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Tagged As: Twins Pregnancy

Question:
I am trying to find a website that explains what happens during a twin pregnancy week by week, i.e the development of the babies, changes in the mother etc. There are lots of websites that have this information for singletons, some even have day by day guides, but I just can't find one for twins. Does anybody know of one please? or alternatively a book that has this information.

Answer:
never found one myself but most of the information on baby development goes for singletons and twins. We got a lot of updated through all the sonograms! even got a picture of our daughter's face with an eye opened! I found that the two books listed below were very informative. The week-by-week one is for singletons but the development is almost the same up until week 28 or 30 (?). Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy by Gila Leiter, Rachel Kranz (Contributor) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440508789/qid=10373891... Your Pregnancy Week by Week (Your Pregnancy Series) -- by Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555612601/qid=1037389339/sr=2... Well foetal development is the same for singleton or twin, and the only difference in maternal development I experienced was being bigger, but that is so individual a book or website couldn't really 'standardise' that. For the babies, it's the same, barring complications. There isn't any normal for twin development that is any different than for singletons. A baby is a baby is a baby. There are different averages, but if twins are smaller and earlier on average, it's because something is going wrong with some of the pregnancies. If things are going exactly right, the babies will develop just like singletons would have. Twin pregnancies differ so much for the mothers that it is *really* hard to generalize.