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Twins?
Can anyone help, I'm nearly six weeks pregnant with my second child however I've got quite a large "bump" already, something I didn't get til around 11-12weeks last time. Twins run in both mine and my partners family, does this early swelling indicate twins? Kerry x
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Twins are in our family aswell. but when is the earliest we find out????
J x
I went for an early scan at about 7 wks and a heartbeat was detected. I then put my bloatedness down to putting on weight easily and holding fluid. I then went for my 12 wk scan and was told I was having twins!!! I have loads of people commenting on my bump size, some say I am small (although I think I am massive) and others say I am big. Having an early scan doesnt always work though!!!! xxxx
although the sound of twins is nice and as teenager I always thought it would be nice to have twins. I think my hands will be full juggling my first baby with the general chores let alone having two!
On this post and other posts I have read about people saying that twins run in both sides of the family. Out of interest, I was wondering BabbleBabble and Kerry whether you are refering to both identical and unidentical? xxx
Kerry, try not to worry.I'm sure it will all be fine. If you have any questions, write it down on paper now so you can ask them next week. Like crochet mum says, you are in the best hands. I guess you are just surprised that they started so early. I'm guessing they will be checking you weekly, untill they are happy with it. It could just be an abnormally reading. When i went to the Drs mine was higher than what I would call my average, bearing in mind I been in a rush tog et to teh drs and was a bit stress, all of which would ahve addedd to a higher blood pressure.
You mentioned you probably wouldn't cope with having twins although there are some in both families. Just to say that unidentical twins run in families but not identical twins, due to 2 eggs being released. Therefore if undentical twins are on his side the chances of you having twins is v.low.
the chance of any women ahving identical twins is 1 in 300. Whereas your chance of having non-identical twins varies according to whether they run in your family or not. xxx
Apparently if ur having twins ur morning sickness/general pg symptoms will be a lot worse than normal. Not sure why...but I knew a girl who had twins recently and she had morning sickness up until giving birth at 32 wks! xxx