Crazy Stories About Twins That Will Have You Asking “What the F*ck?”

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If it seems like twins are everywhere these days, it’s because they actually are. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the twin birth rate rose 76 percent from 1980 through 2009, and one in every 30 babies born in 2009 (the most recent year data was collected) was a twin.
Why are there so many twins lately? There are a lot of factors at play, says Lawrence Prince, M.D., Ph.D., division chief of neonatology at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego and associate professor of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego. He cites in vitro fertilization (IVF) and genetics among the reasons. Research has also found that obese women, those who are taller, and women who wait until later in life to get pregnant actually have increased odds of having multiples, says reproductive geneticist and ob-gyn Susan Klugman, M.D., a representative of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
With any birth and new baby, unusual things can happen—but it seems like it happens more often with twins.