Your fav twin story

[anjlix]

Hi all, as a would be mother of id twins I would love to hear your stories of being pregnant/delivering/raising twins/multiples.

One of the fond moments was when I was on the Tube reading a twin book and heard 3 different people start talking about twins in general.

Or when I was at the hospital and MW assumed I had one baby. 'Lets check the baby's heartbeat'. I caught myself thinking 'No one has one baby at a time!'...LOL

penona gawd that stinky bum is funny.

MERLTPUSS great idea on the apple juice. I will have to remember to file that one. Another one some one told me is to always count sprinkles on their cupcakes. ALWAYS

Keep rolling.....

Hi, my DTs are now almost 8. When they were four, they confidently announced that they would marry each other! (they are boy/girl twins by the way!!) They also toilet trained together and would sit on the potty at the same time and giggle at each other doing a wee. They also spent countless hours running laps round the house and chasing each other.

When they got older and were learning to read, they would spend ages reading stories to each other at bedtime, which I loved watching. Luckily they both learned reading at the same rate so were able to encourage each other.

They were each other's best buddies at school. Now they are older they have different friends but still look out for each other at school and comfort each other when upset (as well as having almighty arguments - I remember the time when Save the Children came round collecting door to door and I said "you can save mine if you want!" He looked shocked, and ran away!!!)

I can't believe it's almost 8 years since they were born - time really does fly. Enjoy the baby years, yes it is really hard work, but totally worth it.

Mine were about 1 yr old, well before they could talk, and they were crawling around the bedroom floor, naked, whilst I found their pyjamas. One of them started babbling at the other, they both laughed and then symultaneously weed on the floor! they definitely discussed the idea in baby babble and then did it. They looked very pleased with themselves!! It was so funny.

yeah kiwimum we are also looking forward to them entertaining each other.

kathryn funny communication story.

Is it really true that twins talk to each other while in babble phase? any one else had any experience with this?

Oh definitely!
DD is always telling DS off! They will also look at each and chatter a little before both dissolving into peals of laughter.

DS likes to stalk the cat, when he finds him he chatters something and DD comes crawling along to help!

I'm definately outnumbered in this house!

my 11mth old DTS "talk" to each other on the "phone" from each others cots across the room by standing up in their cots and holding a hand to their ear, saying hi/hewo and babbling strange intonations like a phone conversation complete with giggles. its very cute to watch

mine are 5 - and constantly talk about where they will live (together) when they are grown up - it seems a given with them that they will be together.

I wonder when that will change.

My b/g twins are 5 (nearly 6). They are the best of friends then the worst of enemies!

They completely ignored each other until they were about 14 months old. I was seriously worried as everyone was always talkiing about the special bond they must have.

They are now devoted to each other and when they walk down the road holding hands it fills my heart with joy.

anjlix - enjoy every precious minute - it goes so fast!

teasleepfood my husband and I had a huge laugh thinking about your cat stalker kids. We have a cat too and she is very paranoid. She is suspicious of every one but DH. I wonder how this is going to work with her. LOL lulururu, throckenholt, louMacca, thanks for sharing. Should we make it mandatory that for any one who posts on this thread should put a pic of their kids and themselves. It would be so lovely to see some real faces.

I don't have twins, but I am one. Apparently when we were babies, if my Dad took us out in the pram, sometimes other children would come and look in it, and he would say to them "Look at our double-headed baby!"

Also, when we were toddlers, my Mum had just bathed us and put us in clean clothes, and put us down on the floor in the sitting room. She went off to fetch something from another room, and when she came back we were both black all over, and she was just in time to see one of us handing the other one another piece of coal from the coal scuttle!

Once I had to spend a week with DT1 at my mother's, whilst DH went with DT2 to my in-law's. When I returned, I had DT1 in a single buggy and DH met me at the airport with DT2 also in a single buggy. As we walked to the car, the twins reached out their hands to each other and held them, looking at each other. They were so happy to see each other, it was a heartswelling moment for me.

My twins don't yet play with each other much (they are 2 years old), but occasionally they will invent a "game" that puts them in hysterics. One is where each sits on an arm of the sofa, so they face each other. They clap their hands whilst going "la-la-la" to each other, and then both throw themselves onto the sofa in a fit of giggles.

When one is crying, the other will often go and get their favourite soft toy from their cot, and give it to them.

I'm not going to dwell on the fact that they fight with each other....

One DT tells the other off, which is most amusing. This was particularly great when it related to food the other DT had dropped on the floor. I thought, "exactly!".

An advantage of twins is that you can see more clearly when some aspect of childrearing isn't your fault; for example, when one twin eats well, and the other doesn't, you know the badly-eating twin's habits are not down to you!

All the best with your pregnancy Anjlix,

hi all and anjlix - good to hear the nice stories although i admit i am also finding the "do you resent the fact you had twins" thread also quite heartening! anjlix i've put some photos up now

My two are two yrs now, boy/girl and the girl is very chatty. My boy was going something wrong- cant remember what it was- but then stopped and my little girl started saying "well done R--!, good boy!" and patted him. Also when he is crying she strokes him and goes and gets one of his fav. toys to cheer him up.

Not quite a twin story.

I was out with my 4month old twins and my nearly 2 toddler and was asked if they were triplets.

When I finaly finished laughing I managed a no but it is still the most ridiculuos thing I've heard so far.

Gosh I started this thread when I was panicking pregnant. It was so nice to re-read all the stories. My fav moment so far was some random twin toddlers peering in our buggy asking us why are our twins so tiny and why their legs dont reach the bottom of the buggy.

I've thought about something v good about identical twins. If they are very good looking or talented and want to make a living from it, then they will have an instant gimmick which will boost their fame and give them an edge on the competition!

Too shallow?

I was at a wedding and the 'best man' was two identical, totally bald, good looking guys. Was absolutely fab.

Hope your journey as a twin mum is going well anjlix! Im new to mumsnet and thought i would add my litte gems of twinhood...my identical girls are now 15months, and over last year i have noted the following..

1.The days where its all been too much, have been outweighed 10 times over with very happy joyous moments of looking at my beautiful girls and feeling very very proud indeed

1. Everyone thinks you are a super uber mum for having twins, i reguarly hear 'how do you do it?'...to which i smile mysteriously - only us twin mums know dont we?!

1. The girls are great company for each other, even if they do annoy each other too, the moments they smile at each other and hold hands is priceless.

1. I like to think to myself when the going has been tough, i was meant to have twins as im a strong person - double the work, but double the love!!

Above all enjoy every moment, dont be afraid to ask friends and family for help when you are dog tired, and dont feel guilty for feeling you need time out - you will all benefit from it!

Good luck

Am 30 weeks pg now and when people say 'are you overdue' and I say 'I have 2 months left', they tend to reply 'is it twins or triplets'?

Anyway one such lady said to me yesterday 'I had 2 as well. I went into hospital at 29 weeks and was there until the twins were 4 weeks old, 3 months later. They prescribed bed rest because I had high blood pressure. They were both over 7 pounds though. Do you know what made them so big? When I was in hospital I had a pint of guinness and a bacon sandwich every night'.

lol, this is such a good thread for the pregnant with twins! Morale raising!

The only story anyone has told me about twins was "my twins used to look at each other and then run off in opposite directions, leaving me to choose who to chase first"

Not exactly reassuring!

My twins are nearly 3. They both had chicken pox recently, though, annoyingly, a fortnight apart. When Twin1 was ill, Twin2 stayed home from nursery as we were supposed on be on holiday that week. However, when Twin2 got it, Twin1 went to nursery. It was the first time they'd been apart from each other like that for any length of time. Twin2 and I were doing a jigsaw. She got half way though, and then stopped and said "Daisy (Twin1, obviously) has done that bit, so now I will do the rest". Freaky. But cute.

We took our 16 month old twin boys on the underground today.

Usual questions from a Nigerian lady sitting next to us .... twins? .... two boys? .... who was born first? etc etc

She then started to rifle in her handbag - I thought that she was trying to find a camera to a picture of them (we have had all sorts of strangers taking pics of them in the past) - but she takes out a £10 note and tries to give it to DH. DH is horrified and very politely refuses.

She goes on to say something to the effect that "I know you are not beggers but in Nigeria it is very good luck to see twins and you must give them a gift"

We again refuse and she eventually gave up. Very very embarrassing. It was probably rude to refuse it ....