9 Things You've Probably Wondered About Being A Twin (2024)

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9 Things You've Probably Wondered About Being A Twin? ›

Being a twin means having a built-in best friend and someone to always relay on. Junior Jakeece Patterson is a twin to his brother Jerrius Patterson. Jakeece said, “Being a twin is fun; you always have a friend and you're never actually lonely. You always have someone to hang out with and it's hard to get bored.”

Being a twin means having a built-in best friend and someone to always relay on. Junior Jakeece Patterson is a twin to his brother Jerrius Patterson. Jakeece said, “Being a twin is fun; you always have a friend and you're never actually lonely. You always have someone to hang out with and it's hard to get bored.”

Competition, jealousy, sharing, and expectations make twinship a hard relationship to navigate. Twins are sometimes confused as to who they are in relationship to each other. It's important not to make twins feel guilty or ashamed if they don't get along.

Love and friendship are not finite resources.

My sister and I love and are loved by many of the same people. Their love for my sister doesn't take away from their love for me. You shouldn't have to compete to gain someone's love. My twin and I have both our own circles of friends and shared friends.

Being a twin has its benefits—tricking people, having a lifelong companion, sharing clothes—but it also has downsides. Many twins struggle to cultivate their own identities, while being so similar to one another. And that struggle lasts a lifetime, according to a recent study.

Being a twin is having the ability to understand your twin like no other and looking at your twin and knowing exactly how they are feeling, not because of the stereotypical twin telepathy, but because you have spent so much time together. Being a twin is always having someone to talk to.

Your first year of raising twins will be tough. Expect less sleep, as your world will revolve around feeding your twins, burping them, changing them and putting them to sleep, all while constantly washing two sets of everything from clothes to feeding bottles. Financial costs are also higher with twins.

Some say that twins are always hard (yet amazing), while others say they truly didn't find them to be difficult. A few said that the first two months with twins are easy (being in the rose-colored glasses phase), then reality hits from months 3-6 (when the sleep deprivation catches up), then it can get easier again.

Physically recovering from a multiple birth, whether it was vagin*l or via C-section, is much like recovering from a singleton birth — only more so. Indeed, the postpartum period can be worse with twins or triplets, as everything you experience will feel just a little bit more painful and last a while longer.

Are twins harder to birth? ›

The process of labour is more or less the same as for 1 baby, but your maternity team will usually advise you to have your babies electronically monitored because of the higher risk of complications. This means attaching belts with sensors (1 for each twin) to your bump.

The rates of multiple gestations, including mainly twin gestations, have increased in recent years. Twins face higher risk of health complications that continue throughout childhood, due to their risks of being born earlier.

Twin psychology has been studied to a very limited extent. Only few remarkable peculiarities of the twins' development are known for sure, such as delayed intellectual development, language retardation with frequent cryptophasia, difficulties and fragility of self consciousness, reduced sociability.

To form identical or monozygotic twins, one fertilised egg (ovum) splits and develops into two babies with exactly the same genetic information. To form fraternal or dizygotic twins, two eggs (ova) are fertilised by two sperm and produce two genetically unique children.

Regarding their grief, some twins report that ---

Identicals sometimes felt more powerful and persistent grief than do fraternal twins. They often viewed their twin as their best friend and confidante, and so after the loss, may have less of a social circle of support and deep connectedness than others.

Twins share the same genes but their environments become more different as they age. This unique aspect of twins makes them an excellent model for understanding how genes and the environment contribute to certain traits, especially complex behaviors and diseases.

Twins provide a trove of biological information that scientists cannot get anywhere else. They're valuable in helping scientists understand diseases and other conditions, including eating disorders, obesity, sexual orientation, and various psychological traits.