Brynn Clarke remembers her husband blurting “you’re joking, right?” when, during her 12-week scan, the ultrasound tech told them they were having twins.

“And she said, ‘Oh, we don’t joke about that,'” said Clarke, whose fraternal boys are now seven.

The couple’s minds immediately went to the items they would need in duplicate. Two car seats. Two cribs. Twice as many diapers and wipes.

“We definitely were also thinking further down the line pretty early,” said Clarke, president of the Toronto Parents of Multiple Births Association.

How would they ever find two affordable daycare spots in downtown Toronto? How long before they outgrew their two-bedroom condo?

Lindsey Zunti, with the Edmonton Twin and Triplet Club, already had an 18-month-old daughter when she learned she was about to be

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