People can be so invasive that I decided to have fun wiht it.
When people ask me "omg twins? how?" I usually reply "we had sex twice in one night."
And just walk away giggling as whoever asks stands there dumbfounded.
I don't have twins but I am a twin. The strangest question I was asked was "When you look in the mirror do you get confused?" I think I just stared at him incredulously.
I was walking down the street with the twins in a twin stroller. A lady said to me "my you must have had these children close together." I said, yes I did two minutes. Then as I waited for her reaction, and we looked at my son in blue sailor suite and my daughter with bows in her hair, I hear"Are they identical?" no I responded one of each.Twins bring on many strange questions.
I showed up with the girls (3 & 1yr) in the double stroller, walking alone into L&D and someone asked if they could get me a wheel chair & if I was in labor. If I was in labor would I bring my 2, alone, buckle them, park? I got to the L&D desk and said I called 20 minutes ago for a steroid shot & they gave this blank stare. I went to a room & waited for a nurse. About 30 minutes past. When the nurse came in she wanted to do the 20 minute NST before the shot. I got hooked up to all the monitors. Two HOURS later she returns & questions my 2 minute apart contractions, I explained they were normal along with my other TTTS issues. She finally got all my information and realized the intensity of this pregnancy, bed rest, contractions, amnioreductions, procedures, etc. Then I ask her if she's heard of TTTS. She replies "Yes, have they had their transfusion yet?" {Duh, they've been transfusing since conception, that's what puts their lives in danger!} but I refrained & politely educated her.
"Yes, Have they had their transfusion yet?" asked by the Labor and Delivery nurse that was administering the first of my second set of steroid shots for my twins lung development... in response to my question "Do you know what Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome is?". {If you don't know what TTTS is google it, it's bad.} I would hope that if L&D is you chosen profession that you would have a basic understanding of it so you could notice symptoms. I know that may be a stretch for some, so if you don't know and are asked by a mother who does have it, don't try to fake it. Goodness lady! I promptly educated her and her shadowing nurse that day.
HI! I GUESS THE FUNNIEST QUESTION IS...HMM? HOW TO PUT THIS? OKAY, I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME, "HOW DID YOU DO IT? WOW, TWINS !!! TWO BABIES , TWO FEEDINGS, AND THEN I GUESS IT HITS THEM AND THEY ALWAYS STOP AND LOOK AWAY.....AND I TELL THEM , "THEY TOOK TURNS" IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! IT'S PRETTY FUNNY...BUT HEY, I GUESS THAT'S WHY THERE'S TWO OF THEM??! :)) P.S. I I LOVE BEING A MOM OF TWINS!
I have twins, a four year old boy and girl. I often get asked "Are they identical?" Then people quickly follow up their own question with "Oh, I guess that wouldn't be possible, huh." Duh. My daughter has the dominant personality, so I usually also get asked if she came out first." No!!
When I was pregnant I was so large that at 28 weeks people would pause and say "There's more than one right?" My guys were big. They were born at 35 weeks at 6lbs 10 oz and 5 lbs 13 oz. Still that was a crazy thing to say to someone.
When they were infants people would lean in for a look in the stroller and say "Twins?" I started to say no and see what happened. One lady said "Oh. They look some much a like." Really???
I know people are just being kind and not realizing how silly it is to ask someone if two children that are the exact size in the same stroller are twins but they could just say how cute or how old like everyone does with singletons. It's interesting how that changes.
I have fraternal twin boys who are, now, seven years of age. We have had our share of outrageously off the wall questions, but the one that really stands out in my mind what not really in question form.
My husband was deployed when the twins were only 6 weeks old. I was on my own for quite some time and had the twins in tow at all times.
On this particular morning, I had to do some grocery shopping. I snap one baby's seat in one cart, and one into another and train around the store, pulling and pushing my babies along. They were so tiny!
We were stopped in our tracks by a lady wearing a large purple moo-moo and hair set in pink rollers. I glanced up from my list to see her staring at the twins.
"MMM . . . Child . . . However did you manage that?!?"
To brace for yet another twinversation, I'm thinking to myself, "Um . . . It's called sex at 30, Honey!"
She put her hands on her hip, waved her finger around and said, "Girl! You must of had pregnancies BACK-to-BACK!
The most annoying question is "Are they natural?" Um, no I had them shipped in from Mars, completely unnaturally! Or two for the price of one (I always have been a bargain shopper!), double trouble (nope double blessings), Do they act the same?, the standard are they twins (they are mirror image ID and if not for a birthmark on one, you'd think you were experiencing deja' vu) My favorite though...after I say identical boys...do you have a boy and a girl?
