How many pair of twins have you met?

Chestnut. I expect you are right. Shame isnt it.
Does it have to say somewhere on the video if it is AI generated? I must look closely next time.

A lot, twins run in the family 👶👶

Remember Octomum? She turned out to be a good mum despite all the criticism and hate, so you have to admire her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrqc6H2Rnnc
There are several programmes about her I believe.

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There are often sweet videos on youtube of twins talking to each other in their cot when quite tiny.
They must be such fun to have apart from hard work.

I have spotted baby and animal videos on You Tube which are clearly produced by AI. There is something not quite right about them, just too perfect. So now I've become a total cynic and don't believe any of them. Maybe some are real humans or animals but You Tube content is just so untrustworthy. 😕

Interesting Franbern I didn't know that though I think nowadays any first cousin marriage is frowned on.
My friend was a twin and the 5th girl.
Her mum's midwife said "wait, I think there's another one!" and that was her.

That’s really interesting Franbern.I had never thought about that.

Regarding the children of identical twins, they are actually more of half siblings than cousins.
Indeed, whereas it is permitted in UK law for cousins to marry, they may not if they are cousins from identical twin parents.

I think there are a lot more twins nowadays with better health care in early pregnancy. Also IVF. My DD had two eggs implanted and both took so she has twins, a boy and girl.
My DS had twins although in those days, no scans etc., they thought she was rather large but only having one. I remember my DBIL phoning and saying “It’s a girl…..and a boy”. We had to rush out and buy an extra carry cot etc.

Is anybody married to one of identical twins?
My mind strays to all sorts of places at the thought.

Identical males fairly frequently being my sons. May have met many twins over the years but never known if not identical.

Truly interesting posts ..

Lovely weekend wishes ..

I only remember one pair of identical twins when I was a child, and although fascinated by them, I found them a little freaky, like two halves of one person, but when I got to know them they weren’t nearly as identical as I had first thought and I had no trouble telling them apart.

When I was first married there was a lady in the butchers I used to use who had three sets of triplets! She was something of a local celebrity, goodness how she managed a job and nine children. She was always very jolly.

Our married unidentical twin daughters for starters, Noelle & Natalia.

My father and uncle were twins as well.

"Off the top of my thinking cap" !!!

As we are in the Madrid Capital 32 years, we have not come across many twins here recently.

I went to school with twins, I was friends with them both. They weren't identical, there was certainly a dominant one, I remember her pushing her sister in a ditch. They were part of a large Irish family, they had older siblings also twins a boy and a girl. Both my children had twin friends at school, one set very identical.

One branch of my family had lots of twins; but it missed me out!

In 1966 there were 8 sets of twins in our little village school - that meant that one in seven pupils were a twin!

It made the papers and there is a Getty image of them.

Some of them are still around locally.

I watched several programmes about twins, separated at birth, and it was amazing to see how they had lived almost parallel lives, from the small, mundane things, to much bigger events, careers...
Almost magical.

Mum was a twin. They had a lovely relationship with each other but very different personalities. When Mum died her twin knew without being told and wouldn’t speak for several days.

I have met lots. My grandmother had twins as did my daughter and my cousin. In my class at junior school there were identical twin girls and a pair of non identical. In my secondary school class there were twin girls. My daughter’s neighbour has twins whom I have met and at her secondary school my granddaughter had friends who were twins. My niece married a twin so I met them but the greatest number of twins was when I used to accompany my daughter and her twins to a local twins’ club where there were triplets as well. It was chaotic but great fun.

I find twins fascinating and in my experience there seem to be many more same sex twins than boy/ girl ones like my grandchildren. I suppose that is inevitable as many are identical.It must be lovely to be a twin or have twins. I am envious!

No twins in my family but I was at university with two lots of identical twin brothers, all doing the same degree course. Both lots dressed almost identically. They didn't get the same class of degree so I guess they had some differences.

2 sets of ladies both of whom contracted Ca Bronchus - only light smokers in their youth. I set has subsequently dies one year after another in the early 70s.

2 further non identical sets are fine as far as I recall (one of the sets are my first cousins)

I used to go to a twins club. So loads. Make of that what you will.

There are often sweet videos on youtube of twins talking to each other in their cot when quite tiny.
They must be such fun to have apart from hard work.

I have had the honour of delivering 2 sets of twins!