It’s the big day they’ve been looking forward to. My twin boys turned 6 today! It is certainly a major milestone for the kids as well as for the parents. Here are the reasons why:
6 is the age when they start primary school. Until a year ago, kindergarten in Switzerland was not obligatory, so that [...]
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What happens when you are down to your last embryo and your chances of producing more are slim? This is a question facing many parents who are undergoing IVF. And this Greek fertility expert seems to have found a solution – artificially split up the embryo. In the process, Karl Illmensee, laboratory director at the [...]
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Nowadays, people always associate twinning with in vitro fertilization (IVF). They may be right but there is actually more to twinning than IVF. Especially when it comes to monozygotic twins, commonly known as identical twins. Monozygotic twins develop when an embryo splits into two, resulting into two embryos. The reason for the splitting has always [...]
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I have very little experience in putting one baby to sleep. I can’t tell you how to put three or more babies to sleep at the same time. But as a mom of twins, I sure do know how to put twin babies to sleep. At least my babies. Because every baby is different.
Here are [...]
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Ranjit Hayer is 60 years old and is one of the oldest women to give birth, definitely among the oldest in Canada, and certainly as a mom of twins, according the CBC Canada. After several decades of trying to conceive, her patience finally paid off in double dose and delivered twins earlier this week.
Ranjit has been [...]
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