OMG I cannot believe it's happened to me..!!,!,

Hi All,

I'm having a moderate freak out - I'm not even sure if I am putting this post in the right place - but here we go....

I have two boys aged 10 and 2.8 and am blessed to be pregnant with lucky last after my first IVF FET was successful. I couldn't have a natural transfer due to threatened OHSS - and got lucky on my first FET. My FET consisted of ONE day 5 blastie. Anyway, today I am 7w+2d so I had my dating scan with my beloved FS who has been my OB for 10 years.

So he finds a "perfect" sac with a "perfect" white blob and heartbeat. I can't see the heartbeat so he switches to a colour thing that lights up the heart as it flashes - and OMG there is TWO. The FS is shocked, I start crying with disbelief - and I say - why does my baby have two hearts - shocked - and he says because your carrying identical twins!

So it seems the day 5 blastie got excited and kept dividing, and now we have two jellybeans instead of one!

I told DH over the phone (I just couldn't wait) and he was thrilled - his biggest concern was for me and my health as we are now dealing with a high risk pregnancy. I am scared! This was notnpart of my plan and I have no idea how I will cope? I didn't breastfeed either of my boys for medical and personal reasons, so ridiculous as it sounds, that's one thing I can get my head around!

Has anyone else experienced this - have any words of wisdom etc? Now the shock is wearing off I'm starting to feel excited and worried something will happen to one or both (go figure).

Any and all thoughts welcome!

Xx

Congrats again hunni, you better change your ticker!!!! Wishing you a happy and healthy and safe reminder of your pg xoxox

:leap: WooHoo!!!! Congrats TTL!!!! Now, that is one determined embie! Or is that two embies??? :lol:

OMG!!! So happy for you!!!

oh wow congratulations hun xoxox

That is going to be such a great story to tell them when they are older!!! Congrats - very excited for you xxx

How exciting! A huge congrats to you and your family!

OMG love only just saw this post! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! What a wonderful suprise, you must be over the moon!

xxx

Yay! Double congratulations!

Woohoo how exciting !!!!!


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Wow!! So exciting congrats I am so happy for you x

wow that is fantastic news!!! i actually do know a womann who had this happen as well.
their one blastie became two blasties completely naturally!

apart from that, i can offer now words of wisdom but wish you mcuh luck!!!
:)

oxox

congratulations! Twins are an incredible blessing. My own twins are non identical so you will have some extra monitoring that I didn't have but in general twins are a deviation of normal and most twin pregnancies end well with two healthy babies :)

With regards to feeding, it's up to you if you choose to try this time to breastfeed and nobody has any right to to judge your decision either way. It is slightly trickier to breastfeed two babies, but I would imagine it is also slightly tricker to bottlefeed two babies. Take some time to let this momentous news sink in, you have heaps of time to think about feeding your babies and remember that you can always ask questions here as there are quite a few twin mums who have breastfed or bottlefed and can help you when the time comes.

Congratulations on your double blessing. I hope you enjoy a healthy, happy pregnancy

Congratulations! I hope everything goes well with your pregnancy. Twins can definitely make things more complicated (both in pregnancy and after) but it sounds like you have a great supportive doctor who you trust to back you up.

Thank you so much everyone for your awesome best wishes. I love my BB friends - and would be lost without your suupport and advice!

Traveller so great to hear from a twin mummy! Thanks for your insight:) im beyond shocked and now getting excited, still scared... Just trying to take one day at a time ( so I don't totally freak out about how I will cope!).

I'm worried my mum is going to be cross. Don't get me wrong is is an amazing manna and loves the boys so much - but I have a pretty demanding career (which I love) and I think she will be worried about how I will cope. She will get her head around it though - and then she will be amazing.

Thank you all again - it's really great to have someone to talk to! Both my best female friends are in their late 30's, both are childless but trying to conceive, although neither want to do IVF - and one of them has dreamed of having identical twins her whole life:( so I don't really feel like I can talk to them yet.

X

Huge news!! How exciting. Congratulations :) :) :)

Congratulations!!

Congratulations, how exciting!


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Woo hoo!
Wow! That's such a cool story! Well done ttl!! xxx
I'm sure your mum will be fine! Shocked like you ... But fine... In the end it's not like you did it in purpose! And what she thinks doesn't really matter any more!!(I find it so hard not to worry bout my mum as well... But I'm getting better at saying... "this is my life and what she thinks doesn't really matter anymore!!"

Good luck! Can't wait to hear how it goes! xxx

Congratulations on your twin pregnancy :)

All the best :)

That's wonderful 3TL!!! Huge congrats! Exciting times ahead :)

Thanks everyone!

My mum took it ok actually she was great. She was obviously shocked, but said she was really happy for us and would help as much as she could.

I'm now freaking out about a 7 seated car and we are going to need to move house! We need to move anyway really with another one on the way - two makes it not negotiable. So these are the things I'm now freaking out about.

I think I am still in shock and I am too scared to tell my boss:) I suspect he will be great and hopefully he will want me to come back - but if he doesn't I will find something else. I won't have been there quite 12 months when the babies are born, but hopefully as I'll only be 8 months short they will extend me unpaid mat leave.

I can't thank you enough for your support again everyone.

X