The boys are Identical!
What this means is...one egg split after the little spermies hit it. :) Did you picture it?? Did you? You're welcome for the visual.
Mark and I were told when I was 13 weeks pregnant that the way the boys were in the womb could be the result of one egg splitting (identical) or two eggs dropping (fraternal) and that the only way to be sure is with a DNA test once the boys were born. Called di-di twins. Look it up I'm not explaining it again. The test can be purchased online and mailed to you and then mailed out for results. Easy enough but it was $150.00 and with di-di twins there is only a 1 in 9 chance of them actually being identical, so we figured we'd just wait. Well after Cooper's lip repair we got lots of, "are they identical" questions. We couldn't wait anymore (or I should say...I couldn't wait anymore.) So I ordered it.
And we swabbed...
I was so impatient I bet I called the company 4+ times to see if my results were in. Ernesto who must have been the only guy in their call center knew me by name and I'm sure he thought I was the most annoying person ever...
Finding out the results was really interesting, For those of you who don't know identical twins do not run in families, it is not a trait anyone passed down to me. It was a complete fluke. We also found out that they were not d-di like we were told, but mo-di. Again, look it up...I have a twinning process post somewhere. There is a 1 and 250 chance of having identical twins. So I (for the lack of better words) achieved that and I managed to achieve having one of them born with cleft lip/cleft palate which I believe is 1 out of 700
births.
So either you just learned something or I put you to sleep.
