Taylor Greenhagen posted a video. It’s everywhere now.
Her son Owen and daughter Dylan play on a couch. He is three. She is seven months. The caption says they are fraternal twins.
This seems wrong. Mathematically.
Biologically? Also wrong. They are not twins. Not really. But in the IVF world, they are.
Greenhagen’s reel shows siblings reunited. Owen is 3, Dylan is 7 months old. They were conceived at the same moment, in 2022, but born three years apart. One arrived in 2023, the other in 2024. Wait. 2023 to 2025?
Greenhagen calls them her twins.
She struggles with PCOS. Anovulatory. No ovulation. Natural pregnancy? Impossible. So she and her husband chose IVF. A choice that breaks you down, she says. Physically. Emotionally. Mentally. It demands everything.
One of the unique things about IV is that after egg retrieval, we wait.
The eggs are fertilized in a lab. Monitored. Watched like hawks.
Five or six days.
Greenhagen had eight embryos. All grown together. Side by side in a dish.
“We were fortunate,” she tells Newsweek. “They all grew together.”
In IVF circles, parents use this term affectionately. “Fraternal twins” for kids from the same embryo cohort. It acknowledges a shared origin. A shared start. But different finishes.
They aren’t biological twins. But they began their lives in the same jar.
Then the split happened.
Owen came home. Years passed.
Then Dylan arrived.
Greenhagen notices a bond. Strange, isn’t it?
Since bringing Dylan home, Owen acts different. Connected. Wordless. Like they remember each other from before. Before meeting.
Maybe it is just mom-guilt? Maybe it is the hope every parent craves? Or maybe it is true.
It’s almost like they already knew each each other.
The comments section proves she is not alone.
IVF families flock to her post. Validation. Connection.
One mother wrote in: Same here.
Her kids? Conceived in the same cycle. One born October 2021 (wait, 2023). The other October 202? No.
Another mom adds her story. Daughter 20 months younger. But conceived two months earlier.
Confusing?
They did a fresh cycle for the son first. Saved the rest for later.
Frozen embryos don’t care about calendars. They just wait.
So yes. Your kids can be twins.
Even if the calendar says no.
