Irish Twin

[Spooner]

So one of my co-workers mentioned the other day that she has an "Irish Twin". Everyone laughed while I did the awkward laugh to kinda fit in.

She called me out on it and asked if I even knew what that was.

Supposedly she's got a younger brother 9 months younger than her.

Now to the group. . .please answer these two questions

1) How is this physically possible? Can women even have sex or do that sort of thing right after delivery?

2) What does being Irish have anything to do with it?

Supposedly this is a known term as everyone laughed. Please explain.

 

[vi edit]

Irish twin is just having two kids in one calendar year.

 

[Accipiter22]

irish people had a tonnnnnnnnn of children, often continuously.

 

[iamwiz82]

My oldest brothers are 9 months a 2 days apart. :shocked:

 

[Wallydraigle]

Irish=Catholic=No contraceptives=wimmin continuously barefoot and pregnant.

 

[FoBoT]

i never heard that term before

i am less than 1 year older than my brother

my bd is april 9
my brother was born mar 14 the following year

 

[Steve]

Doesn't count. You needed to be born in the same calendar year (e.g March and December of 1979 or whatever).

 

[SagaLore]

If you have sex right after birth, your chances of getting pregnant again are actually very high because you are so opened up and it allows the passage of sperm to the fallopian tubes rather easily. Once baby is gone, hormones resume the ovulation cycle - sperm live about 5 to 7 days inside the uterus.