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The phenomenon of giving birth to twin brothers, a rarity in the past, is now growing: between 1980 and 1996 the number of twins born in the USA has raised with 37 %. There are festivals only for twins. William Shakespeare has been himself father of twins and has written about them in ‘The 12th Night’ and ‘Comedy of Errors’.

Do you remember how attentively you used to study pairs of twins accidentally seen in the park? Almost instinctively, when we find out that two babies are twins, we try to realize if they are identical, we observe their clothes and then we look at the parents with admiration. And we think: ‘Poor people! How do they manage? It is difficult with one, but two?’

And then comes the day when, at the first ecography meeting, you find out you carry more than one living person. When the sky falls upon your head for one second, you don’t know whether to be happy or start running. You laugh and cry at the same time, trying to find methods to tell the other persons in your life that you are having two or three babies.

After getting used to the idea, worries begin about how you are going to handle it, if you have enough space or you have to move and break walls, how you are going to foster both of them, how to run from one to the other, having to buy everything in duplicates. These are normal questions, usual fears.

Twin pregnancies are special, deliveries are often premature and nothing is more important than always finding a piece of advice, a good word, an opinion, even at hours when pediatricians, mothers, best friends and neighbors are tranquilly sleeping. The most important thing to remember for the parents is not to panic: twins have nowhere to run, they are pretty resistant though seem fragile, and it is not as difficult as it initially seems. First 18 months are indeed harder, but it is zero compared to the happy years that follow.

As an encouragement, some parents say that it is easier with two than with just one, because they play together. Even if they fight sometimes, they never get bored since they are two of a kind, they don’t become as spoiled an only child. They play together, so it is no problem if they don’t find other company, each one is enough for the other. Both have very different personalities and still communicate in their own language. At school, integration is a lot simpler, because they always have somebody next to them.

There are two types of twins: identical and fraternal. The identical ones are formed when a single egg is fertilized by different sperms, and the egg divides into two identical halves (embryos) from the genetic point of view. They say that twin brothers own a very special bond with each other, like no other family connection there is. What they feel towards each other is unique and beyond everybody else’s comprehension.

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