A twin’s reaction to being placed beside his brother has melted hearts online.
In a reel on Instagram, their mom Elise Devenny, from Perth, Australia, shared footage from her baby monitor showing what happened after her twins woke up from a nap in separate cribs.
The twin already in the crib visibly lights up and the two cuddle—a milestone moment Elise hadn’t seen before.
“I was so surprised by the reaction,” the 31-year-old told Newsweek. “Unlike what many people might think, sometimes twins aren’t born with the magical connection everyone dreams about. It develops over time, and this was the first time I’d seen them react to each other like this.”
The twin mom captioned her reel: “The only ‘just wait’ I want”—a nod to the way parents, particularly new and expectant ones, are often warned to brace themselves for the hardest parts of raising children.
Twin pregnancy, Elise explained, can be overwhelming in ways that aren’t always acknowledged. “[And] for some reason, people love to give you the negative ‘just wait until’ comments as if having children is some awful scary thing. ‘You think you’re tired now, just wait until you get no sleep’ is the classic one.”
Instead, she wanted to reframe that narrative. “Seeing my twins react to each other for the first time, that’s what I wish someone had have told me to ‘just wait until’ while I was pregnant or in the newborn trenches,” Elise said.
Elise’s reel has gone viral on Instagram (@elise.devenny), clocking up 6.5 million views. In the comments, hearts melted over the wholesome interaction.
One user called it a “cuteness overload,” while another said it gave them “baby fever.” At 7½ months old, Elise said her twins’ relationship is still very much a work in progress. So far, parenting them has often felt like caring for “two babies that just exist in parallel.”
That reality can come as a surprise to people who expect twins to share an instant, inseparable bond. Elisa shared that many twins, including her own, are born prematurely and spend time in neonatal intensive care where they are separated not only from their parents, but from each other.
Still, small moments hint at what’s to come. “Every now and then, they will catch each other’s gaze and giggle, and I can see their bond growing as they do.”
