Wanishing twins?

[Damarida]

Hello, everyone

In the past few weeks it’s been quite a rollercoaster. I went to have a private scan two weeks ago where they saw gestational sac and a yolk sac, a fetal pole and a heartbeat. They also saw something that could be a suggestive of second yolk sac, but it didn’t show heart beat. They advised me to make an appointment with early pregnancy unit for repeat scan a week later. So I did phone EPU and they took me in for the scan in less than a week (last Tuesday 10.Dec) and it was mind blowing as I was then told and shown on the screen that there are three yolk sacs and 3 heart beats within one gestational sac, and that there is another gestational sac with fetal pole but no heart beat. Of course I was warned about vanishing twin syndrome and that not all of them could make it.

Today, that’s one week later, I had another scan. And it was devastating, as a doctor( different from last time) only saw one gestational sac, and only one baby in it and even that one didn’t have a heartbeat anymore. So doctor said that sadly that’s end of this pregnancy. I’m booked in next Tuesday again for a scan to confirm that miscarriage is taking a place and to discuss further action.

My question would be if any of you had similar situation? Would a twin be seen in week 7 with a heartbeat and everything, then it has completely vanished at week 8? Can vanishing twin disappear in just one week that it is not seen even on the scan? After todays scan I am totally devastated, as I was trying for a baby for the last two years and I was still on the waiting list to fertility clinic. I guess I was ready for news that a wee tiny fetal pole without heartbeat in a separate gestational sac won’t make it, but it is a huge shock that none of the three in main gestational sac made it either. The remaining one didn’t have a heartbeat anymore, but are there any odds that other two just went hiding and could still be there? I just can’t accept this yet, and trying to comfort myself telling that maybe they just went hiding. It’s so hard, my heart breaks.

I have no advice, but I just wanted to say I'm so sorry you're going through this. Hugs 🙏❤️

I'm so sorry you are going through this OP .
A rollercoaster indeed! The foetus/s are still SO tiny at this stage, and different U/sound equipment and sonographers have differing skills. A colleague years ago had a scan which showed twins. She was then told they'd died and was booked in for a medical termination. She insisted on another scan before the termination, and 1 baby had a heartbeat! That baby is now 15.

I hope things work out, but if they don't, Tommys and the miscarriage association have some great advice and helplines too.
www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/

Oh, I’m so sorry to hear this @Damarida 💐

Hopefully the next scan you have will show that all is not lost.

Thank you for all your good thoughts.

@JC03745 @Zippidydoodah I believe this time it was a doctor with good experience in multiple births(she said she is a doctor), because last week on my scan, lady who did a scan, she was just a trained sonographer-midwife. Thought last week lady- she seemed very good, she spotted all the details, she took her time, and she nicely explained everything. But today- the doctor, she seemed so confident in what she saw in looking just literally two minutes to tell sorry and then few more minutes to take the measurements of last visible baby with no heartbeat. I guess that’s for them to see and compare next week that there is no more growing happening. And I was in the same room, so i assume the same u/sound equipment was used.
And Im still shocked that two twins just disappeared in one week. All three of them in particular gestational sac were quite similar size. How it comes that two vanished and were not visible and third one was there? Would that mean they died shortly after last weeks’ scan and got absorbed completely in just one week? They grow so slowly, but then disappeared so quickly. I can’t get my head around it.

Actually just checked the letter, I was given last week after the scan, for my GP(to ask to prescribe me cyclogest 400mg twice a day and folic acid 5mg), and it was signed by a doctor consultant obstetrician&gynaecologist, and she was very good! But today I understood it was a doctor with a good experience in multiple pregnancies as I mentioned before. I’m not sure who I will see next week thought. I’m so scared about next week.

Could the sac with one baby be the same as was last week? and maybe hiding the sack with 3 in?

Sending hugs x

@BusyCaz , that’s an interesting idea, but in all that fuss I didn’t ask what measurements were today, to compare of the one last week, to think about coincidence of it being the one in tiny gestational sac they saw last week without heartbeat. But then, how possibly the biggest gestational sac with three ones went hiding? Could it really be that this doctor today overlooked everything so so badly? I’m so scared to hope that this could be indeed possible. But then it sounds so crazy that two twins disappeared with leaving one.

well, a doctor told me I can continue cyclogest pessaries till next weeks scan for my own peace, and I will definitely continue taking it, because everything sound so crazy. You @BusyCaz gave me a bit of hope. ❤️

An update. I had another scan yesterday. Unfortunately things were bad. There was only one gestational sac visible, still with a foetal pole in it, but like in last week, there was no heartbeat and no growth either. Also it appeared within gestational sac something like chorionic bump, but doctor couldn’t confirm for sure and they are bringing be in again fir another scan next Tuesday. In the meantime they told me to stop progesterone pessaries to let miscarriage happen naturally, so now it is a waiting when unpleasant process will start and just to get over it. I’m trying to enjoy Christmas with my family and my kids, but can’t deny that I feel very down. 😢

I'm so sorry 😥sending you hugs x

Bless you. I’m so sorry 😢

Probably my last update. Yesterday I went in to day procedure unit for surgical management of miscarriage. Went in 7am 2pm. and was discharged I was told afterwards that all went well. Recovery was easy and I didn’t had much pain afterwards, didn’t need to take any painkillers. Only thing that I was administered was anti-D immunoglobulin as I am rhesus negative. Didn’t experience much of a bleeding yesterday, neither during the night. I feel relieved after all this rollercoaster. Now just will wait for hcg to return to normal and for my period to come back.😔

That's so rough. I hope you're doing okay. ❤️🙏