Hi Folks, The twins I was referring to were in Yorkshire in the mid-1700s. There were 12 children altogether and only one other died.I was fortunate enough to have twins myself and my genealogy studies have made me so grateful that we live in healthier times. I only wish scans had been available then(1969) so that I could have been prepared for 2 ! I would have been able to take things a lot easier, which is something else they weren't able to do if they were working class. It's almost certain that the mothers would have worked as hard as they normally did, up to the time they gave birth. It's always very sad to find records of a mother having died in childbirth and the baby dying shortly afterwards. Unless the family could pay for a wet-nurse, a baby was likely to starve to death after losing it's mother. On that cheerful note I'll finish !! Jill