How early did you know?

breech

how far along were you when they told you it was twins?  i dint find out till a little later with my daughter that she was a twin, was sondering if my dr. aat the time was just retarded, or if you just cant tell in the early stages.

debisheldon

7 weeks

JustaKidAtHeart

11 weeks.  U/S at 6w2d showed only one baby.

Moonpie73

8 wks

SNL0605

6w1d

sweater

I'm going to ignore the "retarded" mark, and just try to be helpful:?

I see you wrote that you have 5 kids, are the other four step-children? I assume some are since you're 22 yrs old (and if they are all yours, please don't take that as judgemental rather than just an assumption).

I only ask because you may be able to know your increased chances of another set of fraternal twins if those were singletons you carried and THEN became pregnant with twins. It's well known that women tend to hyperovulate after having a number of children. If non of the other four are yours, then it very well could be that you just hyperovulate naturally, and you should def tell your current doc to keep taking peeks in there to check it out!

laurncui812.0

6 wks.

SarahSmile907

Why did you have your U/S when you did?  I'm not scheduled for one until 16-19 wks, for the first and only.  I thought that is typical unless you have concerns or are working with an R/E? 

breech

2 of the kids are mine. i had my son first. a single birth , then my daughter, i lost her brother at 4 1/2 months. the rest are just his yes, thank god, that wouls be alot of children for somone my age to have physically birthed. lol

SNL0605

sweater:

I'm going to ignore the "retarded" mark, and just try to be helpful: 

I felt the same way...really wanted to comment...but bit my tongue

MandieSueM

At 5 1/2 weeks there were 3 babies but not all 3 had strong HBs.  At 8 weeks they were all still there and growing strong.

breech

My periods have always been hit and miss, so we didnt really have a lmp to go by, so i had a sono 2 check the dates. all dr.s are diffrent with sono practices. some give them out like candy ( mine did) and others are very stingy and give you only one.

breech

sorry about that "retarded" remark. wasnt trying to offend anyone. i guess i need to expand my descriptive vocabulary.  i just didnt think. sorry.

sweater

breech:

2 of the kids are mine. i had my son first. a single birth , then my daughter, i lost her brother at 4 1/2 months. the rest are just his yes, thank god, that wouls be alot of children for somone my age to have physically birthed. lol

I'm glad you didn't take offense to that, I was trying to get to the point of your pregnancy-history to try and help.

Hmmm...well, I'd say it's definitely something you need to bring up and get an early u/s for to check. It's very normal to miss a twin pregnancy with a super early u/s and to find two later (mine were found by accident at 14 wks wtih a doppler since I was only going to have one u/s at 20 wks).

I'm sorry you lost your little boy during your last pregnancy. If this is a twin-pregnancy or not, I hope all is healthy - good luck.?

sfitz0711

8 wks,  they did an u/s b/c of my previous m/c and my dr. thought there was a possibility of twins due to my intensified symptoms

Times2

6 weeks..(.i had an early ultrasound due to severe cramps)

MandieSueM

breech:

sorry about that "retarded" remark. wasnt trying to offend anyone. i guess i need to expand my descriptive vocabulary.  i just didnt think. sorry.

No offense here; I love that word.  It drives me NUTS that peope take words to mean hateful things when it obviously isn't intended to be pointed at them, even if they are used in jest, or as slang.  Lighten up, for god's sake.  It's not like you said, "Mentally Retarded," which is a condition.  Especially with a word that doesn't even meanecessarily only mean a developmental delay:

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?verb (used with object)

1.	to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.

?verb (used without object)

2.	to be delayed.

?noun

3.	a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.

4.	Slang: Disparaging. a. a mentally retarded person. b. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.

5.	Automotive, Machinery. an adjustment made in the setting of the distributor of an internal-combustion engine so that the spark for ignition in each cylinder is generated later in the cycle.

blairsgirl

5 weeks

sweater

MandieSueM:

breech:

sorry about that "retarded" remark. wasnt trying to offend anyone. i guess i need to expand my descriptive vocabulary.? i just didnt think. sorry.

No offense here; I love that word.? It drives me NUTS that peope take words to mean hateful things when it obviously isn't intended to be pointed at them, even if they are used in jest, or as slang.? Lighten up, for god's sake.? It's not like you said, "Mentally Retarded," which is a condition.? Especially with a word that doesn't even meanecessarily only mean a?developmental delay:

re?tard var interfaceflash = new LEXICOFlashObject ( "https://cache.lexico.com/d/g/speaker.swf", "speaker", "17", "15", "", "6"); interfaceflash.addParam("loop", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("quality", "high"); interfaceflash.addParam("menu", "false"); interfaceflash.addParam("salign", "t"); interfaceflash.addParam("FlashVars", "soundUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.lexico.com%2Fdictionary%2Faudio%2Fluna%2FR02%2FR0243800.mp3&clkLog=http%3A%2F%2Fwzqa01oak%2Fi%2Fb.html%3Ft%3Da%26d%3Dd%26s%3Ddi%26c%3Da%26ti%3D1%26ai%3D51359%26l%3Ddir%26o%3D0%26sv%3D00000000%26ip%3D%26u%3Daudio"); interfaceflash.addParam('wmode','transparent');interfaceflash.write(); /r?'t?rd, for 1?3, 5; 'rit?rd for 4/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ri-tahrd, for 1?3, 5; ree-tahrd for 4] Show IPA

?verb (used with object)

1.	to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.

?verb (used without object)

2.	to be delayed.

?noun

3.	a slowing down, diminution, or hindrance, as in a machine.

4.	Slang: Disparaging. a. a mentally retarded person. b. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.

5.	Automotive, Machinery. an adjustment made in the setting of the distributor of an internal-combustion engine so that the spark for ignition in each cylinder is generated later in the cycle.

?Now while I am not a sensitive person in general. I think a word like, "retarded" has better places to be used rather than a message board for babies and children - all I'm sayin. Trust me - my house is not very PC, but I try to use discretion in the right places, especially if the audience doesn't know me. You saying retard...well now, I would probably not assume the worst. But for any of the ladies on this board that it may offend for very obvious/sensitive reasons, I think?discretion is necessary.

I also don't recall anyone on this thread saying that word was "pointed at them". I think it was nicely pointed out, and not flamed.

MandieSueM

No, no, no! Honest, I wasn't flaming, I wasn't saying anyone else was flaming, I swear!  I hear you 100% about the non-PC household and "in the comfort of my own home" thing vs. on a public forum correctness.  It just happens to be one of my pet peeves that I'm expected to curb who I am and the way I talk for the purpose of being in public.  What ever happened to accepting people for who they are?  I'm not saying everyone has to like me (and there are plenty who don't, LOL), but I should be allowed to be who I am and say what I want.  If someone else were to take offense to it, they could chalk it up to "that girl is so ignorant" or "that girl is heartless" or "what a B!"  LOL  I don't care.  Same reasons I don't care if other people swear around my children - it's my place to teach my kids what is and isn't acceptable, not other people's place to judge and get all uppity about it.  Not that you were uppity either.  Not at all.  I agree that it was pointed out VERY nicely and low key.  It's just one of those things that gets me going, having to watch what I say on the internet, which is probably more public and loose than going to a bar, LOL  KWIM?  Sorry; I didn't mean to point fingers or start flames... 

dec13th

7w1D, I was dying to get into my RE's for the u/s, let me tell ya!!

sweater

MandieSueM:

No, no, no! Honest, I wasn't flaming, I wasn't saying anyone else was flaming, I swear!? I hear you 100% about the non-PC household and "in the comfort of my own home" thing vs. on a public forum correctness.? It just happens to be one of my pet peeves that I'm expected to curb who I am and the way I talk for the purpose of being in public.? What ever happened to accepting people for who they are?? I'm not saying everyone has to like me (and there are plenty who don't, LOL), but I should be allowed to be who I am and say what I want.? If someone else were to take offense to it, they could chalk it up to "that girl is so ignorant" or "that girl is heartless" or "what a B!"? LOL? I don't care.? Same reasons I don't care if other people swear around my children - it's my place to teach my kids what is and isn't acceptable, not other people's place to judge and get all uppity about?it.? Not that you were uppity either.? Not at all.? I agree that it was pointed out VERY nicely and low key.? It's just one of those things that gets me going, having to watch what I say on the internet, which is probably more public and loose than going to a bar, LOL? KWIM?? Sorry; I didn't mean to point fingers or start flames...?

You're okay dude - I think we understand eachother.

btw - one of the things I've always liked about you is your honesty.

mb72105

6 weeks

breech

dec13th:

7w1D, I was dying to get into my RE's for the u/s, let me tell ya!!

 

whats RE's mean ( sorry new to the lingo here)

heathb21

I was told at 6w3d, which was my first u/s.

BelleBaby

7w3d

JPW2006

6 weeks 5 days

maria15288

5 weeks

macchiatto

12 weeks.

I'm confused by you having two different tickers for Aurora with two different ages. Is she 2 years and 9 monts or 1 year and 9 months?