Double Trouble: What It's Like to be a Twin
The 2012 Twins Days Festival is this weekend, so it's the perfect time to reflect on being a twin.
It seems like there's a national day for everything these days—ice cream sandwiches, hot dogs, workaholics and twins! I recently came across a website for the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, OH. My sister, Heather, and I are fraternal twins. Though we're not identical, I like to think we have an even closer bond than typical fraternal twins. You see, in the womb, identical twins share one sack and one placenta, while fraternal twins each have their own sack and placenta. My sister and I each had our own sacks, but shared a placenta. Cool, right? We've always looked different—she's taller than I am, my skin is a lot darker than hers, she has worn glasses since elementary school, and she has straight/wavy hair she likes to wear in a …
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Mary
8:55 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Identical twins share a placenta. They can also have 2 placentas. If you shared a placenta, you are identical. If it appears to be 1 placenta but is actually 2 fused together, then you can be fraternal or identical. more ›