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to think I'm not 'bonkers' for thinking I might be pregnant with twins?

275 replies

jessiefish · 22/02/2017 22:36

This is my fourth pregnancy. With the first three I didn't truly believe I was pregnant until the scan as I didn't feel any symptoms at all. This time I tested early and a clearly visible line appeared within thirty seconds. I felt 'heavy' in my stomach within a week, totally went off food, feel completely sick and can't eat after 2pm, apologies for TMI but I have lots of discharge, a really dry mouth, I've gone up a dress size and look the same as I did at 4 months pregnant during my last pregnancy.

I've seen people looking but they've been too polite to ask. I've had lots of cramping and have been so tired I've had to pull over after driving for just ten minutes. All this and I'm only 9 weeks. I mentioned to my sister today that I'm worried it could be twins and she said I was bonkers and over dramatic and that it's just because I'm older than my last pregnancy and because all pregnancies are different. I agree the latter could well be the case but I was only last pregnant two years ago. I feel so very different and think twins could be the reason. AIBU to suspect it or am I being a drama queen?

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kookiecookie3 · 23/02/2017 07:52

I am 9 weeks with my third, I have had the same thought ever since my lines were very dark, also a CB digi said 3+ weeks when it should of only said 1-2, 2-3 at the most!! I know they are not always accurate and from when I know we dtd (anniversary and Birthday) i may have ov'd early.
I would love twins, although having just lost my mum (I believe she has sent this baby, lmp on her funeral) who I knew loved the though of twins I would find it extremely hard. Plus we've got a family holiday when I would 31-33weeks and if it was twins I doubt I could go, and don't want to let my dad down as he's paid for it!

Giraffesaretootall · 23/02/2017 07:52

How exciting! Good luck at the scan! Never knew multiples insurance was a thing by sounds like it may be worth it...

Mrsemcgregor · 23/02/2017 07:52

Totally placemarking to find out if it's 1, 2 or more!!!!

clickershed · 23/02/2017 07:55

Um... place marking too!

clickershed · 23/02/2017 07:56

Wow - insurance - good idea!

Ilovewillow · 23/02/2017 07:56

Congratulations either way! I hope it goes as you would hope.

NeedMoreSleepOrSugar · 23/02/2017 07:58

Oh good luck!
We wondered the same about this pregnancy as I had to start wearing maternity clothes at 8 weeks, yet I was still wearing ordinary tops (with maternity trousers which were still a little loose)at full term with dd. Also far more sickness, fatigue etc etc. There's definitely only one though unless the second one is a ninja baby hiding from every scan this one just must want to make their presence felt more!

neonrainbow · 23/02/2017 08:00

Ive got twins. I tested 5 days before my period was due and got an incredibly strong line. Also completely, bone shatteringly exhausted until about 20 weeks and i started showing from about 10 weeks. Twins are awesome :)

empirerecordsrocked · 23/02/2017 08:04

I have twins. I didn't get a positive until 8 days after my period was due, no morning sickness and not much of a bump until 18ish weeks.

But I knew before the scan it was twins, just had a feeling and low and behold there were two in there.

Middleoftheroad · 23/02/2017 08:05

With my twins I had no early symptoms and I was so paranoid I was no longer pregnant that I went for a private scan

. At the time I thought I was pg with one. went for an early scan and got shock of my life! Grin

The twin symptoms came later. Most notable was the extreme tiredness. Though I did not show for five months! Then I grew. And grew.....

HCantThinkOfAUsername · 23/02/2017 08:06

Congratulations GrinFlowers

KP86 · 23/02/2017 08:14

Hmmm... sorry everyone, I can't find a current twin insurance provider. Zurich used to do it.

I'm sure I saw one last year when I was searching after I first heard of it but google is not my friend this morning.

Jojay · 23/02/2017 08:19

Who knows? I have twins, dc 3&4, and had no additional symptoms at all. You could have knocked me down with a feather at the 12 wk scan as I didn't see it coming AT ALL. No family history, nothing.

Fingers crossed for a healthy baby, be it one or two.

flumpybear · 23/02/2017 08:20

Congratulations!!! My aunt had twins with baby 4/5 too .... good luck I hope you get the result you want at your scan!!

Love51 · 23/02/2017 08:20

I was convinced my second was twins. He wasn't. My first pregnancy had been one of those ones that is sickening to normal people, no side effects, just a bump. My second was more in keeping with other peoples, hip pain, sickness, early growth. It felt like twins in comparison. I asked the sonographer to have a thorough check Blush
So, you might be wrong. But wrong isn't the same as bonkers!

BillyButtfuck · 23/02/2017 08:26

Good luck Op Flowers

MrsRhubarb · 23/02/2017 08:28

I felt exactly the same with this pregnancy, it was like everything from my last pregnancy but 1000x, and I was sure it was twins. It's a second DD (singular).

RandomMess · 23/02/2017 08:37

My pregnancy with my fourth (singleton) was hideous early one too, I actually felt really unwell within what must have been days of conception!!! Was very relieved at the early scan when they confirmed it was just one...

girlandboy · 23/02/2017 08:37

Congratulations! But just wanted to say that I had all the same symptoms as you, and I was in maternity jeans at 6 weeks! Twins? No, just one very large baby!

hellswelshy · 23/02/2017 08:39

Difficult to know I suppose! My twins were my first (and only) so when people eyed my 12 week bump with suspicious looks I assumed I had my dates wrong. As I had no experience to go by, I didn't think anything of this! Although a work mate who had children declared ‘you have a double dose in there!!'
It was therefore the single most heart stopping dramatic moment at the scan when they told dh and I it was twins Shock I could barely form a sentence apart from random sweary words!!

A rollercoaster of a pregnancy and birth but 9 years on I wouldn't change a thing Smile

contrary13 · 23/02/2017 08:42

Congratulations Flowers

My second pregnancy, when I was 28, was exactly as you described - absolute exhaustion, ridiculous morning sickness, the heaviness of the stomach, and a niggling little feeling in the back of my brain. I tested very early on - I think it was round about the two week mark - via the GP as a routine "do you think you might be pregnant?" gateway (I needed a repeat prescription and she took one look at me, listened to the knackered whinge, and insisted on testing me), and the nurse was astonished when the line on their test strip came up immediately. I knew when conception had happened, because it was the only time that year that my ex had managed to convince me to DTD (February 14th...), and was asked, almost immediately "do twins run in your family?". Well, yes; they do. My grandmother was a twin (her twin sister was stillborn), and had twins (although my uncle's sister died shortly after birth). My mother also miscarried twins between myself and DB2. It wasn't out of the realm of possibility.

At 8 weeks, I started to bleed in the middle of the night. Had to wait five days for a scan, due to the Easter weekend that year. Saw the tiny little bean that became my DS (12) and what was left of his twin. The radiographer was brilliant. The doctor she called to talk to me? Not so much. But I have a wonderful, funny, kind, loving 12 year old son and, frankly, although I'll always wonder what his twin would have been like (I like to think it was a girl), I am so grateful that he hung on in there. Even if I did spend the entire rest of my pregnancy absolutely terrified and swore I would never go through another one because of the whole experience! (I also wonder if, someone had seen me that night, rather than five days later, if his twin might have been here, too).

Twins aren't just a "thing" of pregnancy in older women/intervention. They also run in families. Trust your instincts, OP, and again - congratulations, whether it's a single or a multiple!

PotOfYoghurt · 23/02/2017 08:44

Congratulations!

Only fraternal twins run in families, identical twins are just random.

I hope your scan on Monday is all fine Flowers

Juveniledelinquent · 23/02/2017 08:48

Congratulations on your pregnancy Flowers. Please let us know how it goes.

Lumpylumperson · 23/02/2017 08:48
Flowers
BaconMaker · 23/02/2017 08:55

Good luck on Monday Flowers. YOu'd be crazy to make an announcement that you're definitely expecting twins - of course you're not crazy for having your suspicions though - totally possible!

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