re lost twins

[Guest guest]

> With Freya, I miscarried at nine weeks - it was definitely

> a miscarriage, large heamorrhage with clotting which was tested -

but

> when I was scanned the following day, there was Freya so it seems I

lost her

> twin, which I thought was miraculous,

When my mum was pg with my little sister ( her third baby)she had a

massive loss, was convinced she had lost the baby and was amazed to

discover she was still pg. I never bled in either of pg's 1 and 2 so

when I had a massive bleed - on the beach in Cornwall at 18 weeks with

DS3 I was convinced I was having a miscarriage. The registrar was a

little bemused when I burst into tears when she found a heartbeat, I was

so relieved. I was very sick early on in that pg, far more so than any

of the others so am convinced that it was a lost twin.

Curran

Mum to 4 boys. Co-Chair, MVA, Valley cushion agent, homebirth support

and booking clerk Selby Rural NCT

Region 7 Secretary

[Guest guest]

When I first got to the hospital, they did a blood test for pregnancy and

kept making a big thing about telling me it showed " very strongly " pregnant,

as though the " very strongly " was somehow significant. I thought at the

time they were simply confirming that I was miscarrying rather 'just'

haemorrhaging, but my independent midwife later said they could have been

telling me they suspected a twin pregnancy as apparently you do get very

much higher levels of HCG in multiple pregnancies than singleton.

Certainly, the blue line took mere nano-seconds to show on the home test I

did, but I thought that was because I was quite a long time pregnant, iyswim

(I'd only done the test that morning - what a day that was!)

Anyway, I guess higher levels of HCG *could* make you feel more sick..

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

> When my mum was pg with my little sister ( her third baby)she had a

> massive loss, was convinced she had lost the baby and was amazed to

> discover she was still pg. I never bled in either of pg's 1 and 2 so

> when I had a massive bleed - on the beach in Cornwall at 18 weeks with

> DS3 I was convinced I was having a miscarriage. The registrar was a

> little bemused when I burst into tears when she found a heartbeat, I was

> so relieved. I was very sick early on in that pg, far more so than any

> of the others so am convinced that it was a lost twin.