![]() ![]() They play together as if they were the same age sometimes more maturely and calmly if Chloe is in charge, more immaturely and robustly if Max is leading the way. Max and Chloe insist on sharing a bedroom, for example, even though they each have their own, and in fact now struggle to sleep if, unusually, they are apart for a night. I believe to my core that the bond shared by my children comes from their unique start in life. Max’s nickname is Olaf, after the snowman in Frozen ![]() Some mothers of IVF twins even say one feels unwell and gets symptoms when the other is poorly. Over and over again, a similar story emerges. They have something in common that others don’t - an extra connection.’ There is something so unique about IVF siblings conceived at the same time. ‘I always tell people they’re “scientific twins” and I like thinking of them having that bond, a special story. They are both very social around other children but shy with adults. They’re on the same track developmentally: threeyear-old Lucy crawled at eight months and so did Emily. Gemma Jones, 34, from Monmouth, South Wales, who is the mother of fraternal twin girls, now aged three and one, from the same batch of 11 blastocysts, tells me: ‘They look alike, but it’s more than that - they’re so similar in every way. Despite the age gap, their ‘IVF twins’, they say, have a deep and special bond that goes beyond that of mere siblings. Baby Jax (left) was born ten months agoĪnd as these new-shaped families emerge, parents are discovering something rather strange. ![]() Jess Morley, 31, a former nanny who lives in Bedfordshire with partner Paul Perry, 33, had son Kobi (right) four years ago, and then returned for one of her three frozen blastocysts in 2020. The staff at Care Fertility Bath implanted our little girl into my womb, while our little boy went into their freezer. Five days later, we were told we had two viable blastocysts, which is the stage before the cells become an embryo. That day in early 2012, my eggs were collected while I was sedated and, by the miracle of modern science, fertilised with my husband’s sperm in the laboratory. But they are most definitely twins to me.Ĭhloe and Max were conceived at exactly the same time - in an IVF clinic on an inauspicious industrial estate just outside Bath. No, my children are not twins in the conventional sense - there is a three-year age gap between them. They turned to face me two pairs of green eyes looking slightly guilty, their blonde hair framing their faces, identical wide cheeky grins. Nine-year-old Chloe was clearly teacher, while six-year-old Max was - along with the teddies - one of her students. Inside, I found chaos: my son’s desk was pulled into the middle of the room while my daughter stood behind it with rows of soft toys lined up in front. Standing by the bedroom door, I paused, listening to the murmuring of my twins’ voices. ![]()
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