Fraternal twins

Nine months ago, two lines showed up in your pregnancy test. Then, popped two babies – twins! Double the fun – or is it double trouble? But then, why aren’t you seeing double?? Aren’t twins supposed to look alike? Or be of the same gender? Find out all the answers to your questions about fraternal twins in this article!

microbiologyupdate on Instagram: "TYPES OF TWINS !!! DO YOU KNOW ? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 There are two types of twins – identical (monozygotic) and fraternal (dizygotic). To form identical twins, one fertilised egg (ovum) splits and develops two babies with exactly the same genetic information. Such twins, known scientifically as 'MoMo', an abbreviation for monoamniotic-monochorionic, are some of the rarest types of twins, making up less than one percent of all births in the United States, noted the…

I'm sharing my birth story so I can remember the details, process the trauma and potentially prepare another twin mom for what might happen.

You know when you're at an ice-breaker mixer type thing, and everybody goes around the room and says an interesting fact about themselves, and you rack your brain for a semi-interesting fact about yourself before your turn comes (does the time you…

Biracial twins. With biracial parents, there is a 1 in 500 chance that fraternal twins will be born with different racial characteristics.

When many people hear the word “twins” they automatically think of identical twins. But fraternal twins are actually much more common, making up approximately 75% of the twin population.

I love that these two have each other. They always make sure that the other one has their blankie...and sometimes steal each other’s binkies. All is fair, they say #twins #mybabies #Regram via @asliceofstyle

These two have the sweetest relationship! Click for a letter to my beautiful 19 month old twins! It's all about the ups and downs of life as well as the cute things they are doing these days! Life with twins | Motherhood | The baby years | IVF success | 19 months | | Funny things babies do | Boy and girl twins | Twin relationship

Does everyone tell you your fraternal twins look identical? They might be! We did a twin zygosity DNA test to learn whether or not our twins were fraternal or identical. Here are the results!