for parents of twins & multiples
My birth story… by Jennine I was 5 weeks into my first pregnancy I kept getting really bad pains. I was glad to be on holiday from work so I could go to the hospital and get the pains checked out. The doctor looked at me and then told me she was sending me for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Did you have a secret ingredient in your packing which made your multiple birth easier ? Would you like to share it with us ? We’ve been asked for a hospital checklist for a twins birth and have cobbled together the following from our personal experience. The contents of the list will obviously be applicable […]
By JAMIE PYATT, The Sun, published: 31 Dec 2008 When twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly got to hold their baby sisters, twins Miya and Leah, the chances were 2 in a million! When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple were astonished to see that Lauren took after her white mum, […]
The Daily Mail, 25th November 2008 By Lucy Laing Looking at twins Lewis and Ava, you would never guess the struggle their parents endured to bring them into the world – nor the unique treatment that finally ended in a successful birth. For the smiles in the family portrait belie the heartbreak of three failed […]
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 […]