Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Identical Twins

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My wife just had an interesting thought though. How do they know they
are identical? I am not doubting you at all and perhaps they have a
means I am not aware of, but I know myself the ultrasounds we got ten
years ago did not have enough detail to know. They had a hard time
convincing me I was going to have a son pointing at that little dot on
the image.


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:06:09 -0800, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I don't have any experience with this other than to say congrats.
> 
> As far as the geekiness of this goes, I am told non-identical twins
> are hereditary, identical twins are the luck of the draw. So I guess
> you just got lucky my friend.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:00:05 -0600, Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > Oh boy, is this ever off-topic...
> >
> > So, it seems that my wife and I have hit the jackpot...and hit it big. :-)
> >
> > Identical twins appear to be the order of the day!  We found out this
> > afternoon around 4:30pm...
> >
> > In addition to being incredibly excited about this (and not at all
> > scared which surprises me considering I'm a first time dad), I'm
> > wondering if anyone else on the list has experience with this sort of
> > thing.  Sure, this list in particular is probably not the most
> > appropriate in the world for this discussion, but I know a lot of you
> > are 1) dads and 2) seem to have some interests in
> > biology/genetics/medicine...so maybe some of you have something to say
> > about the geeky side of identical twins :-)  Has to be better than
> > talking about the election for 9 months, right? :-P
> >
> > May this also serve as notice to various and sundry parties that I left
> > off the hastily-compiled list of people I tried to tell with the first
> > email I sent out tonight :-)
> >
> > -N
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