Twin Valentines!!

[plumtreeblossom]

Congratulations to bcat1 and spacechicken (Jay's awesome sister and her awesome husband) on the Valentines Day birth of their first children; twins!

Welcome to the world Rider (boy, 4lbs 12oz) and Genesis (girl, 4lbs 5oz), who joined us just before noon today!

They're a few weeks early but that's okay, they're strong and doing great, we're told. Jay and I will post pictures when they become available.

What a wonderful valentine! Uncle Jay and Auntie Mare are sure happy! Congratulations too to silverlibre and ka9sqb, the proud grandparents.

Happy Valentines Babies!

Comments

[deceptiverose.livejournal.com]

Yay! Babies are awesome.

Twins *always* come early so being a few weeks early is normal. :)

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

What a lovely Valentine's Day gift -- twins!

Blessings and happy birth - day wishes to one and all

[kencf0618.livejournal.com]

Born on St. Valentine's Day. I've never thought of that...

Congratulations!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

I would love to have twins, but then again, I'm not the one who's going to be carrying them.

Coming early and a lower birth weight is normal for twins. Are these identical or fraternal?

If identical, the odds are only 1 in 285, and those odds are universal across all races and ethnicities. The odds of fraternal twinning differs by families, ethnicities, and races.

Re: Congratulations!

[beowabbit]

They’re fraternal. (Note different birth sexes — I’m sure there’s some theoretical way genetically identical twins could be born with different somatic sexes, but, um, it can’t be very common.)

Re: Congratulations!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

My bad, I read it has Ryder, and considered it a girl's name.

Anyhow, no, identical twins would have to be identical sexes. I can't think of any chromosomal aneuploidy that would lead to such an outcome.

Re: Congratulations!

[beowabbit]

Well, one of them could be a chimera. (Or they could both be chimeras, but with the reproductive system coming from different zygotes in the two.) Arguable that that would count as identical twins, but they might seem that way based on ordinary genetic testing. Or one of them could have had an early replication error such that one was XY and one was X0. Or something like that. Or space aliens could have altered the genotype of one of them. (You have to watch out for that! Many people’s insurance does not cover alien genetic modification. Check your policy today!) But yeah, not easy.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you and Wabbit on your new avuncular and (anvauntular?) roles. Twins are lovely, of course, almost always arriving early and a bit lightweight each, because total weight combined equals Mom's maximum carrying capacity (9 lbs, 1 oz in this case).