Identical Twins: They Aren’t That Identical After All

Posted on February 21st, 2008

Just when I thought I know everything there is to know about identical twins, comes this new revelation. It seems that identical twins, previously thought to have 100% genetic resemblance, are anything but identical.
A group of researchers from the US, the Netherlands, and Sweden studied the genetic make up of 19 pairs of identical twins. [...]

Gambling for One Turns Up Snake Eyes. Twice.

Posted on February 2nd, 2008

My wife and I did the whole in-vitro thing. In fact we did it four times. Three full rounds, with one round using our cryogenically frozen kidlets left over.
First round failed, second round failed, third round failed, and the fourth? Yeah, bupkis.
And then, we conceived without any intervention at all, except for [...]

Identical Twins: How can you tell them apart?

Posted on February 2nd, 2008

This is the second most common question I encounter as I go through life as a mom of identical twins. And in case of telling identical twins apart, mommy really knows best. Ask my husband. Ask Grandma.
I guess it helped that F was much smaller than his bro R at birth. By the time he [...]