The high cost of twins

[lesliepear]

NY magazine article on the impact of raising twins

My one real life friend with twins *IS* having a hard time - partially I think due to her husband's job. (He's an ob/gyn and should not go work on little sleep - much more risky than the average job done when tired.)

Thoughts?

Comments

[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

Having come from a family with multiple sets of twins, you just deal, same as with having one.

For some background, the lady I called Oma (in fact my mother's sister's mother-in-law but they are my 'real' family) had four sets of twins. The one set born in my generation was a still-birth. We have two sets in the next generation.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

how many kids did she have total.. 4 sets of twins is some major baby making :)

[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

Oma's babies:

My Uncle K. born 1928. The only single birth.

My Uncles O. and H. Born 1931.

My Aunt T. and Uncle G. Born 1935.

My Uncle S. and his brother (still-born). Born 1938.

A set of twins born just after my Oma sent her 5 youngest kids to Bremen with her sister. It is the family history that she and the local doctor induced a very late term abortion (she would have been between her 5th and 7th month). She sent the children on, had the abortion, then she and the doctor buried the babies and rode their bicycles from Poland to Bremen. The date put to this is summer of '44.

There was talk that there was another pregnancy between '38 and '44, I just don't know.

Yes, major babymaking. Had all the next generation survived it would have numbered 9, with no twins. The next generation now stands at 17.