The Uniqueness of Fraternal Twins: The Bonds that Be!

» bbleigh - The Bonds that Be!

I can attest to the bonds between fraternal twins. I have a set of boy/girl twins that are now 15 yrs old and for the most part inseperable, although it is getting better the older they get. She now has her friends and he has his but their bond and friendship remains tight.

When they were born we bought two of everything. I mean two beds, two play pens, two cribs, etc. They refused to sleep in seperate cribs from day one. We figured that putting them in the same crib might help so we put one on one end and one on the other. By morning, their little heads would be touching and they would be sound asleep. I had never seen week old infants wriggle and creep like that before.

Forget seperate play pens. That was a no go from day one. The problem was that one liked to stay up all night and that made things difficult. We tried moving the cribs to seperate rooms and it still didn't work.

At three years of age we tried to get them to sleep in seperate rooms. By then our second daughter was born so we had a girl's room and a boy's room. Nope. The twins were having none of that, so the baby got her own room.

We now have four children and the baby is 7yrs old. All of my kids look very much alike and in fact people most often confuse the two girls as being the twins by looks. Fraternal twins may not share anymore genetic material than siblings, but the same does not hold true for their emotinal bonds. The twins were very different from my other two children in almost every way.

-- posted by bbleigh