Ready to double up on your twinsknowledge?Let's get started!
First, have you ever seenthose viral videos of toddlertwins appearing to talkto each otherin their own secret language?It's a cute theory, but they'reactually just having funbabbling, mimicking sounds theyheard Mom and Dad make,and building their buddingspeech skills.
Now, how come some twins lookexactly alike and others don't?Rewind back to their earliestdays in the womb.Identical twins come from onefertilized egg that splitsin two.Fraternal twins come from twoeggs fertilized by twodifferent sperm.
Next, maybe you've heard twinscan have different fathers.Turns out it'srare, but possible!It can happen when a woman hassex with two men a few daysapart while she's ovulating.
Finally, a woman may be morelikely to have twins if she'sin her late 30s or obese.The odds may also rise if shehad a fertility treatmentor if twins run in her family.
Seeing double yet?We hope you're twice assavvy about twins now.
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