My sister and I were both born in 2008 but we aren’t twins – peoples jaws drops when they find out how our age gap works
A TEEN has left people scratching their heads by saying her and her sister were both born in 2008 but aren’t twins.
TikTok user @amber_andjade said how she often tells people that there is a small age gap between her and her sibling.
However, when people guess that it’s around two years, she tells them it is even smaller than that.
In a clip on TikTok, she posted: “Jan 2008 and Dec 2008.”
One person replied to the video asking: “How is that even possible…”
However, people were quick to explain: “Her mother got pregnant 3 or 2 months after she was born.”
The social media user said that they are in the same class at school due to their close age.
Others pointed out that she’s an “Irish twin”, which is a term often given to babies born less than 12 months apart.
The term Irish twins was initially used as a derogatory term aimed at Irish-Catholics who emigrated to America.
As Catholics do not believe in contraception, Irish families were often large, with children born close together in age.
One person shared: “damn mom didn’t get a chance to relax.”
Another added: “Your father was so impatient.”
A third commented: “mom really said ‘wow let’s do that again’.”
We previously shared about one mum who got pregnant three weeks after giving birth.
Jemma McCullough shared details of her unconventional family situation via a video posted to her TikTok channel.
Jemma gave birth to a daughter just 10 months after her son was born.
In the UK, the average age gap between siblings is around two years and two months.
Only a small percentage of pregnancies occur within 12 months of a previous birth.
A US-based study found that about 0.2 per cent of women gave birth twice within the same calendar year.
What are the different types of twins?
TWINS are when two children are produced in the same pregnancy.
They can be identical or different, and two boys, two girls, or a girl and a boy.
Twins are quite rare, but are usually born completely healthy
What are the different types of twins?
Monozygotic – identical twins (‘one cell’ twins)
Dizygotic – also known as ‘fraternal’, non identical twins. Babies are no more alike than siblings born at separate times, and they can be the same or different sexes
Conjoined twins – identical twins that are joined together. They are extremely rare, and it’s estimated they range from one in 49,000 to 189,000 births, although around half are stillborn, and one third die within 24 hours.
Can identical twins be two different sexes?
Identical twins are always of the same sex because they form from the same fertilised egg that contains either female or male chromosomes.
The single egg is divided into two separate embryos, and they occur in about three in every 1000 deliveries worldwide.
Therefore, boy/girl twins are always fraternal (or dizygotic), as their chromosomes are either XY (male) or XX (female).
What are Di Di twins?
Di Di stands for Dichronic Diamniotic, and they are the common type of twins.
They have their own amniotic sacs and placenta, so are just sharing the womb of the mother, and are therefore not identical.
There are few complications with Di Di twins, so have a good chance of being born completely healthy without intervention from your doctor.
Di di twins are more likely to be non-identical than identical.