Fun

Funny Stories with Twins and Triplets

You’ve sent us in some fabulous tales over the years – here are some of our favourites.   Wind Beneath My Wings!  By Caroline My two yr old boys are obsessed with sanitary towels & tampons. No matter where I hide them, they find them!! They love unwrapping the towels & sticking them just about […]

Heavy Twins Twins weigh in as record-breakers

Friday, October 26, 2007 Britain’s heaviest mixed-sex twins have weighed in at a combined 18lb 12oz. Beth Ryder, 35, of Mount Pleasant, Rawtenstall, Lancashire is celebrating the arrival of 10lb 9oz Theo and his 8lb 3oz sister Millie.  They were born last Thursday at Burnley General Hospital and beat the previous record held by Thomas […]

Heavy twins/triplets – the runners up

Prior to Beth Ryder, giving birth to the heaviest set of mixed sex twins in 2007, the title was held by proud Twinsclubbers Sue Hughes and partner  Steve Houghton-Burnett. On Sunday 3rd November 2002, Sue and Steve had become parents of the UK’s heaviest set of newborn twins since records began. After a 13 hour labour and […]

Do Twins Really Have a Sixth Sense

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Alexandra Blair, The Times 25th March 2009 Is there really such a thing as twintuition ? Are twins truly telepathically linked by a shared intuition?   Dr Lynne Cherkas, a genetic analyst at the department for twin research at King’s College London, and a non-identical twin herself, has spent years studying twins. She has come across […]