In about 75% of cases by the time you go into labour twin 1 is head down.
In 40% of cases both are head down - most UK consultants would recommend trying vaginal birth in this circumstance..
In 35% of cases the second is breech - this in itself doesn't stop you attempting natural birth.
In 25% of cases baby 1 is breech and there's an automatic caesarian.
It's not unusual for baby 1 to be delivered naturally and baby 2 by c-section.
Forceps are more common for twins than for singletons*
Also because an ever increasing proportion of twins are 1st babies, due to IVF etc this possibly also makes intervention more likely.
*this, imo, might be at least in part because they need to do more monitoring, there's more automatic intervention and you are a lot less mobile in labour
Food for thought....
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