Doppler for detecting twins

[Guest guest]

I have twins and they are harder to detect until you are farther along,e ven

one is hard to find. they are not very big in there. An ultra sound will

reveal if there are 2 babies in there though and if they see 2 on the ultrasound

then the doc will always try to hear both babies when they listen with the

doppler,.

God Bless,

Robin, NorthEastern, NY

Age- 41

EDD- July 27th, 2004

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

Mommy to:

&

(twin boys 8 years),

Madison, daughter, 5 years and

Wife to Pup 15 years (October 31, 1988)

Gastric Bypass Surgery-

October 18th 2002

Start-378, current- 246(pregnant)

goal 170 after baby

It's a BOY!!!!!

Emerson Roger

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I am having my 9 week visit on next Tuesday, and the Dr. wants to

listen to the heartbeat. Does anyone know if I am carrying twins,

will that be heard? I didn't know if you could hear multiple

heartbeats, or if that can't be determined until a picture u/s is

done.

Thanks,

Stacey~

Open RNY 07/01/02

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EDD 02/24/05

[Guest guest]

Usually, at the very first visit, they will *try* to find a heartbeat.

With a regular office doppler (unless it's an extremly fancy and

expensive one), 9 weeks gestation is hard to find. If they do hear a

HB @ your visit, most often, they won't spend alot of time trying to

find a second one or determine if there are 2. Most often, the twins

aren't discovered til your US.

I had some problems in the beginning so I had vaginal US's at 5, 6 and

8 weeks gestation to start the pg off. No heartbeat seen at week 5,

just the gestational sac. No heartbeat seen at week 6, just the sac

and fetal pole. At week 8, we saw and heard it @ 174 bpm! What a

precious miracle!

I think you just talked me into having another one. lol

Best wishes!

[Guest guest]

We had heard one heartbeat for several appointments and even had an

early ultrasound at 9 weeks and only saw one bb. Thing is that doc

was use to finding the heartbeat in a certain place and would go

straight to that area to get the count and didn't venture to the

other side of my abdomen. Even though he felt I might be measuring

around 2 weeks bigger.

It wasn't until I was 20 weeks along and going through my first Level

II ultrasound that we found out we were expecting twins. After that

I have had an ultrasound every week and he now knows to look for

both, lol.

They'll be here in another week and a half, at the very latest...

YEA!!!!

Toi