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S/O "How can you tell you are having twins?".....
After I got my BFP (New Year's Day) I had a "sense" that I was having twins due to a couple of things that happened...
1) I had 2 dreams that DH and I were in the hospital and he was trying to weigh this little baby and I was holding another.
2) I was picking up DS#1 from daycare and these twins (b/g) that were in his class at the time starting freaking out that I was not picking them up - the teachers said I looked a lot like their mom, but I have rarely seen either of these kids since as they are in different classrooms now.
3) My SIL said at a dinner one night right after we announced we were pg "I can't believe we will have 2 more little ones this time next Christmas running around" (of course she was referring to the "1" I was expecting and her having luck getting pg, which unfortunately she hasn't had yet, but I am keeping my fingers crossed...) but I told them about the dream and remember saying something like "maybe even 3 more?"
(And of course there is the fact that we used Clomid this cycle so we knew there was a chance, but my mid-cycle u/s revealed only 1 follicle that OB said was "likely too immature" and gave me an Rx for a higher dose for the next cycle)
So I was just curious if any of you had the "mother's intuition" about having twins, or more, before you found out????
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Re: S/O "How can you tell you are having twins?".....
I just *knew* from the second I knew we were finally pregnant. When they saw the first sac I just sort of looked at the technician and said--ok where is the second one?
But we did bravelle and menopur and had 2 failed cycles before we finally got pregnant. So when I was, and we got the blood tests and me, the girl whos hormone levels are always zilch for everything had hormone levels through the roof---I think we all kinda knew.
Its perfect though, because I wanted 2 and DH only wanted to have kids 1ce so we're only doing this once, but I get my two children.
Yeah I sort of had a feeling, but I had just gone through an IUI cycle with 4 mature follicles so honestly I was praying there would only be one or two and not more!
But after I got my 1st beta back I knew it was pretty high so I did have a feeling it was multiples.
I also have a funny story that wasn't really intuition but I think it's pretty cool. At the beginning of the cycle I got pregnant on, my mom got me a St. Gerard medal that she took to her church to have blessed. Well she had never met this priest before, I guess he was just "passing through" or something. So she told him about me and asked him to bless the medal. He said "ok I will, but does your daughter want twins?" and my mom said "yes, actually, she does" (God had laid twins on my heart a few months prior) and he said "ok good because whenever I do this, the couple ends up with twins". I put the medal on my bracelet right away and 16 days later my sweet girls were conceived!
After 2 years, Injects, PCOS diagnosis and 2 IUI's, we were blessed with our beautiful twin girls!
Baby Girl #3!
High five.
You could have knocked me over with a feather when the Dr. told me there were two in there. I was still in denial that I was actually pregnant.
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My DH had me take 2 pg tests. Obv both were pos. and I joked that it better not mean I was having 2 babies! Then I had m/s right away and felt waaay more terrible than my 1st pg. Sister kept saying "you're having twins". I called her mean for wishing that on me, since we were only prepared to have 2 kids total. Then I noticed I was losing weight everywhere else but my belly due to m/s and thought it was just b/c it was 2nd pg. but I was surprised at how fast I seemed to get a little bump.
All the jokes about twins and the signs all made sense at my 9 week u/s when they saw 2 girls! I don't know about any intuition, the news was part shock and then also sort of made sense considering. It took a while for it to sink in and now, even though I only wanted 2 kids total, feel super blessed for my little girls on the way.
This! My 'intuition' told me I was having a boy and I had two girls.
Same here. I would have been less shocked to hear it was kittens.
We had always joked about having twins. Then after the IF and doing an IUI, we knew we had 2 mature follicles, so it was a possibility. When the test showed positive (night before Thanksgiving) we were ecstatic. The next day I asked him to get me seconds on the food and he said "Well, you are eating for 3!" I smacked him...
Fast forward to January 9th when I FINALLY had my first U/S at 9 weeks after having been gone for the holidays... I would have never in my wildest dreams guessed triplets. He said twins, I laughed and said "Okay!" Then he said triplets and I just laughed and asked "Are you kidding me?!" Mothers intuition definitely did not help me there!
I was doing acupuncture treatments as a latch ditch effort to get pregnant on our own before beginning other interventions, and the very first time I went, after they had put all the needles in, I closed me eyes, and I had the most vivid image of two little boys. First, they had their backs turned to me, and as I walked closer, they both turned around and smiled at me. Then it was over. I told my DH about it. I was pregnant two cycles later.
Then, two days before my first ultrasound at 6w6d, I had a dream that there were two (boys) again. I had no other reason to think it was twins, and actually didn't even consider that it really could be.
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BFP #1 09/20/10 Natural m/c 10/05/10
BFP! #2 04/21/11... Beta 16 DPO: 437, 18 DPO:1446 Ultrasound 6w6d TWINS!
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This isn't about me but it is a weird story. My best friend has an aunt that had twins, they are 35 years old. I was talking to her when I met her a few weeks ago and she told me that she had no idea she was having twins until she delivered, which 35 years ago I guess I could believe that. She had an older daughter and like 2 weeks before she delivered the older daughter said " what are we going to name my baby sisters?" and then she said " we will name one Julie and one Jessica." They thought she was just joking around. She ended up having two girls. They named one of them Julie
My dad actually has twins too, my step sisters are fraternal twins. My dad's first wife had no idea she was having twins until she delivered also. That was 30 years ago. I am so glad we have better technology these days! The night she delivered she was 1st told she had one baby and a big tumor. My sister (who was baby
still doesn't like the idea that they thought she was a tumor.
Completely this!
We did injectibles, and after the trigger shot I had (what felt like) cramping on both sides of my belly. I've never been one of those "I'm so in tune with my body" type of person, but I thought that might mean I had ovulated twice. Still, I had fewer mature follies than when we conceived our daughter, so the odds of multiples didn't seem that high. Then my beta was 3-4 times higher than with my 1st pregnancy, but the nurse said "that isn't always a sign of multiples."
Still, between the beta and my 7 week U/S I felt all this cramping, tugging and stretching I didn't feel with my daughter, so in the back of my mind I was thinking "what if it's twins?" Well, I show up for the U/S, the tech is checking everything... "Baby looks great!" and I was a little disappointed that she hadn't seen a 2nd sac. I told her about the cramping and other pains, and she offered to check my ovaries, to make sure they were getting back to normal after being stimulated during the cycle. THAT's when this bubble, as I call it, moved across the screen and she blurted out "There are two!" I was shocked, but at the same time not so shocked, if that makes sense.
I did and I didn't. I had a dream one night that I was having twins and it was so REAL it took me a few hours after I woke up to realize I was actually only pregnant with one (so I thought). Anyways, that dream sort of stuck in my mind so I kept telling DH "wouldn't twins be fun, a boy and a girl, one for each of us", I actually creeped the multiples board, I think it was wishful thinking (you know like all the other lurkers who don't realize how hard and risky twins are). Still at my u/s I was shocked, but not surprised, hard to explain I guess.
No one in my family believed us when we phoned and said it was twins because I kept telling them prior "I think I am having twins", I didn't really mean it, but they expected us to tell them twins as a joke. It took a solid hour of convincing my mom on the phone that we were not playing a joke on her.
I asked the embryologist in the lab before my FET if the embryos could still split. She said that hadn't happened in the 5 years she worked there. I think deep inside, I thought I might have identical twins. Weird.
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
These are some pretty cool stories. I love the one about the tumor and Kristens about the St. Gerard metal.
As for me i struggled long and hard to get these babies and everytime my IVF cycle didnt work or i had a m/c i would say "its b/c im meant to have twins". Well my lucky cycle we transferred 4 embryos on day 3. The doctor said 2 looked great and i have a great shot at twins but, at that point i didnt believe it. When my beta came back double what it was with my son i had a strong feeling it was twins...a boy and a girl. I was right! When we went in for the u/s and the doctor said "lets see how many are in there." then said it was twins, i just said "i knew it and its b/g". We were probably the most stoic couple finding out about it. lol
Then i freaked out a few weeks later!
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Even before I got preg, I joking told hubby that we were gonna have twins. He only wanted 1 more (we already had a DD), and I wanted 2 more. And he was hoping for a boy the 2nd time around. I went to my 1st u/s alone because it was early and just to figure out gestational age. Low and behold, "A" and "B" popped on the screen. I was laughing so hard I was crying, the u/s tech asked if I was ok, and I told her how I'd been teasing about twins. DH and I never do anything simple, and that pregnancy was no different! LOL
I didn't have a clue. I didn't have once ounce of mother's intuition. My husband on the other hand "just knew". He wasn't at all shocked when the doc told us we needed two cribs. He also just knew they were b/g. He got father's intuition
At least one of us had it.
Same here. When the u/s tech said, "There are two," I said, "Two what?" With no family history of twins and no ART, the possibility of having more than one never occurred to me.
I thought there was a chance because I had used Clomid. About 5 days before AF was supposed to show up my 3 yr old nephew told me at dinner "You have a baby in your tummy" and I responded back "No babies in my tummy". I mean how do you explain to a 3 yr old that you have been trying for a baby but no such luck! He then told me this about 5 more times and he was dead serious...Took a pregnancy test 2 days later and it came out positive.
My nephew than started to say that there was two babies (a boy and a girl). I remember telling our Dr this at our 8 wk ultrasound. When the Dr did the ultrasound he states "well it looks like your nephew was wrong there is only one heartbeat". When we told our nephew that there was only one baby he said "One is hiding". He never changed his mind. DH and his family always joked that there was two because Tyler said so! Fast forward to my 21 week ultrasound and guess what? There was two baby boys (I guess he got 2 out of 3 right).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxhJjNN77Y this is my in laws reaction and you can hear my FIL stating how did he know that! It is pretty funny.
This. I was still trying to get used to the fact that I was pregnant. I DID think it was odd that at 12 weeks I wasn't fitting into my regular pants anymore....but I just blamed it on eating carbs which helped with the random waves of nauseau I would get.
I wouldn't say that I 'KNEW' as the idea sounded so ludacris to me at the time...
But I had dreams... or I'd catch myself looking at 'What to expect when you are expecting Twins' Articles and be like... WHY the heck am I reading this!?
In reality I just thought I was losing my mind and didnt know why all these twin thoughts kept popping up... NEVER did it occur to me that it might be some kind of intuition and I could ACTUALLY be expecting twins. We had NO fertility treatments, no family history, nada... So VERY unexpected.
I had a feeling. I know everyone says m/s is not an indication but thats what made me think I was having twins. With my first pg(ended in loss)and with my son I had no m/s. With the twins, I had to eat as soon as I felt hungry or I got sick(whether there was food in my stomach or not).
When I went to the dr at 9wks, he did a dating u/s and we saw 2sacs and hbs. To tell my h how many we were having I got him lunch, 2 cheeseburgers. I got home and he asked how many, as in how many babies. I said look in the bag, he looked and said oh 1, sounding disappointed. I said you better look again since we are having 2. He just kept saying I knew it, I knew it. The m/s tipped him off I guess.