How did you react/feel when you found out you were having multiples?

kaitley44 · April 2011

A little nervous, but insanely happy. at the first U/S DH practically yelled "I knew it" when the Dr. told us it was twins. He was a little in denial, but we were both very happy. We considered it buy one get one free.

tehawryluk · April 2011

shock,

disbelief

sick. I felt sick for the first week.

shock again.

Oh Sh*t.

and then we finally had to come to terms with it since no amount of disbelief was going to change things. It has been 2 months since we found out and we are so excited now... but trying ONE TIME because you arent 100% sure you want to add a fourth child to your family... and then finding out you're having TWINS... Not at all expected...

The only negative feeling I currently have is that I feel it isnt fair to my other children as I wont be able to give them all of the attention I know they need and deserve once I have two newborns to care for.

ardilla · April 2011

We went through IF treatment and had 3, possibly 4, mature follicles, so we knew that there was a decent chance of multiples. My DH had been saying "hi babies" to my belly since we'd found out I was pregnant about two weeks before our first u/s at 6w0d. In a way, we felt almost like we knew ahead of time! The second the image popped up on the u/s screen, we knew for certain.

I was still a bit overwhelmed, and nervous, but so happy!

LightBlue · April 2011

We went in for our first u/s at 12 weeks (trans vaginal). As soon as the tech flipped on the screen DH saw there were two in there and I heard the u/s tech ask him if he was OK. I guess he was pretty pale! I thought it was so rude since I was the pregnant one getting this invasive u/s lol.

It was a long u/s, about 45 minutes, but she kept saying everything looked great and there was just a lot of measurements to take, ect... and she would show me the screen when she was finished.

When she letme sit up and turned the screen around she asked "What do you see?" I told her, "I have no idea." (it was the first u/s I had ever really looked at! ) She then said, "There are two!" After about 5 seconds of shock I started saying "Oh my God" over and over again as I looked back and forth between DH and the tech. I then started laughing and so did DH. It was amazing!

I would say my feelings were shock, excitement, fear and then joy. We are so blessed!

MrsAmyB · April 2011

I have an old rambling post that I wrote soon after I found out on the Seattle board in Dec '09. It summed it up.

Pretty much disbelief, depression, and scared out of my mind.

ougrad1 · April 2011

The dr looked at me and said, " I don't know who you've been praying to but there are two in here."

I looked at my H and said, "Are you okay?" He replied, "You're going to have to give me a minute."

Disbelief, scared. excited all describe my emotions leaving that appointment.

kelfeen · April 2011

My betas were right in line or higher than the average triplets so I had a hunch going in to my u/s but had been warned they arent exactly accurate indicators. I had been to the RE so much I knew right away when I saw those 3 sacs at 6 weeks! I was pretty much just on guard hoping for the best - after 2 losses I have been very worried about losing them! We were very happy and felt blessed! My DH was even more ecstatic than I was, I am more of a worrier (about their health, my health, how we would make the time, the financial part) The next week we saw all 3 heartbeats and I let myself finally believe we were really going to have triplets!!! The next week we learned Baby B's heart stopped beating and we were down to twins. I cried and cried for days and I still feel very sad each time I see that little sac that stopped growing in there next to its thriving siblings.

Now, twins seem so much easier in my brain after I had already been preparing myself for triplets!

shellshavintwins · April 2011

For 8 years my husband had been joking that I was going to have twins. It took me 3 years after we were married to concieve after a diagnosis of stage 4 endometriosis, uterine polyps & bilateral ovarian cysts. I took clomid under the advice of my previous OB not realizing my FSH levels were already high w/o medication. He promised I would not be octomom. I went in for an ovary check to make sure I didn't have ovarian hyperstimulation. I had 1 mature follicle that had ruptured. 4 weeks later I took a pg test that instantly turned dark pink, and wondered if it was twins. At my early U/S ( 5 1/2 weeks) I remember laying on the table praying I wasn't crazy and it was two babies so they would at least have each other if I never got pregnant again. It was twins!!!!!! Only one baby had a heartbeat at the time but I refused to believe baby b was a vanishing twin. I went back at 6 1/2 weeks and both had strong heartbeats. This current pregnancy I "knew" it was twins again and I did not use any clomid this time!!!!! I went into the U/S at 6 1/2 weeks and the tech and I were floored to see two sacs again. I was devastated to realize that one had a heartbeat and one only had a faint yolk sac. A week later it was confirmed I lost baby b to vanishing twin syndrome.

Mrs. Alice · April 2011

SHOCK!

Even though I had a little suspicion based on a couple things, it was still the shock of a lifetime.

I think one of the first things I did was turn to DH and say "See I told you so! I was not crazy!" DH was calling me crazy because of my jokes that I might be having twins because of my early showing and weight gain.

I am still in disbelief at times. I go through a range of emotions sometimes on a daily basis. Anywhere from fear, anxiety, feeling so lucky and blessed, to absolute stress over the entire thing.

JosiePosy · April 2011

My parents had been joking for years that if I had sex I'd have twins (I'm pretty sure it was a means of birth control). We were all shocked! We found out at my first appointment at about 8 weeks. The ultrasound showed what they thought was 2, and I had to wait 4 days for another ultrasound to confirm. Longest 4 days of my life, but deep down I knew that first ultrasound was correct and there were twins in there. DH and I were both frightened and thrilled. We didn't really speak to each other though until we left the clinic. It took awhile to process. Big Smile

benkari · April 2011

Shocked! Even though my beta numbers were high and they prepared me for multiples I had been bleeding for 2 weeks and thought I miscarried.

Nervous! Could I really carry 4 babies?

Thrilled! I was pregnant!

GSwans · April 2011

This is cheesy, but I thought, "I can't believe we get to have twins!" I was just so so grateful...2 years of TTC, and the use of ART, we just felt so lucky.

tmbuchmann · April 2011

My OB was giving me a pap and he didn't let my DH and DS back in the room until I was done, when he was examing me he says, "Your definatley swollen (meaning pregnant)" and asked me if I was sure of my last cycle date. Then he wanted to do the u/s before DH and DS came back. Well I didn't want to look at the screen until DH was in the room, I told the doc, that I wanted to see the baby for the first time with DH. The doctor took FOREVER to say anything after the u/s started and after 5 minutes I finally gave in and looked at the screen, I saw a big line going down the center of it (later I find out it was the membrane) and I remember thinking, "That doesn't look normal" finally the doctor said something, "Well I see something" and I said, "Yeah what is that?" he said "There are two in there" I looked at the nurse standing there and said, "Go get my husband right, now." She ran out of the room and brought back DH and DS, DS was squirming so bad in DH's arms he could barely hold him and I looked at DH and said, "Well he sees something" and DH says, "Just one right?!" and I shook my head and raised up two fingers. DS then got extemely fussy and DH says to him, "Hang on buddy, you don't know how much your life has just changed"

After that we didn't talk for a couple of hours, we just sat there in disbelief, literally couldn't believe, shock is an under-standstatement. dis-belief, flabbergasted, it took me literally months to get excited about having twins. There were so many more worries to think about, DH was worried about finances and I worried about my and their health. We had so many ups and downs with the pregnancy it wasn't until I hit 32-36 weeks that I finally got excited, it was that time that I knew they were healthy and if born would be OK. Then I finally started to relax and get excited.

I still look at them and think, "this is crazy, I have two babies!"

jennie13 · April 2011

I cried. Hard. And they weren't happy tears. I tried to hold it together since our 18 mo daughter was with us, but I was a mess. I started throwing up from m/s that day, so on top of feeling like death from that, I was scared out of my mind. It took a long time to accept and be happy, because just as I got excited about having twins, I was afraid to get attached in case something went wrong.

babya2010 · April 2011

My first clue that it could *possibly* be more than one was the results of my bloodwork, specifically when the nurse said, "Your progesterone level is 40.6, and we consider anything over 20 to be a nice healthy pregnancy." I was thinking, "That's double!!" I had a prior loss so my OB did an early ultrasound to determine viability shortly after I received the results from my bloodwork. At 5w6d my husband and I were in the ultrasound room and the tech was taking (seemingly) forever!! I shot a nervous glance to my husband and his response was a weird half-eyebrow raise as well as a BIG goofy grin. He could see the ultrasound screen but I couldn't. 5 minutes later, seemed more like an eternity, the tech pushed the screen towards me and said, "Ready for the surprise?" I thought to myself, this is it...she's going to say twins! Sure enough! My initial response was, "Are they both in there?" (Yes, that is exactly what I said.) She laughed and assured me that they were 'in there' and zoomed in on each tiny flickering heartbeat. As we left the office that day I asked my husband what the 'look' was for. He said, "I only remember seeing one 'black blob' (gestational sac) last time and this time I could tell there were 2." We laughed and giggled about the news for a week straight. The rest of the pregnancy was incredibly exciting and blissful.

daisybride78 · April 2011

123pcb:
I went in for an early appt at about 8 weeks because I was having a lot of pain in my right side. DH could not go with me, so I was by myself. At the appt, my doc said, I want to do an ultrasound to check everything out. She and I were both thinking something was not right with all the pain I was having.
Here is how it unfolded:
Doctor: "Okay, I am going to look in your uterus now. oh! OH!"
Me: "WHAT? WHAT?"
Doctor: "I see two hearts."
Me: "My baby has two hearts?
Doctor: "No, your baby has a friend."
Me: "What the hell does that mean?"
Doctor: "You are having twins, I'm trying to tell you that you are having twins"
Me: "Actually, that's not possible, it doesn't run in my family and I'm not on fertility treatment."
Doctor flps monitor around and points to the screen and says "I see two babies. Do you see two babies"
I then laughed uncontrollably for a solid hour. She went on to talk a bit about twin pregnancy but I have no idea what she said. At the end of the appt, I was still laughing so hard that she grabbed my knees and said "I need to know you are okay to drive"
I am still laughing at the news!

LOL, @ "my baby has two hearts" Big Smile

daisybride78 · April 2011

I definitely knew that there was a possibility of having twins because we transferred 2 embryos, but at my first u/s @ 5 weeks, there was only one sac and hb, and one little tiny dot that the u/s tech said was probably a blood clot. For the next two weeks, I had gotten used to the idea that there was only one baby. At my 7 week u/s the tech immediately said, "well hello babies!" DH and I were both like, "BABIES!??" And she pointed them both out. And I immediately burst into tears. I was so incredibly happy. After ttc for so long, finding out that I was having twins was the best news I could hear. I remember going back to the waiting room after the u/s and waiting to be called back to see our RE and was sobbing. The receptionist was SO worried and thought that I'd had a miscarriage. DH assured her that I was just happy and crazy hormonal. The best was when I called my best friend and she screamed so loud that she scared her baby!

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