, don't refer to them as the twins and giving them individual time with self, DH and nanny..having said that they are very close and sleep in same cot,( v.big american cot-bed so not too squashed !),and babble away in their own little language to each other. I'm wondering if we should give them their own birthday celebrations as they were born either side of midnight they do actually have different birthdates...my DH is a twin and thinks this is odd but can't really say why...Agree it's more faff and won't really matter this year except I guess it might set a precedent for future birthdays ? What have other twin parents done...

Yes Legacy,that is the point really,it is always the same people here for their party and I wouldnt really expect people to put themselves out to come back the next day as well,(they would probably think it was the mad Irish in me).Also as Slightlyms says the surprise is ruined really for the second girl because my two mostly get the same presents for now anyhow.

Whilst they are young I would stick to one birthday.

Imagine the scenario: Ds2 is bawling his eyes out and throwing a wobbler because he wants presents, cards etc and doesn't want to wait until tomorrow as he's too young to understand that technically it is DS1's bithday but it isn't his birthday yet. He does feel that they are twins as they having an ever present brother will have been a big part of his life experience up until now.

Save the seperate parties for later.

Tres cool having twins on different days. I was up for that but my girls decided to pop out 11 mins either side of the 11 o'clock silence on armistice day! So I can always have peace and quiet to remember their birth and shed happy tears (and everyone around me who doesn't know me thinks I'm crying about ww2!)