Hello,
Did first pregnancy tests a week ago - shocked at the +ives because I've had a copper coil (IUD) in for four years. So I check and can't find it.
First scan today reveals twins, and unclear evidence of whereabouts of the IUD.
The IUD - midwife reckons it's 'out of harm's way' if what she thought she saw was it lying to the bottom of my uterus. Ob-gyn says leave it be - possibly because it's more risky to try getting it out of there. Only trouble is, in the excruciatingly long week of waiting for the scan to find it, I found out that leaving it in (the uterus) makes for a 50-60% chance of miscarriage in 2nd trimester. Anybody know anything about this stuff?
The twins - well, apart from the utter shock of falling pregnant with (I thought) an IUD, now there's two babies! Midwife reckons they're identical and described them to the ob-gyn as MCMA, as in monochorionic-monoamniotic BUT had clearly said during the internal scan she saw two yolk-sacs (but no amniotic membrane between them). If all that were true, it would make the three of us little short of a freak show. What's going on here? Are they identical? Are they momo or mono-di?
Obviously I've got a lot of risk flying around in here, and I'd just rather have some honest evaluations of how flimsy or otherwise my chances are of keeping these babies alive and healthy. It's instantly become the thing that matters the most. And I got the feeling there was a lot going unsaid in the words 'it's very early stages'.
Honest but gentle, please. My hormones are through the roof.
Thanks x
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my news: IUD 'missing' + 6wk identical (poss. momo) twins. HELP!
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miraculous2 · 16/04/2014 23:45
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