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Parenting & Pregnancy > Fertility & Infertility Issues Twins & multiples: Tips for telling them apart: 2 of 3

When parents are told they are expecting twins or higher order of multiples, their first questions is, "Are they identical or fraternal?" Having twins has become much more frequent due to the increase of use of infertility treatments as well as many women waiting longer to have children, however this usually results in fraternal twins. Identical twins comes from one egg splitting into two, resulting in identical babies. Some fraternal twins that are boy-boy and girl-girl also can look identical in the beginning, so parents need to find ways to tell the two apart. As the twins progress in t...
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