What is the typical gestation for twins? Also a question...

lolc

I'm feeling a little snarky about this girl on my FB. She's my friend's-soon to be "baby mama." I say that because this is one of those... they were together for only a few months before she found out she was PG - with twins! And she friend requested me on FB so I accepted...

Anyway my first question: What is the typical gestation for twins?? Is it really only 33 weeks? This girl is saying she HOPES she has the babies at 33 weeks. Obviously for singletons, that it still pretty premature. Not sure how it works for twins...? Is it normal to hope to give birth at 33 weeks with twins? I would imagine the longer they stay in, the better.....

And 2nd.... is it typical for a multiples mommy to say "Baby A is MINE, Baby B is HIS..."?? This just seems like a very odd statement. And they are still in the honeymoon phase of being BF and GF so it wasn't a statement that was said in a fight or something like that.

This girl just gives off the major douche vibe... but maybe I'm just being too harsh. Or could my suspicions be right?

kimarino13

Your suspicions are right.  That girl is nuts.

caden

Is this girl over the age of 18?

GiGi1221

What a whacko- it's my understanding that 36-38 weeks is the best time for twins to arrive with many arriving at 35 also.

The whole baby a and b thing is just weird! Our A is very active and B is very laid back which is exactly DH and my personalities however I had never say "HIS" and "MINE" ?!?!

kristyn&ken

sounds liek your vibe is right...I'd hide her updates if I were you. It will likely only get worse as time goes by being she sounds completely uneducated about reproduction and pregnancy.

LALASEPT05

I was going to say she sounds VERY immature. I have read a few different things as far as the average gestation but 35 weeks is sticking out in my head and if it is lower then that is definitely being skewed by the number of those born premature. Full term is 36 to 38 weeks. I would not want my babies to come at 33 weeks. Certainly the survival rate is very high but just a few more weeks is so much better for their lungs and development. I would hide her on Facebook!

seattlestef

She's crazy. My ideal gestation would have been 37-38 weeks. 36 weeks is the average gestation for twins and 33w is less than ideal.

 

LMK8605

This girl sounds VERY immature.  33 weeks is early even for twins (not saying it can't happen and be okay, just that it isn't ideal).  37 weeks is considered full term for twins. 

As for the A is mine / B is his thing - that is just plain awful! very obnoxious! 

lolc

Yeah this girl just rubs me the wrong way!! She's 26.

Mine and DH's friend (he was one of our groomsmen at our wedding) keeps saying how we should meet up.... and while I want to see him, the more I get to "know" her on facebook, the more I do NOT want to meet this girl. She seems a bit.... wackadoo, lol. I think I'm going to make a comment on her "33 week" post right now.

kimarino13

I have a friend who is a PA in the NICU at the best hospital in town.  She said that they have had four TRIPLET moms make it past 34 weeks the past few months. 

janjag

kimarino13:

Your suspicions are right.  That girl is nuts.

ha ha!  and like pp, i want to know if this girl is over 18.

i've read that getting to 37wks or more is best.  of course it's better for babies to stay in as long as possible, but most ob's want to get twins out by 38 or 39wks. 

BelleBaby

No, you're right. 

Those babies can stay in there for 37w, 38w, plenty of us on here have gone that far.  To want to have them that early is plain nuts.  Let me guess, she doesn't want to get too fat?  She sounds like one of those.

Whether she knows it or not, Baby A and Baby B belong to both of them and it will take both of them to raise them.  She has no idea how much work twins are, especially when they're newborns. 

I'm seriously frightened for these children.

monkski

there is also a good chance that if they came at 33 weeks, they would have to spend some time in the NICU while their lungs developed. Not only is that emotionally challenging, but can be financially as well! Lucky for the kids, she doesn't get to "choose" to have them when she wants!

nolachick11

Mine were born at 33 weeks6 days emergency b/c I had pre-e and hellp syndrome.  Something you don't want.  I wish they would have stayed in longer.  My case was that it was such an emergency that I was completely knocked out and my husband couldn't even be in the room:(  They were in the nicu for 23 days.  They are great now but that was such a hard time for me.   You want twins to cook as long as they can. 

tmbuchmann

Was she on 16 & pregnant last week?

GiGi1221

tmbuchmann:

Was she on 16 & pregnant last week?

nice!

ErinCB

My only defense for her (not knowing her from anyone else)---is she maybe facing PTL already? And saying, "I hope they come at 33 weeks" would maybe be some sort of long term goal and a "good" (out of the worst) kind of thing?

I ask b/c DH has a co-worker whose wife is PG w/ twins. She's been contracting and on hospital bedrest since week 25. If she made it to 33 weeks, she'd be THRILLED.  I mean, 33 weeks would be better than 27weeks. IDK.

And for the "hers" and "his", could she be totally kidding about that? I mean, sometimes when my toddler acts like a little hellion, I tell DH that he's "HIS son". 

 

I mean, she could be a total whack job, but just to play devil's advocate here...

janjag

ErinCB:

My only defense for her (not knowing her from anyone else)---is she maybe facing PTL already? And saying, "I hope they come at 33 weeks" would maybe be some sort of long term goal and a "good" (out of the worst) kind of thing?

that's what we would hope! 

Haven1

BelleBaby:

To want to have them that early is plain nuts.  Let me guess, she doesn't want to get too fat?  She sounds like one of those.

I was thinking the exact same thing.  Massive eyeroll to this lady.  Good luck, kids.

macchiatto

Average gestation for twins is 36w; ideal is 37-38w. You want them to be full-term (36w is still technically pre-term).

With the "mine" and "his" thing, maybe they're going to each take custody of one twin, a la Parent Trap? That is really sad for the babies though. 

Hilarigh

kimarino13:

Your suspicions are right.  That girl is nuts.

lol

agree, that chick's out of her mind. has she been to a doctor?

mlkwmu

Yeah.. .she sounds a little crazy.  I've read average delivery date for twins is 35 weeks.  My MFM doc said that he wouldn't let me go over 38 weeks because the placenta just starts getting old and isn't doing it's job anymore.  My OB just said today anything over 36 weeks is good.