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Multiples
Maybe Multiples?
I am 7 weeks and 1 day with my first pregnancy and my husband and I are having suspicions that I am having twins but would love to hear other perspectives since I'm new to this. My pregnancy has already been pretty eventful so please bear with me on this post! :
I thought I could be pregnant very early on, almost immediately following conception, since I began bloating and constipation and just felt weird preg wasn't planned. I took an early home preg test 4 days before my missed period and it came back positive with a faint cross line.
The next day which was about 12 dpo I woke up at 2:30am with the most painful cramping/contractions I've ever had. I felt like something was squeezing and ripping apart my organs in my lower abdoman and my RN mom who I happened to be visiting for the week insisted I go to the ER. They did a beta hcg and ultrasound when i told them about the home preg test and the doc said my hcg was very low in the 40s which indicated early pregnancy and they saw nothing on the US so he sent me home with no conclusion on the cramping other than "no blood is a good sign" and told me to come back in about 3 days.
I continued waking up with the cramping for the following 2 nights around the same times 2:30 3:00am, then had an episode during an afternoon nap on the 3rd day which was my first and only midday episode. I went back to the ER that night and saw an actual OB and after hearing my symptoms she concluded it could be gastrointestinal but I need to be followed closely by my doc once I returned home. She ran another beta hcg and good news was my levels had gone up and were mid400s which seem high for 15 dpo but she gave me the wide range for betas talk and sent me on my way with her blessing to start taking Colace and GasX before bed for the cramping.
I didn't think much of the betas at that point since I was more concerned about the awful cramping and bloating 2 pants sizes larger I was experiencing. The following week I returned home and saw an OB at 23 dpo. My beta that morning was 11,600 which was well above the normal scale for 5 weeks pregnant. I asked the OB if that was normal and he just beat around the bush and said it was too early to say and to come back when I return from my vacation I am on my flight home now. Since that visit I have been thinking twins and keep seeing little "signs" and having odd feelings it is twins. We are very anxious to find out! We will go in tomorrow but now that I have a chance to write this book since I have a 5 hour flight I thought I would check with all of you.
By the way, I think I've figured out the cramping and agree it is gastrointestinal so I'm eating differently and take a gas x before bed and I only have a couple episodes a week.
Other symptoms: I began feeling nausea right after arriving to our vacation destination around the 5 week 3 day mark and it's been pretty awful since then with sickness most if the day terrible nausea not vomitting though. I can't go anywhere in the car without the nausea. Still very bloated, still very gassy, constipation not so bad now, and always tired.
I would love to hear others input especially thoughts on multiples.
Thanks!
Also: I am 95 percent certain of my ovulation date considering my period regularity and the hcg progression I've calculated backwards. So I have pretty much ruled out the conceived earlier than I thought theory. I would have had to conceive on the last day of my period when I typically ovulate regularly around day 14.
I thought I could be pregnant very early on, almost immediately following conception, since I began bloating and constipation and just felt weird preg wasn't planned. I took an early home preg test 4 days before my missed period and it came back positive with a faint cross line.
The next day which was about 12 dpo I woke up at 2:30am with the most painful cramping/contractions I've ever had. I felt like something was squeezing and ripping apart my organs in my lower abdoman and my RN mom who I happened to be visiting for the week insisted I go to the ER. They did a beta hcg and ultrasound when i told them about the home preg test and the doc said my hcg was very low in the 40s which indicated early pregnancy and they saw nothing on the US so he sent me home with no conclusion on the cramping other than "no blood is a good sign" and told me to come back in about 3 days.
I continued waking up with the cramping for the following 2 nights around the same times 2:30 3:00am, then had an episode during an afternoon nap on the 3rd day which was my first and only midday episode. I went back to the ER that night and saw an actual OB and after hearing my symptoms she concluded it could be gastrointestinal but I need to be followed closely by my doc once I returned home. She ran another beta hcg and good news was my levels had gone up and were mid400s which seem high for 15 dpo but she gave me the wide range for betas talk and sent me on my way with her blessing to start taking Colace and GasX before bed for the cramping.
I didn't think much of the betas at that point since I was more concerned about the awful cramping and bloating 2 pants sizes larger I was experiencing. The following week I returned home and saw an OB at 23 dpo. My beta that morning was 11,600 which was well above the normal scale for 5 weeks pregnant. I asked the OB if that was normal and he just beat around the bush and said it was too early to say and to come back when I return from my vacation I am on my flight home now. Since that visit I have been thinking twins and keep seeing little "signs" and having odd feelings it is twins. We are very anxious to find out! We will go in tomorrow but now that I have a chance to write this book since I have a 5 hour flight I thought I would check with all of you.
By the way, I think I've figured out the cramping and agree it is gastrointestinal so I'm eating differently and take a gas x before bed and I only have a couple episodes a week.
Other symptoms: I began feeling nausea right after arriving to our vacation destination around the 5 week 3 day mark and it's been pretty awful since then with sickness most if the day terrible nausea not vomitting though. I can't go anywhere in the car without the nausea. Still very bloated, still very gassy, constipation not so bad now, and always tired.
I would love to hear others input especially thoughts on multiples.
Thanks!
Also: I am 95 percent certain of my ovulation date considering my period regularity and the hcg progression I've calculated backwards. So I have pretty much ruled out the conceived earlier than I thought theory. I would have had to conceive on the last day of my period when I typically ovulate regularly around day 14.
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Re: Maybe Multiples?
TTC since May 2006. After 3 failed Clomid cycles, 2 failed Injectibles/IUIs, 2 failed IVFs and 1 failed FET, we moved on to adoption!
Last ditch FET resulted in BFP, and identical twin girls!
congrats, but you need an ultrasound to know. I have two healthy big boys still baking... I had lower betas, the pee test didn't register til after my missed period, I had NO symptoms until about 10 weeks (and then it was just fatigue) this puts me pretty much opposite of you...
GL and happy and healthy 9 months, I can't wait to hear after the ultrasound
Peanut Butter and Jelly!
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I will post an update after my doc visit Thanks again for your responses!
in that case: your pregnancy, as described, totally opposite from mine
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TTC #1 since 7/2011
ME: 37 DH: 38
SA-12/28/11-normal
HSG-1/16/12-possible blocked left tube
BFP#1---CP 7/9/12
Hysteroscopy-8/9/12-blocked left tube for sure, proceeding with IUI#1
IUI#1 (Gonal-F + trigger)=BFP#2 m/c @ 19w1d D&E 1/23/13
IUI #2 (Gonal F + trigger)=BFP#3 EDD 1/6/14 TWINS!!!
Identical girls born 11/17/13
BFP#4 EDD 8/27/15 MMC at 7w6d
BFP#5 m/c at 6w
BFP#6 EDD 10/5/16 Going Strong! It's a Girl!
You'll get a mixed response given every pregnancy is so different. Multiples or not, you'll find lots of women who are experiencing part or all of what you're going through...especially since there's no difference in symptoms in a multiple pregnancy until 2nd or 3rd trimester, if at all. Reassurance wise, your symptoms sound like a perfectly normal early pregnancy.
Nothing is wrong with having strong inclinations. Its part of being a woman. I do hope, though, that you won't be disappointed if your instincts are wrong and you have a singleton. A lot of the PPs are trying to prepare you for that answer, especially since you don't have a prior pregnancy to compare this one with. When is your next OB appointment?
Abigail Taylor 09.18.2008