What Does It Mean to Have a Twin?

[Mechatrommer]

as the topic said. went to hospital with the wifey. 4 months pregnancy scan check. doctor said, its a twin. this is unexpected nor unwelcomed, i'm confused. i dont think i'm going to tell friends and collegues here, only my mom

[FreeThinker]

It means you are going to be VERY busy! Twins are a handful especial if they are 'out of sync' ie one wakes as the other sleeps, but don't worry the first 5 years are the worst . Congrats to you and your wife, enjoy your family when they arrive as I said twins are a handful but bring twice the pleasure. Main thing is organisation and keeping calm. GoodLuck

[saturation]

Yep, you'll be busy.  Congratulations mecha.  PS ... be prepared to have less time for electronics!

[Mechatrommer]

thanx guys. but i'm not sure what its gonna like, good or bad. i've been busy all this time with all sort of things thats normal. i've been raising 3 kids, less sleep? well thats normal too. the oldest son already have sense of what his father do in the lab. the 2nd 6yrs and 3rd 3yrs old still give me headache. now, there will be 2 coming. i imagine 3 years from now, when the 2nd son already have the sense, it will be three lingering around in the lab with the 3rd (sister 6yrs old will be) become the leader.

Twins are a handful especial if they are 'out of sync' ie one wakes as the other sleeps...

this is the new experience i will look forward to... good or bad

ps: only the hardest part in my life, is to leave my hobby behind.

[sacherjj]

One of my friends got this news a few years ago.  Being the smart ass that he is, he responded with: "Cool, we can do some fun stuff now that we got a spare."  (Twin boys.)   

Wife was not amused. 

[Chet T16]

^haha 'a spare' nice 

Congrats on the news! I'm still struggling with one baby (she's 16 months now) with being a full time student aswell, i can't imagine twins!

[TheEENerd]

Means u r the luckiest the man in the world. I hope my wife have twins.

[elCap]

Congratulations! It will be great fun!
If you don't mind, as a twin I would like to give you a small piece of advise; do treat them as two separate kids with different personality and skills. It's easy to treat them as one (especially if they are identical twins), but don't.

[Mechatrommer]

Means u r the luckiest the man in the world. I hope my wife have twins.

last time i read something about clone or in vitro technology that we can make a twin (double, quadruple etc) if we want to. just ask the doctor. i think you can find it by googling.

...do treat them as two separate kids with different personality and skills. It's easy to treat them as one (especially if they are identical twins), but don't.

i partly agree. some aspect, have to treat them different, some aspect equal, so there wont fell biased. it will be a big trouble identifying which one is which if they are identical twin and then identical personality, behaviour everything etc. but i heard that parents will be able to differentiate them better than anyone else. i never spoke to anyone who have twin, so.. we'll see.

thanx guys for the advice.

[Mechatrommer]

exactly 4 months from this thread posted...
exactly 10 years from the collapse of (twin) WTC...
these twins are born... i hope for good and better future...

not project sagan, but multitask algorithm i guess...
my daily life once again interrupted for this several weeks, sigh 
sorry i got nothing else to do... just got reminded when i saw EEVblog #200 – Retrospective main page.

ps: i cannot upload to this forum, it said my attachments fail security check, those are just jpg's
duh what a mess... no thumbnails?
anyway...

[gamozo]

Congrats!

Teach them in the ways of EE

[Mechatrommer]

thanx. they will see the way of "Mecha"+"tron"+"mer" = Genetic Algorithm, LOL!

[Kiriakos-GR]

Oh my they look like a RIGOL scope with dual screen .... 

The one of those I will turn it in to electrician , like it or not !!   

[Mechatrommer]

the other one is the copy (clone) of the other. so the original is rigol, and the other one maybe atten

The one of those I will turn it in to electrician , like it or not !!   

you may try. but looking at your distance, the only way you can do that is by "shared dream"

[AntiProtonBoy]

They are going to play games with you when they get older. Like deliberately swapping their identity, just to confuse you.

[Lawsen]

Congratulations with your new family and twins.  Happiness to come with much chores ahead.  They might help you in the future, too. 

[Kiriakos-GR]

They might help you in the future, too.

True, its like watching them all ready...  like holding markers in their hands and plot sinusoid waves on the walls ... LOL 
Sagan will do the square waves ...  Poor Dave .. LOL   

[Mechatrommer]

They might help you in the future, too.

True, its like watching them all ready...  like holding markers in their hands and plot sinusoid waves on the walls ... LOL 
Sagan will do the square waves ...  Poor Dave .. LOL   

having 3 kids earlier, they've shown their talent in making arbitrary waves on the wall, and floor. it seems sine and square (noiseless) need more hardwork for them.
Thanx Lawsen. Its every farther's dream for their son(s). But proving myself not to be so much helpfull to my farther (which more prone to farming, and me with my techy nerdy stuffs), so i wont expect miracle. I'll try my best i can do.

[ciccio]

Sincere congratulations, from me and my wife.
She saw the photos and said: they look so cute, not the usual newborns...
She is African, and when I explained her that you were worried for the tasks of raising and educating 5 child, she reminded me that her mother raised 9 sons and daughters, and with success.

[Mechatrommer]

thanx ciccio...

She saw the photos and said: they look so cute

female always said that, whether its really cute or not . i dont understand, maybe thats their nature.

and when I explained her that you were worried for the tasks of raising and educating 5 child, she reminded me that her mother raised 9 sons and daughters, and with success.

we are 7 brothers and a sister. success? i'm not sure, the meaning is relative, but we all survive got work etc, except the youngest which is still 9 years old and 2nd youngest who just got into his "higher education". having 9 childrens or even more is not uncommon here as well for older folks. but new generation they showed lesser production volume today, depends on busy'ness. more busy, less children. i try not to have too few kids as others who only have 1-2 children, i hope when i'm gone, they will help each other. the more siblings, the stronger they are i hope. minimum is 3 kids for me. but now 5, i think i'm in comfortable state right now. when i had 3 kids i said, ok i'm still young, and we expected 4, and now its 5... i really feel like an old dude. we should stop production for the next 6-7 years. and resume when i'm like... 41 years old? i dont know. we'll see.

[ElektroQuark]

Congratulations, Mecha!

Enjoy, the five of them

I have one and have time to nothing. The Force be with you

Congrats again, beautiful little boys.

[Alex]

...and the loop gets even tighter around my neck...

Congratulations mecha, just saw this. All the best. They look like linguists to me. 

[Lanman]

I too have twins.  Mine are 16 years old now.  Kiss any sleep good bye. Although I think most of us who work in this industry are used to running on little to no sleep.  Mine loved to tag team. They operated on an alternating 2 hour schedule.  It's certainly a lot of work. Far more than you can imagine until you've walked that path but always worth the extra effort.  Congratulations!  You'll really enjoy it. 

Dave