Most likely a stupid question, but....(about twins)

themildone · May 2015

I'm currently 16 weeks into my first pregnancy. I had an ultrasound at 4.5 weeks and another at exactly 7 weeks (because of ovarian cysts). I've also been to the ER several times because of pretty bad HG, so between that and the 2 OB visits, I have heard the heartbeat 6 times. Each time the heartbeat display on the doppler kept skipping back and forth between 2 numbers (about 10 numbers apart--can't remember the specific heart rate). Now, I can feel the top of my uterus less than half an inch below my belly button, which is higher than everything I'm finding as the average for 16 weeks.

All that being said, twins run pretty heavily in my family, and there's even been a set of triplets (all natural, no IVF or anything). Since the first two u/s were so early, could they have missed a second baby? With how high my uterus is and with how the doppler was skipping between numbers almost every time, I'm wondering if there could possibly be more than one baby. I am, of course, going to ask my OB about it when I see him, but that's not for another 2 weeks and I'm impatient. Anyone have any input?

Two pics of the u/s at 7 weeks:

Ceridwen77 · May 2015

Ultrasounds are so powerful now I find it would be highly, highly unlikely that the tech would miss a twin (especially with 2 ultrasounds). I've only seen my baby's heart rate on a Doppler once, but it jumped around like crazy, about 10bpm difference.

Also remember everyone carries differently, so I wouldn't jump to twins based on that.

themildone · May 2015

Ceridwen77 said:

Also remember everyone carries differently, so I wouldn't jump to twins based on that.

It wasn't just because of how high my uterus is, it's a combination of everything and the fact that multiples are super prevalent in my family. Also, just because I think it would be neat to have twins :]

VexyMommy · May 2015

I've seen two ultrasounds in person. I have no idea what I'm looking at when I look at them except for what my tech tells me.

They'd make a great substitute for a Rorschach test.

ZoeH3 · May 2015

One can hide behind the other making it impossible to tell. I know someone who didn't know until she was 6mo because they found an extra arm.

katiedhunter · May 2015

I know twins runs super heavy on both sides of my family and I'm always terrified for that first ultrasound getting told I'm having twins!! I find it hard to believe they would miss that with two ultrasounds but I guess you never know. Lol

LauraK33 · May 2015

Also having twins. While my 5 week only showed one, two weeks later there were unmistakably two...I think with how powerful the ultrasounds are it'd be hard to miss by that point but who knows!

ash413 · May 2015

At 7 weeks your ultrasound tech would have picked up an another embryo. They specifically look for multiples whether or not they actually tell you.

dogsombrero · May 2015

I am having twins and at 8 weeks it was impossible not to see that there were two. I saw before the tech said anything. The only way having twins running in your family would matter is if they were fraternal which are caused by hyper-ovulation in women (can be genetic or due to environmental factors, identical twins are sporadic. A large fundal height does not indicate twins, I had a large fundal height last pregnancy and I can assure you there was just one fatty lumpkins kiddo in there.

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