Amniocentesis with identical twins

[MilsCookie]

Hi there,

I'm currently 18+5 weeks pregnant with identical mo/di twins and have been offered amniocentesis due to my twin b having a single umbilical artery and absent ductus venosus. These two things can be soft markers for a genetic abnormality. Twin b also has early sIUGR (22% size discordance currently).

I was told all this information at 16 weeks and initially declined the amniocentesis due to the 1-2% risk of miscarriage. But obviously it's all going round in my head and we might consider having the test after the 20 week anomaly scan.

Has anyone had an amniocentesis with twins? I suppose I'm looking for success stories and maybe some reassurance as it's such a hard time. I had a mmc at 12 weeks in November last year so I am terrified that I might also lose these babies 😔.

Thanks in advance.

Congratulations! What a great outcome.

Congratulations! My twins were also born at 34 weeks exactly :) x

Fantastic @Simz01!! How are you all getting on? How old are they now? Xx

@MilsCookie thank you! They are 3.5 weeks old, born on 27 Jan. it’s overwhelming sometimes but getting there - we were in hospital for a while due to our little girls feeding and she was on tube, so still settling in at home. How are you getting on ? X

@Simz01 it's very overwhelming isn't it! Our girls were also in hospital for 16 days for feeding (both had tubes) and growing. We had rocky few weeks when they were 6-9 weeks old as they had reflux and cows milk protein allergy but we didn't know what was going on so it took a while for us to get the right combination of milk and medicine to help them before things got better! Are yours past their due date yet? Xx

@Simz01 oh sorry stupid question, just remembered they were born at 34 weeks so they can't be past their due date! 🙈 get in touch if you experience prolonged periods of crying once they're past their due date, I can help you with what we had to do! Not saying that will happen at all, it's just when it happened to us I had no idea what to do and I wish someone had given me some guidance in the first instance!