Some fun little facts and figures!

• Twindigestion - Caused by bolting your food in a restaurant to finish before your children kick off again
• Twincoherent - Never being able to finish a sentence before being interrupted or losing track of thought halfway through a ... where was I?
• Twinfamy - Immediately recognisable as 'that lady with the massive buggy'
• Twinebriated - State of mummy c. 8pm
• Twindifferent - The acquired ability to ignore the shouts of your children, no matter how loud they get
• Twincommunicado - How any of your stylish, sane or childless friends suddenly go a bit quiet
• Rumpledtwinskin - A new kind of Grimm fairytale about the horrors of a midriff after twins
• Twinpossible - Getting rid of the aforementioned twinskin that persists around your stomach area
• Twindecision - Whether having another baby after twins is sheer insanity or not?
• Triplatonic - All future relations with the opposite sex

Did you know that up to 22 percent of twins are left-handed. In the non-twin population the number is just under 10 percent?

Twin pregnancy is considered full term at 36 weeks and 3 days. The average weight of twins at term is about 5.5 lbs.

Fraternal twins (girls) have twice the chance of giving birth to twins than singletons. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Twins do not have to be born on the same dates. The longest gap between birth is 85 days.

Ideoglossia is the term used for the secret language of twins.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings

Quarternary Marriage is the term used when one set of twins marries a second set of twins. In case of identical twins marrying identical twins, genetically speaking their children will be more than cousins, they will be genetic siblings.

There are 7 different types of twins: identical, fraternal, half-identical, mirror image twins, mixed chromosome twins, superfecundation, and superfetation.

As if the woman in Chile did not have enough children ( 5 sets of twins, and 55 children over all), a woman in Russia in the 1700's, gave birth to 16 sets of twins, in addition to 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quads!