Children of Twins Early Development Study

🎉✨ CoTEDS 2026 Prize Draw Winners!✨🎉

🍀 Congratulations to our lucky 24 Prize Draw winners - Carly, Bethan, David, Sarah, Laurie, Patrick, Rebecca, Sophie, Paige, Dale, Lauren, Nisha, Gina, Jai, Patrick, Oliver, Lauren, Rhian, Hamza, Jay, Beth, Abigail and Shannon!

🧡 Huge thank you to all the amazing busy mums and dads who have helped support CoTEDS by completing questionnaires and DNA kits. We couldn’t do our research without you! Your support means so much to us, and this is just a small token of our appreciation.

✨ The next CoTEDS prize draw will take place next year in April again and will include everyone who has completed their questionnaires and DNA kits between May 2026 and April 2027!

🩵 Thanks again to all who shared such lovely family photos of your special moments to share with the growing CoTEDS community - we’ve tried to tag all of you but let us know if we missed anything!

Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day 💚
A reminder that maternal mental health matters-for mothers, children, and families everywhere. Let’s keep raising awareness, supporting one another, and continuing the conversation.

Huge congratulations to Dr Joanna Bright on this incredible achievement 🎓✨
In this PhD, Joanna explored specific behaviours within the CoTEDS dataset to understand how parents and children influence one another. But this is just a small part of a much bigger picture - there are many other questions we could explore about parent-child relationships and development.
We’d love to hear your ideas for future research in the comments! 💭👇

🎉 April 2026 CoTEDS Prize Draw is coming! 🎉

Our annual prize draws are an exciting additional way for us to thank the wonderful CoTEDS parents contributing to our research. We know how busy you are as parents - your ongoing support is everything to us 🧡

🎁 Complete your questionnaires (and DNA kits!) to be in with a chance of winning Love2Shop vouchers worth £100, £50 and £20!

There’s still time to take part and be entered before the end of the month! If you need a new DNA kit, just send us a DM.

💕 Thank you to all the parents that have already completed theirs - you’ve already been entered! 🙌

💌 👀 Winners will be notified on April 30th... Keep an eye out in your inbox!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mums in our CoTEDS community 💛
Thank you for sharing your journeys, your families, and your time with us. Your stories remind us of the wonderful people behind the research.
We’re so grateful to grow alongside your families 🌼