Whenever I talk to new Moms about raising my identical twin boys, they often say things like, "Wow, I don't know how you do it!" Since these are my first babies though, I can honestly say that I just don't know any better. I mean, is it harder to have two relatively easy babies or one super-colicky baby? Because when I hear about babies who scream in agony for hours straight, I tend to think, "Wow, I don't know how she does it!"

One thing I can tell you though is that having twins isn't just about juggling two newborns. The joys and challenges of life with twin babies goes beyond double duty feedings and diaper changes. It's not simply that everything you might do with one baby, I just do twice. No, caring for twins is a lot more complicated than that -- emotionally and physically. It's pretty freaking incredible and pretty freaking exhausting, too. When it comes to raising twins, here are a few things you might not have thought about ....

So, about 12 weeks ago, I gave birth to two handsome little babies that we've nicknamed Herman and Berman. Yes, I'm in love with them and find myself constantly open-mouth gumming their chubby cheeks with such enthusiasm, I'm concerned I might one day try to eat their faces off ... really. Okay, no, not really.

Sure, it's one big lovefest now, but I've gotta be honest: about six weeks ago, my husband and I were losing our freakin' minds. Up until then, they had been such sweet, easy little bundles, and we were sure it would just get easier from there. But before the "it gets better" part, they decided to take a detour and steer us toward a crazy-making place where no one ever sleeps and the cries just keep on coming ...

Why are twins so freaking adorable? Their cuteness is taking over the world! We've already shown you the talking twins (I'll wait a minute while you go look -- it's worth it), and I'm also addicted to Rebecca Woolf's Girls Gone Child photo set of her beautiful twins. It's all to say: Twins are the most adorable thing in the entire universe.

But over at Yahoo! This Week in M.O.M. took it to a new level with their fantastic video round-up of all of the adorable multiple videos that will make you spend the rest of your afternoon awwwing over hilarious twins, triplets, and beyond. I mean really, do you have anything better to do?

Just to whet your twin world appetite, and up the ante, here's a fab video of not only twin babies, but a dog. That's right, add a dog to that mix and you've got major cute overload.

Look, I get it. I remember. When you have your first kid, it really is overwhelming. Plus, some kids are just more intense than others. So I’m in no way saying that parents of one kid have it easy, or are wimps, or anything of the sort.

I’m just saying this: Now that I have two ... one seems like a cake walk.

I remember being so insulted when someone posted on Urban Baby that having one baby is like having a houseplant. How dare they! I thought! How heartless! How judgmental!

How true.

What's more incredible than beating the slim odds to produce identical twins? Having it happen twice over. The result for Michele and James Dawson may be the cutest thing I've ever seen -- 6-year-old identical twins holding their infant sisters who are themselves a matched set.

The couple are now the proud parents of Lilly and Sophie, 6, and Isabella and Chloe, born this past May. The pictures of the four kids captured by British press are historical and absolutely adorable. But can we talk about how miraculous this really is?

If you've committed yourself to the greenest of lives, it’s possible you've taken the whole “small carbon footprint” thing to the extreme, and decided having children is bad for the earth. After all, overpopulation sucks up all the earth’s resources, while spitting out enough toxins to get under the skin of all 10 billion of us that will be here sometime around 2100. Chances are you look upon a minivan full of children as a crime against the earth. But I happened to be listening to the radio the other day, when one dad and writer said we should stop bemoaning the damages of creating all these babies and wake up to the reality that big families could be saviors of the future, economically as well as environmentally.

Lucky BadgersProving there's a study for everything, Bounty.com polled over 2,000 parents to determine what the best possible combination of children was for the family unit. Yes, it's completely and totally arbitrary, but you really want to know, don't you? Especially since you have ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL over what gender your baby turns out to be. It's great hearing how wonderful it is, that thing that someone else has that you don't. Especially when that thing makes them the happiest freaking people on the block. Right?

Ack. So here it is. Having two girl children makes you happiest of all. As a mom to one boy and one girl, of course I'm calling bullshit on that. But the study says so, because they interviewed parents and asked them to "rank their children’s behaviour based on categories including ease of care, compatibility, and overall behaviour."

And here's how the rest of the combos come in, from best to worst:

Remember Carolyn and Sean Savage? The couple from Ohio suffered a devastating loss when they were told Carolyn had been implanted with the wrong embryo, and was pregnant with someone else's child. After carrying the baby boy for nine months, and giving birth, the Savages turned him over to his biological parents in Michigan.

It was a sad story of loss for a couple who had already gone through so much in trying to have a baby. How many of us wondered if we could do the same thing? Carrying a baby for nine months, learning to love that baby, only to have him taken away after you gave birth. (Not to mention suffering through the pains of pregnancy where the end result was disappointment.)

But now the Savages have something to celebrate. The couple is expecting twins! And this time, there's no way the pregnancy will duplicate the last one in 2009.