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4 Essential Things You Should Know About Twin Children

Are you ready to have twins?

By Maysa HirstPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
4 Essential Things You Should Know About Twin Children
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We all know the immeasurable joy of a family when the first or second child is born, especially since the couple has done countless treatments to have a child or simply wanted to the whole family. But what happens when a couple is pleasantly surprised to learn that it will not be a child who will be born, but two twin children.

The surprise is as big as it is pleasant for some couples, and the astonishment acquires even greater proportions in the case of those who wanted a child with all their heart. The responsibilities and worries belong to both parents, both mother and father - let's think, for example, that in the next 9 months, the future father will even begin to have cravings, contractions, and so on.

Beyond any joke, a couple indeed lives every moment to the fullest, they pass on to each other their worries, respectively their responsibility, both waiting for the moment when the little one will be born. On the other hand, let's imagine how great the joy of a couple would be if it weren't for one little one, but two.

Not only will it be good news, but at the same time, it will make you think seriously - for example, many will wonder how it happened and what will happen throughout the pregnancy. It should be noted that pregnancy with twin children involves many more risks, but, according to doctors, as long as the pregnancy is kept under observation, everything will go well.

Finally, we come to what we are interested in, namely, the curiosities about twin children, the things we should all know. We just hope it doesn't scare any couple, no mom or dad.

Twin children look the same, but they are very different

Perhaps the most fascinating thing, when we think of twin children, is that they look the same. Most of the time, we expect him to behave as such, that is, the same, to have the same tastes, to dress the same, respectively to speak in the same way.

It is true that in the early years, parents choose to dress them the same, perhaps due to a preconception, or simpler than that, a justifiable desire for the little ones to look as beautiful and close to each other. But we know that each person is unique, whether they have a twin brother or not. Moreover, the twin children are even more different from each other, because there will always be, throughout life, a predisposition to get out of the ranks of the other brother, to be completely different.

It sounds strange, we know, but at the same time it is understandable, each person wants to outline the lines of his personality, wanting to be unique in his way and not to be confused, at least from this point of view, with another man, whether his brother or not.

Twin children find it much harder to get close to their parents

Studies show that in the case of twin children, they tend to develop a certain distance from their parents, at the same time, parents find it very difficult to get close to their little ones. It is, after all, a mutual response, both from the twins and the parents.

Of course, the reasons why both parties have problems in their relationship are physical, the parents, at least at the beginning, feeling overwhelmed by the big wave of responsibilities they have to overcome. Then, many parents find it difficult to learn the traits that make one of their twin children unique. Interestingly, for example, fathers complained that at one point they even felt that they had a favorite child of twins, which from their point of view was abnormal.

And yet, there is nothing abnormal in this favoritism, because, as psychologists say, parents often tend to make a favorite, especially when they have twins, and this does not mean, for example, starting with the next moon will not make another favorite.

Twin children need the same program

The feeling of belonging, at least in the first years of life, is very important for twin children. They will look for, although they will not show too much, some stability between them, feeling closely connected, especially since their parents made them understand this, during the first years, wearing the same, etc.

Thus, the twin children will need the same program, plus it will be much easier for both parties, respectively for the parents, as well as for the twins. The twins may not synchronize, but over time, they will adapt.

The twin children will share everything

We already know that the twins will share the sweets, the joys, but few of us know that the two will do the same tricks, they will share the germs, the disease, or the suffering.

Moreover, some twin children will go into a grave silence when they need to admit who is to blame, first of all, because in very few cases, there will be only one culprit, and then, because they are they feel closely connected. Again, an interesting aspect observed among twins is that, in the first years of life, the little ones will make about the same sounds, because they tend to imitate each other.

It is true that after childhood, everyone will try to shape their personality, which will happen, by the way, but the two will remain with some habits, most of the time, unconscious, which are the same, or even with similar verbal tics. And yet, one aspect, perhaps even more interesting, belongs to the adult twins, some even sharing much more than they would normally be allowed to.

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