I wonder?!

[BDB18]

Hey ladies,

So I'm 11+2 weeks pregnant with my second. I don't know why I just can't shake the feeling that it may possibly be twins?! I am a non identical twin & so it's my mum. My scan is next Tuesday, I cannot wait!

I just feel like I'm showing so early on have felt this way since about 6 weeks! Il attach a pic but did anyone else have the 'feeling' and do you show earlier with twins??

I'm a size 10 normally but I can't fit into my jeans and haven't been able to since about 7-8 weeks.
I know they say about bloat but this 'bump' never disappears!

Any comments would be so appreciated! X

My first pic is me at 8 weeks & second me now at 11 weeks x

Anyone? 😄

Don’t have any experience but congratulations on the pregnancy either way!

When I was pregnant with twins the difference for me was the copious amounts of throwing up. I wasn't really showing at that point. On subsequent pregnancies you can get a bump much after than before as everything is prestretched!

Earlier not after

I didn’t notice much of a difference in early pregnancy apart from more sickness. Was a total shock when I had the scan! By 20 weeks it was very obvious though!

I’ve only been pregnant once so can’t tell you about the difference, but I definitely had a little bump before my first scan. You could see it enough that I took to wearing baggier clothes and some girls at work said they knew I was pg before I told them. I wore my only pair of trousers that I could fasten, work ones, to my first scan.

I didn’t have any particular ‘feeling’ though.

I had the opposite with morning sickness! HG with my singleton, felt far better during my twin pregnancy! I started to show around 10 weeks.

Thanks for all your replies!! I guess I will have to just wait & see....

Do you think it's normal with a singleton to feel like I have a bump already?!

What was all your bellies like with twins at 7-10 weeks...

I have had sickness but I wouldn't say it's been awful! It's been pretty much every day but has slowed down the last week

X

Statistically you have a higher chance of having twins. Could do.

@PurBal I do. Il update this thread in a weeks time 😍 x

I have only been pregnant once (with non identical twins) so can't compare but I wasn't showing at my 13 week scan. By 16 weeks however, I had grown so much. I remember DH doing a double take when I came downstairs one morning.

You have a much higher chance being an dcda twin yourself, however, neither of my non ID twin aunts went on to have twins and neither did their daughters. I did though so the gene was floating around.

Do let us know

Could well be. I showed really early with my twins (also second pregnancy) and I was so, so sick, I joked to my husband: there must be two in there to make me feel so sick. Ha.

When I was pregnant with twins the main thing I noticed was every pregnancy symptom was amplified. I was absolutely starving a lot and if I didn’t eat something within 5 mins of feeling sick I would have grown up. Stuffing bread in my mouth before paying for it (whilst in the queue or something. Stopping for pasta or a sandwich at a petrol station and having to eat at the lights. You get the picture. Also I got really out of breath early on. Couldn’t understand why I found it more difficult to walk at a quicker pace.
It still came as an utter shock at 12 weeks but looking back the signs were there

@Quornflakegirl - thanks so much for you reply. Awwww wow 😮 I bet you was shocked! So sweet though. Can I ask did you have really bad sickness or pregnancy symptoms that were really strong? See I had nausea & sickness the first 9 weeks & now I occasionally have the nausea in which I dry heave ( awful ) 😂 but it is no where near as exaggerated as other twin Mumma's get! X

@isurvived3under2 LOVE your user name 😂 thanks so much for your reply. See this is where I'm questioning, am I? I was really nausea and sick till about 9 weeks. Now I just feel nauseas not every day and occasionally throw up. I haven't had the exaggerated sickness! In fact apart from the big belly so early on nothings really been exaggerated! X

@Time2change2 thanks for your reply!!! That made me laugh - stuffing bread in to your mouth at the queue, totally understand what you mean though! See I don't feel like that & none of my symptoms are exaggerated. The first 9 weeks I was really nauseas & sick. Then it stopped! 4 days till my scan we will see. Maybe I'm just having one HUGE baby 😂 x

As you can tell I'm awake early! Headaches & the occasional waking up at stupid o clock are about as exaggerated as my symptoms get x

The first trimester was horrendous, I was sick multiple times a day. The sickness and exhaustion were unbelievable. All I was thinking was that no one had mentioned how awful being pregnant is! The sickness continued pretty much until I gave birth at 34 weeks. The exhaustion was bad too, I was asleep before 7pm for the entire first trimester.

My girls are 8 soon, it goes so fast!

I’m 13 weeks with twins, had a singleton previously. This time, I had horrific ligament pain and then very suddenly my bump appeared the next day at 12 weeks, and it is significantly larger than my bump for DD. I found out about the twins at my scan, and was not surprised because all my symptoms have been much stronger than with DD. I started throwing up at 12dpo, whereas with DD not till 6 weeks, and have been sick enough that I’ve had to go onto an antiemetic. Stretching pains in pelvis and abdomen from 5 weeks, whereas I had them very much later with DD. So basically timing of everything has been earlier and everything is more severe.

@BDB18 Let us know how you get on in your scan. I’m interested to know if you are expecting twins!

In my first pregnancy I had a strong feeling I was expecting twins, after a few weeks wrote it off as just giddiness with first baby, but at 12 week scan suggested that there likely had been a twin early on who hadn’t lasted long.

In second preg I had no such feeling, and had another single, but I started to show very early - it’s common for those muscles to ‘spring out’ apparently second time round.

So who knows! Exciting! How long now til your scan?

Thank you for your replies 💕💕 it's so interesting hearing twin Mumma's views. Some have severe symptoms some don't! Who knows I just keep googling twin pregnancy and talking about it! My scans tomorrow at 2.30 il probably look like a right wolly with just the one! Will be lovely either way I can't wait to see my scan pic! Haha I just can't stop thinking it is, I didn't have this with my little girl xxx

It's this growing bump that has been growing since 7-8 weeks that has me wondering aswell.... we will see tomorrow! 😍 x

Good luck for your scan. My bump was like that with dc2 and dc3. Single pregnancies!

Yes potentially, non id twins run in the family (your family are more likely to ovulate twice in a month)