Do/Did you have a prefernce as to Frat vs. ID?

Cinnamon Haze

Im just curious.. aside from the pregnancy aspect and di/di being safest and usually fraternal, if you had a choice, would you choose to have fraternal or ID twins?

Sascha3

I am definitely glad to have a di/di pregnancy.  I honestly don't have a strong preference.  I think ID would be adorable and exciting, but if I had to choose I would choose fraternal. 

aliwisewoman

I hope they are fraternal, but I don't really care. ID's seem more "twinny" to me. LOL When we think of twins, we usually think ID and that is originally what I was hoping. But I love to see all the differences between my children. My son has blue eyes like denim, my daughter has honey brown eyes. I'm curious what my twins will look like.

BuckeyeNut05

No preference, but I was sort of releived to have ID since the chances of that happening twice are lower. Hats off to everyone with more than one set of twins, I don't think I could handle it!

YouMe&Bax

For the pregnancy I'm glad I have a di/di (or what appears as one) pregnancy.  The complications I've had with this pregnancy are plenty - I can't imagine how the moms of ID twins do it!! Hats off to them!! Once they are out and about in the world? I have no preference - my twins will be my children whether they look exactly the same or polar opposites and I'll love them just as much either way! 

BabyCarryingVessel

My girls were di/di identicals. I actually did have a preference for frats in the beginning, but now we know they are ID and I think it's pretty cool. A mom from my birth month board is an identical twin and she said "it's hard to have to share everything, even a face." That made me realize that I'm going to have to work hard to treat them like different individuals!

Mama-Bear

I have frat boys.  I think ID's are "neater" unless you can have b/g twins.

macchiatto

I'm glad i didn't have to choose.

I think both types of twins are really cool in their own way.
In some ways though, for me, I'm glad they are fraternal and very easy to tell apart. I think for me, it would bug me if most people couldn't tell my kids apart or didn't even try. It's happened just recently with a coach--for the first time since they were babies--and it made me realize how glad I am that it's easy for most people. (They are exactly the same height right now but one has blond hair, one has brown hair, not to mention different faces and very different voices and personalities.)

MrsCali_Bride

I had no preference. We knew that chances were that they'd be fraternal since they were Di/Di and the anatomy scan proved that for us. Would it be cool to have identicals? Of course but now there is no way that I could imagine life without either one of them.

Reilly626

I think most people would just be happy with happy and healthy babies no matter what they are.

katiebenes

for me, I'll just be glad to find out if they split early and I have id di/di twins...
but since I may have more kids, I would like to have the chance of more multiples less... I love my house and it wouldn't fit four kids very easy

pea-kay

Not gonna lie, the AW in me loves having ID triplets. But for their sakes, I kind of wish they were fraternal. I hate that people can't and won't tell them apart. I am however glad they're all the same sex.

kiwi443

I hoped for fraternal. I had crazy thoughts about my girls turning into the odd, co-dependent twins that are most often showcased by the media. I believe research shows that ID girls tend to be the closest out of all twin types. I hope my girls are good friends, but I want them to know how to form other healthy relationships too.

I do think IDs are easier in some ways (keeping them on the same schedule, etc) but there is a lot to think about in terms of nurturing them individually, especially when most of the rest of the world views them as a set.

Nikkdam

I believe you are blessed with what you are blessed with

BananaPancake

I was relieved when they were di/di because the chances of IDs was so low. I wanted two completely separate people. But when they turned out to be ID anyway, I have to admit it's absolutely amazing. That it can even happen just wows me, and seeing two completely different people who look absolutely the same just blows my mind, you know? It's like the most amazing social experiment ever, seeing how much I can love the two different people who come out of the same DNA. I hope we see a lot of twin studies in our lifetime - learning about this special twosome is just so neat. 

twobytwomom

I think both are very neat! For me personally, my boys are fraternal and my girls are also frats. I'm glad they are all fraternal.