5 weeks 2 days | Twin paranoia!

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Hello!
I hope it's okay to vent my crazy hormonal feelings here! I'm 5 weeks 2 days with my 5th pregnancy. I got a faint BFP at 7DPO which was confirmed with a digital on 10DPO. I used advanced CB digital to track ovulation. I'm 37.
I'm feeling exceptionally more "pregnant" than I've ever felt at this early stage in other pregnancies. Extra hungry. Sicky. All the normal stuff but just a bit earlier and extra. But most noticeable I feel my uterus/womb area, that feels soooo much bigger than last pregnancies this early. To the stage where I've had to order a pregnancy pillow to help me sleep as I feel that area needs support!
I'm sure I'm just crazy hormonal but I feel super paranoid that it's twins. I have never had those thoughts before either. Never thought about twins and always only a singleton at first scans. I keep telling myself I'm just paranoid because my youngest three are all quite small still, it would be extra difficult, DP would have a breakdown! So I think maybe it's worry and not intuition. Doesn't help algorithm on FB seems to know my thoughts and keeps showing me videos of twin gender reveals!!!
Has anyone had this feeling and booked a private scan to see? I don't know whether to do this or just hold on to 12 weeks.
Tell me it's just the hormones....!!! Thanks

I had a feeling - I would describe it more as a strange “knowing” actually- that I was having twins, very early in my last pregnancy.

I even started looking at triple buggies online (as I had a young DD already). Ended up with an early scan due to some bleeding at 6 weeks

• and it was twins, and they were okay, the pregnancy went well.

Also had a early positive test at about the same time as you did.. fuelling your twin paranoia now

As for me, I have just found out I pregnant again - only four weeks and hoping, in the nicest way, that it isn’t another twin pregnancy.. I’ve only just recovered from the last one and they are 10 now 😬

I don't think there's a reliable way of knowing this early. Lots and lots of people have early positives, early symptoms and feel really pregnant early on. In fact, v early hcg levels are not too dissimilar in singleton vs twin pregnancies. At 14dpo, a singleton pregnancy can have a higher hcg level than a multiple in fact.

I've been on MN long enough to see many threads where people have been convinced it's twins and to date, they've all ended up carrying singletons.

I get those twin and triple reveals on FB all the time too! No clue why. My baby days are long gone but they're rather compelling!

@Princessandthepeas thank you for taking the time to share this awesome story!!!! It is fuelling my paranoia, for sure! But is also so so interesting! Hugest congratulations on your new pregnancy! How exciting!

May I ask, are twins in your family?

My Mums Mum miscarried twins as her 5th pregnancy but that’s the only story in mine of twins that I’m aware of 🤔

I had an amazingly symptom free pregnancy up until about 20 weeks when I was pregnant with twins. It was a breeze compared to my first pregnancy

@ShowOfHands I’ve just spent an hour reading lots of posts that have asked this same question and although there were comments like the lovely twin Mumma above who had experienced this, every OP I’ve just research was only expecting a singleton!!! Those that updated anyway! So I think you’re right!
Probably just paranoia!!!

@Nahhh That's very lucky! I've had symptoms with all four of my previous pregnancies! I would say my daughter slightly more than my three sons! Just goes to show every pregnancy and person, singleton or multiple, is different!
I'm sure I'm just being a paranoid!

I had twins and had zero symptoms - if I wasnt being scanned from 6 weeks due to being high risk I would never have guessed twins based on symptoms alone. That being said I was in maternity wear by 9 weeks

But this is your 5th pregnancy so you showing earlier even with a Singleton is very normal

@twinningatlife it's not so much showing it's a feeling of being bigger inside much earlier, and that so more than my 4th pregnancy in which I most likely grew faster than 1st 2nd & 3rd, but can honestly say this is "new"! That's the only way I can explain it! Symptoms feels stronger and earlier. Honestly though, I'm sure it's all in my imagination!!!!! I have a good one of those!
And these hormones don't help!
Thanks for sharing your experience

I had an early scan last week at 7 weeks just because I didn’t feel very pregnant and I wanted to check everything was ok after a previous early loss.
It’s healthy looking twins. DH and I were in shock.
I still don’t feel particularly pregnant at nearly 8 weeks.

@bollocksthemess WOW! Hugest congratulations! And amazing that you’re not experiencing any symptoms at all! Your babies are totally magical and thoroughly deserved following your previous loss

I've had a chance to have a really good look on here for similar feelings and oh my goodness I can't believe how many there are!!!
And I can't believe that most of the people that create a post on this turn out to be having a singleton!

I'm comforted in my craziness slightly by lots of kind twin mummas that have commented on previous posts to say they did have an inkling!

But because I'm the OP of one of these posts I am bound NOT to be expecting twins! Regardless of how huge my insides feel this time! It will just be one ;-)

I never guessed I was having twins. I was more sickly than my first pregnancy, and had night sweats, but it never crossed my mind and I was genuinely shocked when I discovered I was having two.

I’ve seen loads of threads where the OP is convinced it’s twins and it always turns out to be a singleton so I’m sure you’ll be fine. If you are having them you will manage!

Somebody has to be the exception to prove the rule op!

I had that feeling of being bigger inside with one of my pregnancies, as did a friend. We both had self-resolving, benign cysts which sometimes develop in pregnancy. It was the pressure/fullness from that we were feeling.

@TheMagicDeckchair I have two different best friends who both have sets, one natural non-identical and the other had fertility treatment and non identical, so IF there happens to be two I will be very well supported! DP will be worried but I agree it's always okay in the end!

So is it twins?