Huge Twins

clehorn · March 2014

Anyone else with huge twins? I'm 25 weeks 6 days and my boys are huge. It worries me because I'm have a very small frame. The boys are measuring 2lbs 5oz and 2lbs 4oz (79% and 75%). I know it's good that they're big, but how are they going to fit!

I'm also curious if you did have big twins were they large as they matured once born as well?

jocie2581 · March 2014

At 26 weeks my boys were 2lb 6/2lb 3. They were born at 33w2d weighing 5lb 8oz and 4lb 10oz. I am petit as well. A size 4 pre-pregnancy.

HeavenBlessedMom · March 2014

Somehow it all fits.
I'm 29 wks and the boys are 3#2, 3#4, & 3#6.
Just measured 39 wks for a singleton (fungal). Size 0 pre preg. Don't know how it works, but they find room.

pinkmickey24 · March 2014

At birth baby a was a big twin. He was 7 pounds 13 ounces at birth. I didn't deliver until 37 weeks 5 days. Baby b was exactly two pounds smaller.

TheDairyQueenx3 · March 2014

That's around what mine measured for that point in gestation and were 4 pounds and 4 15 at birth. The ultrasound weights are not always right. They guessed baby a would be 6 pounds at birth but were way off. Those are just estimates.

lynnyrd80 · March 2014

My boy/ boy twins were both measuring about a week ahead at my last ultrasound. That is a good thing with twins! I'm only 5'4", but I know my body will figure out where to put them.

kdarden15 · March 2014

At 30 weeks, mine were measuring in the 97th percentile for singletons. We get another growth scan next week, and I look forward to seeing how they are doing!

carrotcake06 · March 2014

I think I remember my boys being just around 3lbs at 29w. They were born at 34w weighing 5 and 5 8.

24karat · March 2014

Mine consistently measured 2-3wks ahead after the halfway point. They were 6.1 and 6.9 at birth so average size, and I'm also petite...under 5' tall and a size 4 pre-pregnancy.

LegalLadyBug · March 2014

I had an appt on Monday at 27w5d and they were measuring 2lbs 13oz and 2lbs 10oz and I was measuring 40w. No reason for it as far as they can tell, just big and long since both DH and I are tall. DD was 8lbs 5oz at birth.

Labyrinth3000 · March 2014

Each of my girls have been about the same size of a singleton at all my anatomy scans with less than 1% difference in size between the two. I'm now at 30 weeks Mo/Di and my doctor said their growth will probably slow down from now on. At 28 weeks they measured about 2lbs 11oz each.

KatieGummow · March 2014

Just remember: It's a measurement, not a fact. It estimates the weight from stomach and head circumferences, so it cannot actually tell the weight.At 34w mine are measuring 6.5 and 5.12, with 3-4 weeks to go.

shanaynerz · March 2014

Just wanted to say remember ultrasounds can be off by 2 lbs in either direction. DD was supposedly 5 lbs at 33 weeks, but she was born at 39 weeks and 6 lbs 2 oz, so she was obviously not 5 lbs at 33 weeks!

MrsCali_Bride · March 2014

It's been a while so I can't remember the exact estimates but my twins were measuring average and within an ounce or two of each other during every ultrasound. They were born at 37w2d - A (Amelia) was 7lbs 12 oz. and B (Owen) was 6lbs 5 oz. Now at nearly 3 years old, she still outweighs him. As of a week ago she was 35.6lbs and he was 33.1lbs, according to our bathroom scale.

ETA: I'm 5'3" and while I am considered plus size, my body stretched enough to fit them. I was measuring 47 weeks at my appt. just five days prior. If you want to see a pic from 37 weeks exactly, let me know. I don't want to post it and scare you.

Turkygurl · March 2014

I am 25 weeks today and my di/di boys measured today at 2lbs1oz and 1lb 10oz. Both measured ahead of schedule and dr wasn't concerned that they are so different in size.

lsmith0917 · March 2014

My b/g twins were born at 36 wks weighing 6lb 14oz and 6lbs (with fundal height of 47 weeks!!). I was a size 0 prepregnancy and as others have said, somehow they just fit.

2bunnbunns · March 2014

My b/g twins always measured 65% and above each for the growth ultrasounds. I don't remember the weights but they were born at 33 w 5 d and weighed 5 lbs 7 oz and 4 lbs 11 oz. I am 5'5 and was a size 4 pre-pregnancy. My ob said if we made it to my scheduled C-section at 38 w 1 d my bigger twin would have been well over 7 lbs.

LittleLady77 · March 2014

At 25weeks both my babies were in the 95% for growth. I don't remember the actual weights but I remember being very proud about that. The doctors warned me they would probably slow down in growth and they have. At 34 weeks one was 5.5lbs and one was 6.5lbs and I was a size 4 or 6 before pregnancy. It all fits and I can still move around and do things, not very comfortably, but I can. I've been gardening for the last two days. You got this momma.

Angelahelena · March 2014

How was your recovery? I'm scared of getting huge and scared of not getting huge if that makes any sense

bumpuser924057 · March 2014

Mine were born at 37w3d via scheduled csection and they were 7lbs 12oz and 7lbs 2oz. If I'd been allowed to go all the way to the end, I might have made the Guinness book of world records, lol.

RebeccaGJ · March 2014

The book I'm currently reading indicated twins are totally different than singleton pregnancies. She explains that twins mature quicker and tend to gain more weight in the second trimester, and slow down in the third. As opposed to the average singleton, whose lungs might not at all be mature at 35/36 weeks and then put on the bulk of their weight in the latter third trimester. It's Dr Luke's book, When You Are Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads. I'm also enjoying this one: Twins! Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year of Life by Agnew, Klein, Ganon

SockMonkeySam · March 2014

Born at 38w2 day due to emergency gall bladder surgery they were 7lbs 5 oz and 7lbs 9.6 ozs

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