Twins and godparents

[annettemarie]

This might be a silly question, but do twins share godparents or do they each get their own pair?

[Tradd]

I've seen it both ways. Just do whatever's easiest.

[genifer]

that is actually a really good question!

I have twins and while they dont have godparents, this type of thing comes up for me as their mum. It depends on how you view your twins. In some ways it was naturally easier to deal with them as if they were one. This sounds awful, I know, but only in things like bathing and nursing and stuff like that which made my life easier when they were babies. Do you see your twins as individuals? If you were baptising two siblings who werent twins would they have thier 'own' godparent? Are ALL your kids sharing the same godparents? What is the role of the godparent? All these questions may come into play when making decisions like this. I would treat your twins the way you treat all your other kids (assuming you have any more) in this regard as you do with everything else.

Personally, I would have definately have had two seperate godparents for them. The reason would be bc of why I would have wanted godparents in the first place. Someone special to them who could be a mentor, someone spiritually mature who will help us in reenforcing our spiritual beliefs...

So, for US, it would have definately been two different godparents for our girls as well as someone else for our son (who is a singleton).

[annettemarie]

They're not here yet, so I don't really know how I view them, LOL! I would like to think I will want to keep them as individual as possible.

All my other kids have their own set of godparents. I'm just not sure we can come up with 4, to be honest. I'd like to if I can, but it's just one more thing to add to the ginormous list of things I need to think about and deal with.

[annettemarie]

One last thing I see godparents as someone who, first and foremost, is praying for my child. Daniel didn't even meet his godfather until he was two. Only one of my kids has a godmother who is really active in his life.

[sagewinna]

One of our God Daughters is a twin. They have separate God parents.

[lilyka]

all of my children were baptized at once. We had the option of one godmother or having a godmother for each of them. We went with a seperate godmother for each (although the two youngest have a set of sisters who work together they are so cute. And there parents also played a big role in preparing for the baptism and still are a large part of the girls lives. So it is almost like that whole family are thier godparents.)

But believe it or not I have given this a lot of thought (my job allows for my mind to wander. If Iever have twins I can tell you what I would name them and who their godparents would be and how old they would be when they got baptized and how the font would be decorated....its a really boring job) They would each have seperate Godparents. I really love how all my childrens God parents work together and each contribute to all three of my children's lives as well as mine. We are so much richer for having in them in our lives and I wouldn't miss the chance to add another set of helping hands and loving hearts to our family.

[genifer]

Well, your siggie gives nothing away! Congratulations on being pregnant AND with twins!! How far along are you? Having twins is SO exciting. We are special mammas... ALL mammas are special but being a mum of multiples made me feel really special!

how exciting!!

[griffin2004]

My twin nephews each got their own set of godparents.

I can see either way working (ex: non-twin sibs might have the same godparents), but I'd tend toward separate sets. Twins get smooshed into 1 entity in so many other ways.

[Nazsmum]

I hope it is OK to say here. I just wanted to say Congrads on the TWINS!! I know how much you want a baby and now you are having twins.

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by Nazsmum

I hope it is OK to say here. I just wanted to say Congrads on the TWINS!! I know how much you want a baby and now you are having twins.

Thanks! It is definitely an answer to a prayer.

I really would like to find each baby their own set of godparents if possible. We have so many kids, we're running out of good choices, LOL! We can't really choose any church friends because it would just be awkward with DH being the pastor, and a bunch of our friends are anabaptists and don't believe in infant baptism.

[lil_miss_understood]

My twin brothers have the same godparents. My parents' view of godparents was that they were who you wanted the child to be raised by in the event of an untimely death. We didn't all have the same godparents eta: but my mom felt it was "unnatural" for twins to be separated so she chose to give the twins the same ones.

[lilyka]

That never occured to me. In our tradition Godparents have nothing to do with who would raise your kids if you died. But if it did I would thinking having thr same one for twins would be important.

[mtiger]

My brother and I (not twins) have/had the same godparents, as do my kids (also not twins).