Maternal twins

So today I was at Curves and this older lady says...Oh you have twins..yes I do....she says, I am a twin, Oh really I say, Fraternal or Identical? Well our placentas were fused so we are MATERNAL......Ohhhh, well nice meeting you I say and just bust up inside laughing! :rotflmbo: Maybe this is an "old school term" I dunno know but it just took me off guard coming from a twin!!!! :laughing: Just thought I'd share!

 

:laughing: thats so funny maybe she thought the other choice was paternal!

 

Makes me wonder if she was really a twin.

 

haha.. funny.. people can be so clueless.. ive never heard of that before from anyone.. i agree with Sullivanre.. she probably isnt even a twin.. if she doesnt even know the terms for types of twins. lol that made me laugh
thanks for sharing..

 

Lol! I know someone who was asked if her twins were infraternal!

 

I got told the other day that a shop assistant was a twin and she was 85% identical with her sister! I wish I asked which parts were different!

 

I HAVE heard this term before. I was asked by my chiropractor if my girls were Maternals or Paternal twins. It's an old classification/terminology.
He explained it to me but here is a link that I found where someone explains it:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006013109489

I haven't heard it since until tonight!
hehehe

 

:laughing: At my last job when I was pregnant one of the engineers told me that his daughter had twins but they were "paternal" :laughing:

 

:rotflmbo: THAT IS HILARIOUS!

 

That is too funny!

 

Oddly enough, it actually is an older term for Id. twins. I googled it. Not much came up, but there is some out there. Must people think it's a mistake, no such thing, but it is. She said it herself, the placentas were fused, so maternal or id twins. You might run into the term about as often as her hear a bathroom called a water closet. ardon:

 

:rofl: I haven't heard of that one before! :laughing:

 

well now Im confused! My girls are fraternal but their placentas were fused (I saw it myself, looked like one big placenta with a line down the middle!) so are they maternal twins????

 

My MIL keeps on telling people her grandkids are paternal twins. She's beyond correcting.

 

Fused placentas = di/di which was once presumed to be fraternal and I'm sure that's what she meant.