faternal twins

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I had faternal twins, same father but their weights were so different, both girls and

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5#1oz. and 2#13oz. explain this

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Two different ovum.

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To quote someone who’s name I forget, welcome to the Straight Dope, caren67401 (love yer name), glad to have you with us. It’s a good idea to give a link to the column in question, so we are all on the same page, so to speak. No biggie, I’ll do it for you this time, but next time you’ll know:

So I guess the 5#1oz one was the "fat"ernal one, eh?

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I would imagine, one of them got first dibs on the food supply, so the second was short-changed a bit. Though post-birth feeding would probably offset that.

Just my non-medical-expert guess.