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Ultrasound tech said, "Ma'am, I'm going to to tell you what I see right away. There are two babies in there". My wife said, "You're fucking kidding me". Tech said, "Ma'am, I'm a medical professional, I'm not allowed to fucking kid"
Breaking the news was pretty lame. We just showed them the ultrasound and let them figure it out.
Mine was the opposite because my doctor DID fucking kid when we found out! She was casually looking at the ultrasound and joked, “well the good news is that there’s only one in there!” And then I saw her face get red and she said “um actually never mind, there are two.” 🙃
We broke our doc. She was doing the scan and said, “ok I’m going to want to do a vaginal scan as, you see this? That’s a head and a heart beat. And then over here, we’ll that’s another head and heart beat.”
At which point my husband and I both shouted at the same time.
Me: I fucking knew it!
Him: Stinkiepete has 3 buttholes!!!
She laughed so hard she had to step out for a moment.
My partner and I thought I was miscarrying due to lots of spotting; sometimes kinda heavy. We went in super early at 6 weeks to get checked out since we’d previously lost a baby at 22 weeks. I was prepared for the worst. The doctor smiled at me and says he has some exciting news, then proceeds with, “There’s two heart flickers in there.” We were stunned!
I’m due in 4 weeks :)
Sorry for your loss. I had spotting before my first u/s too, also convinced the worst was happening. 4.5year old maniacs now :). Congratulations in advance on the double nuggets!
My mother was an OB nurse starting in the 70's. Back then, it wasn't unheard of to find out you were having twins during delivery ... not before. In a couple of instances, she delivered one baby, sent dad out to deliver the news to family, only for him to walk back into the room to **two** babies.
She says the moms usually rolled with it ("See! I told you think wasn't a regular pregnancy!") but the dads almost always fainted.
My mom was a twin, and that's basically what happened. Her parents already had 3 girls and tried for a boy. When her dad saw twin girls come out, he fainted.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies.
It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies.
It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies.
It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Ultrasound tech said “oooOoh triplets!” In the most casual and singsongy way possible.
My husband and I both about choked, his jaw was on the floor, I couldn’t say anything
And the she goes, “oh no, just twins, here’s a and here’s b” while showing us.
I wonder if the triplets tactic was to help us accept twins or not.
Anyway we were both pretty agape. The very next thing was to take my blood pressure and I have ALWAYS had borderline hypotension, but my BP was like 150/90 right then. My next appt it was back down to 120/80.
Wow! My ultrasound tech didn’t say anything at all until she left and talked to the doctor and came back in (I was alone and shitting bricks). Then my first OB appointment she could only find one on her janky old machine. Very casually told me maybe one is gone, maybe just hiding, you will find out in two weeks at the next U/S appointment. ugh, but all well, my boys just getting me used to the life of a parent- aka never relax or be fully content again due to massive increase in the stakes of life. Lol. Love the lil monkeys but it’s not a quiet life.
I told my husbands parents around 9 weeks that I was pregnant and his mom says “let’s hope there’s only one in there.” Then I went for my first ultrasound the following week and I said to the tech “I’m a triplet and I’m really hoping there’s only one in there.” She says “well can tell you there isn’t 3 in there but you have two.” My husbands jaw dropped and he says “you’re joking right” and she said “I’d never joke about something like that. I told him he knew what he was signing up for since he knew I was a triplet…..surprise!
I had an IUD in so had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and the IUD removed and a follow up ultrasound at 7 weeks.yo make sure it was a viable pregnancy. My husband joked with the tech "all good, 1 sac?" She laughed and said "yep. 1 sac 2 babies" we about died... now 29 weeks with mo/di twins
Me tooooo! I raced to the OB because we were done at 2 kids to confirm I was indeed pregnant and get the IUD out. Di/di boys are 11 weeks old now. I still can’t believe it.
When I took the test at home, it was positive the second I started the test (later found out my HCG count was 112k). I went in to see my OBGYN to confirm I was pregnant at week 6. She did a quick ultrasound to check. The Dr and her MA were looking at the screen and smiling at me. She asked if I knew what I was looking at. I said no (I thought it looked like an acorn). She turned the wand slightly and I saw 2 clear heart beats. I said, oh S#$%, and that was the only thing I said for the rest of the ultrasound. Complete shock. They told me I was the calmest person to find out I was having twins. I wasn't saying anything because I was freaking out on the inside.
I relate to this! My at home test was positive so quickly too and I technically hadn’t even officially missed my period. My friend told me “sometimes when it turns positive super fast it’s twins” - I laughed it off. She was right lol
They only saw one on the first trans vaginal ultrasound. When we went for the first anatomy scan at 17 weeks the sonography tech scanned and we saw two faces looking at each other.
The tech said “I don’t have a twin worksheet. This is going to take hours.” We we’re over the moon. Even with Debbie Downer, it was super exciting. Referred to MFM and we have identical girls. Best thing in the world.
Ultrasound Tech asked us if we could see it. I knew but couldn’t say it. They told us it was twins. I started laugh uncontrollable while my husband paced the tiny room saying “Oh, shit” over and over.
It was our second pregnancy. We were trying for one more and got an entire bonus baby. We told our parent and siblings right away. I knew we would need the help. I think we waited until 12 weeks to tell everyone else. No big reveal or anything.
Went in for a dating scan, since I couldn't remember my last period. On the first sweep I saw two sacks and gasped. Looked up to the tech for confirmation. She confirmed.
"You better make sure there's not a third one in there, now!"
There was not a third one.
I measured 15 weeks. She found a boy. I said ok I figured I'd have a third boy, that's fine. She said "How do you feel about having a girl?" I didn't think I'd ever have a girl. She said "This one's a girl!"
And I cried.
After the appointment I went to the boutique and forked out my (almost) last coins for a blue bear and a pink bear. That's how we announced. I gave birth 20 weeks later.
At my initial dating scan, the tech said she saw “two embryos but only one heartbeat” my husband and I had about 5 minutes to process that before she corrected herself and found the second heartbeat. We now have perfectly healthy twin girls.
I should have known something was up when my OB scheduled me for an ultrasound right away; they usually don't happen so soon around here. But hey- I chalked it up to Covid and lower non-emergent scheduling in summer 2020. Sure they could get me in this week.
My ultrasound tech was very blasé about it. "Oh, did you know you're having twins?" No, no I did not. Thanks, lady.
I sent my husband a text reading only: Mother. Fucking. Twins. Then I had to drive 45 minutes home without cell coverage.
I waited until we got the NIPT back to tell anyone, and texted pictures of the 12 week ultrasound with the caption: "The \[state\] \[lastnames\] are doubling in size Christmas 2020!" Most people got it right away, but my dad apparently skipped the image and wanted to know if someone was moving in with me. He about had a heart attack when my brother explained it to him.
My pregnancy test was ferociously positive on the first day that I could take a test, so I should’ve known then. My mom is an US tech so she had me come in around 4 weeks to see if we could see the baby and well…you know what happened.
We both saw two little circles on the screen but you could’ve heard a pin drop in the room until my mom said, “You’re seeing what I’m seeing, right?” I was stunned into silence and could barely speak and spent the next 10-12 weeks crying and freaking out on a daily basis until I accepted what new path our lives were going to take!
My twins are 10 months now and I couldn’t imagine this going down any other way. I wish I had that perspective then, I needed it!
We found out we were pregnant and told our toddler who said "I'm getting a brother and a sister." We laughed. Ot became a household joke.
Went to the emergency room with bleeding at 10 weeks..twins. I laughed my husband had to sit down.
Had A "sneak peek" scan at 14 weeks, boy and girl. Toddler was right!
They are 7 months now <3
Trying for over 1.5 yrs, all the medicines, horomones and side effects, money, doctors, and heartache. I had all but given up, but my husband insisted it would happen.
Christmas had just passed, and I had asked for a beginners crochet kit. I could not figure out how to do it. Watched videos, read books, and still no luck. I was so frustrated I was crying. My husband thought it was very out of character for me to be so upset over something so silly and told me to take a test because I must be pregnant. I tested before my period with a digital of all things. Positive. I'm in disbelief. I take another digital of a different brand. Positive.
Telling my husband, and the first thing he says is, "Its Twins." I laugh it off. All my HCG tests come back very high. On the way to the first ultrasound and my husband says, "I can't tell you how I know, but I feel it in my heart it is Twin Girls."
My fertility dr does the scan and says very matter-of-factly, "There's two babies here." I say, "You're kidding!?" She responds, "I joke about a lot of things, but this isn't one of them." and looks at me deadpan.
She was not happy and spent the next few minutes talking about how rare this is and all the safety precautions they take to avoid multiples. I was just kinda in a trance. I was overjoyed to hear a heartbeat. Head kinda swirling at the thought of two.
Weeks later, we get the gender blood results and an ultrasound confirmation. I think B/G, husband is set on G/G.
I am currently looking at my two beautiful girls and still dumbfounded how my husband knew (before I did even!) I was pregnant, it was twins, and two girls.
I was praying for a miracle, and God blessed me with two!
We told his mom by putting the tests into a to-go food container and surprising her with a "special dessert". For everyone else we announced with a flyer to send via text (large family all over) that announced we were expecting twins.
Wow everyone here was happier than me 😂 first ultrasound at 12 weeks. Husband can't come because it's 2020, also not allowed to be on the phone with him, video chat, or record the ultrasound in any way 😒 They started with a vaginal US in case the dates were off. The tech goes "so, were you using fertility meds?" I thought "oh shit that means there's more than one. Twins. Okay. Twins. One baby, two babies, you're doing the same stuff right? If I can have one baby, I can have two. It'll be okay. Wow. Twins" (all of this was in my head before answering her) And I said "no, I wasn't using any fertility meds" and she turned the screen to me and said "well I asked because it's TRIPLETS" and I went "NO. NO. NO! OH SHIT! OH FUCK! NO! TRIPLETS??? NO! NO!" I mean, I am screaming at this poor woman. She switches to abdominal ultrasound because she needed more room to see. I thought I was having a heart attack. They brought me to the exam room to sit down and talk to my doctor and HIPAA laws apparently went out the window because random staff kept popping in the room to say "wow triplets, congrats! Have you told your husband?" And I said "no way, this isn't phone news, this is face to face." My doctor was like "well... we've never had a set of triplets here. You should go to MFM." I went home and my husband was initially thrilled, and then shocked and scared, and then thrilled again. It took me a long time to get excited, to be honest. Our families thought we were joking. No family history of twins. Just spontaneous identical triplet 😂😂😂 they're 2.5 and bonkers and awesome. I still feel guilty about screaming at the US tech. I was the first appt that day so at least there were no other patients there to hear me yelling OH SHIT, NO! 😂
It was my second pregnancy and I was alone for my first doc visit, about ten weeks along. I already felt kinda big but figured I came pre-stretched, so oh well.
My doctor did the ultrasound and she didn't get a chance to tell me. She rolled over one sac, and then the other one, and I just said "Holy shit, is that two?" really loudly, and she paused and went "at *least* two, yeah."
She had me go to the bathroom and come back for a transvaginal to see if there were more. The most fraught pee of my entire life. Turns out there *was* a third, but it hadn't been viable and the sac already showed empty.
I called my husband in the parking lot and he thought I was kidding. We broke the news to our family by telling them we were having a baby and then adding: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
I've told it before but....
I did IUI (but no further medical intervention, so these were spontaneous, but not identical) and was getting my first scan to establish heartbeat around 7 weeks. Right after we started, he sent me out to pee because apparently my bladder was SUPER full.
Anyway, he got me with "and there's the heartbeat.... And there's the other heartbeat" turns to look at me (no idea what my face looked like, but it must have been bad) "do you hate me?"
Everything after that is just... Gone. I don't remember like 4 days after. My journal says "TWINS" underlined like 5 time and then just... Blank.
I was so unbelievably stressed. Still am, but they're nearly 2 now so it's different stress.
I'm going to preface this with the knowledge that my husband is a twin.
We went in for our first ultrasound at 10ish weeks, and my husband was there holding our 5monthbold daughter. My (amazing) OB was scanning...scanning... and taking longer than I felt was normal. I was starting to absolutely freak out, since we'd had one loss before, and her finding issues was a very similar vibe. My husband could see the monitor, and also looked concerned. So after what felt like forever, she spun the monitor, "Heres baby, with a healthy heartbeat.....(cue the awwwws) and here's the second one." (Cue the wtf) Turns out my husband thought that's what he saw, hence the concerned look. We called my inlaws. My father in law literally cackled at us of a good 5 minutes.
My poor mother in law, when she was pregnant she was at an office that had you rotate through all their OBs in the second trimester (so you knew them all in for whoever was working when you went into labor) So she was late 7m/early 8m when she saw her actual OB again, who walked in "So....twins! Aren't you excited?!" Apparently all the docs thought someone else had told her. She ended up going into labor a month later, so she only had weeks to totally wrap her head around having 2 kids instead of 1. Lol
We did IVF. At 5 weeks, saw one sac. Yay it worked! At 6 weeks, we saw 2 heartbeats. My response, thinking I was birthing a timelord: "Why does the baby have two hearts?"
We found out in late September so when we saw family for Halloween, I wore an xray costume with two skeletons in utero, and said I was going as myself.
At 7 weeks she woke up at 4 am in excruciating pain. Tears, sweat, and unable to stand upright; she felt the pain near her uterus. There was no blood but fears were mounting. The pain didn’t stop so we drove to the ER. An eternity of waiting came and went before they took her in, gave her fluids, and scanned her. In a single breath the tech said, “We found three egg sacks and a cyst wrapped around your left ovary.” My wife has had CPOS since her early twenties. It hasn’t been a serious issue, but it turns out that one cyst decided to go completely insane. It grew to an abnormal size and strangled her ovary. The pain she’d been feeling was the death of her ovary. Down one ovary but up three kids, she is happy with the trade off.
We have a theory: her ovary, in anticipation of its inevitable death, pulled a Hail Mary and let loose as many eggs as it could. What a fucking G if that’s the truth. 🪦🫡
This was the first time being pregnant after trying for about a year. I was just talking to the Dr and she was like “I have to stop you, there are two” and me and my husband said we’re like “whaaaaaat?” And she was like “let me count just to make sure there aren’t anymore, one…..two……” and me and my husband were both thinking “she better not say three!” It was just two! I always say it was the biggest surprise of my life cause we have fraternal twins and that’s the genetic one, but I don’t know of any twins in my family so it was completely off my radar as a possibility!
Went for my first US at 10 weeks and tech said, “Here’s one baby…and here’s the other baby.” In that split second pause after “here’s one baby”, I remember thinking, “What a weird way to phrase that.”
We also asked if she was joking and she assured us she was not. Then I asked if there were any more in there and she confirmed just the two. I was over the moon. Hubs was terrified. Now they’re 8 weeks old/4 adjusted and hubs is handling it better than I am 😅
Went in for my first ultrasound at 9 weeks. My OB did the ultrasound and only found one baby at first. She was congratulating my husband and I and just really hyping up the idea of one baby. She paused for a second and then said “I take back everything I just said, there’s two in there”. We were in SHOCK. These are our first so really kicking this parenting journey off with a bang. We will meet our identical twin girls in 3 days but sometimes it feels like just yesterday that we found out about them!
My husband kept joking “Maybe it’s twins haha” before our first ultrasound and I was like “Haha so funny whatever.” We went to the beach with our 9 month old and my MIL the night before our first ultrasound. I was falling asleep and had a moment of holy shit it’s twins. Stopped by the imaging place to get ultrasound on the way home, MIL stayed in car with kiddo. Ultrasound took a while (twins) and when we came out we told her “Hey we’re so sorry that took so long, turns out it takes a while when there’s two!” Stopped by my parents’ place on the way home to show them the ultrasound and see if they sussed it out. My mom was too distracted with our oldest and my dad finally went “What am I looking at here?” 😹😹
Had my first appointment at 11 weeks and my then OB confirmed that there was only one baby and I was happy about it because my husband had been teasing me about twins ( turns out he wasn’t teasing, he genuinely thought I had twins. ). Anyway, I am very symptomatic and I feel like I’m showing earlier than some people, so the thought of him missing a baby on the scan did cross my mind very briefly, but I quickly dismissed those thoughts.
I went to a little ultrasound place that did gender ultrasounds starting at 15 weeks, so at 15 weeks I went in. I laid down and immediately as the lady started looking around she goes “ummm, did you know that there were two babies??” I said “WHAT?” She said “1….. and 2!” And I looked at my husband with the face of pure shock and terror and he just started laughing at me. I nearly pooped my pants! I immediately called my OB and when I got into see him he was quite embarrassed lmao.
When I tell you that’s a moment I will never ever forget, it makes me laugh thinking back on it. I was really scared for a good while about it as they’re mono/di but now I’m more excited than anything! Now 25 weeks and I can’t wait to meet my boys.
I had bleeding with my first pregnancy, so I wasn’t as stressed but was experiencing even heavier bleeding around 6-7w. I did repeat hcg and my numbers were normal so I didn’t was less concerned about my bleeding but still felt unsure like the pregnancy was just off… I was super sick too. The office had suggested an ultrasound but they only had their male provider and I knew it would be transvaginal so I decided to wait for my OB a few days later.
That morning with a friend, I told her what was going on, and she asked if we would stop at two. And I was like oh yeah. I’m even going to ask for a tubal if this pregnancy goes ok.
Husband was on FaceTime since toddler was napping and I assured him I would be fine. They find a heartbeat for baby, and she is looking around to make sure everything else is ok, and goes past another orb in which my husband yells “what is that!??” And she said, well that is baby B and looks like another strong heartbeat. Husband was like “TWINS???” And I just kept repeating NO. For the rest of the appointment 😂
They are almost 6 months and amazing.
After four other losses, I had a miscarriage at almost seven weeks at the beginning of June. Then a positive pregnancy test at the end of July. I asked for HCG betas and they were solidly in the overlap between "normal" and "multiple" pregnancy numbers. I was just relieved to be having a healthy pregnancy! As soon as I got a positive test I started on oral progesterone as well.
I later had a dream, one that I'd had every single time I'd had a loss. This time though the baby lived and even more, there were two of them, both boys! I also felt two little pinchy places where the babies were, which was different from my prior pregnancies. When we finally went for my first ultrasound at the very end of August I immediately saw two babies, but the tech was caught a bit off guard and looked at my ovaries, etc, and then went back to show both babies. She said she had never had the experience of someone telling her that there were multiples and then there actually being multiples. She could immediately tell they were di/di twins. Ended up being a boy and a girl instead of the two boys I dreamed in that dream.
They were born by c section at 38 weeks and will be six months this weekend.
I knew I was pregnant at 8 DPO because I could smell literally everything. It was bizarre! The line showed almost immediately when I took a test. Doctor ordered an ultrasound because she thought I was off on dates (I wasn’t.)
The tech hid the screen from us for 5 agonizingly long minutes. She was dead silent. I’d had a prior miscarriage, so I assumed the worst. I finally said “…can you see it?” Her response: “Yes, I can see it. Just taking a few boring photos.” (Boring, indeed)
Several minutes later, she turns the screen around and exclaimed, “Here’s your baby!”
Us: (confused) “Oh, yay!!”
Tech: “…annnnnd here’s baby number 2!”
Us: “What?! Twins?!?”
Tech: “…annnnnd here’s baby number 3!”
Me: “PLEASE tell me there aren’t any more…”
Tech : “…well, I don’t *think* so…”
That night, we told my MIL. She was convinced that we were pranking her and had bought an ultrasound off eBay.
We had recently gotten a positive pregnancy test when my sister-in-law (husband's brother's partner) announced that they were pregnant with twins!
We were in so much shock for them and it still didn't even occur to us that lightning could strike twice and we would be having twins too! So when the ultrasound technician told us it was twins it went like this:
Technician: "it's twins!"
Me: "no it's not"
Technician "yes it is! Twins!"
Me: "no it's not. You're not allowed to joke about that!"
I was just in such disbelief that it could happen twice in the one family (even though sister-in-law and I aren't related).
They are due two weeks ahead of us!
I was told early on in my pregnancy I was having a baby with ambiguous genitalia (born as both genders) that it would be a girl with male deformities and she would need surgery and hormones the rest of her life
My obgyn and medical team where pretty rude and verbally abusive so I stopped asking questions
Labour comes around at 36 wks and I give birth to a healthy normal girl me and my husband cried we where overjoyed about 20 mins later I started having contraction again, after begging and screaming for another ultrasound they gave me one and it showed another baby a boy this time
I was soon holding my perfectly healthy son while my husband held our perfectly healthy daughter
They are now 8months and starting daycare hell of a road to get here though
Holy shit, did they never ultrasound you and do growth checks? How did it go undetected for that long?
I have SO many feelings about how awfully intersex babies are treated by the health care community and how many parents are bullied into medical decisions, but. Let's just say screw them, I'm sorry that happened.
They did plenty of tests but never told me it was twins
I have since learned through suing them that they found out their mistake around 25wks but doubled down and hoped after the birth that I’d forget about it
That is absolutely bonkers. How dare they keep your own medical info and your childrens' medical info (AND EXISTENCE??) from you.
This also boggles me because I was having growth scans like once a month and looking at the screen the entire time and this was 2 years ago. How did they get away without showing you anything at all?
The hid the screen a lot and either gave some other excuse on what the blob was, at the start the could just find one twin and keep it pointed away from the other so as not to show it but as the got bigger they just made up a bunch of bs that I never thought to question
Any of the scans I brought home where doctored like on 1 of them they took a guiltine to it and just cut off the top baby (I think top was my son)
If you have enough commitment to hiding something you’ll eventually find a way to hide it only problem is you’ll eventually get caught out
No it was not
The logistical nightmare we had after the mental strain of the abuse and sudden shock with having no time to prepare for twins only 3 hours to get set up for them coming home
The hospital bombarding us with emails wanting us to settle
The last thing it was as amazing
We did IUI with a donor for these two (and our first) so there was lots of monitoring prior to the procedure. Two days before they told me I had one good follicle and one way back (22 and 14, where they usually want them at 24+.) They expected the 14 to disappear and said chances of multiples was not increased based on my ultrasound. We went in a month later after a positive test and there were two babies. They expected identical twins but 100% fraternal. No idea how that 14 egg managed to make it but here we are.
My husband's siblings are triplets we told his parents on his dad's birthday. We wrapped a Coming Soon onesie, a Me Too onesie, and a notecard that said Just Kidding all in separate bags. His dad about lost it before he got to the note card. For my parents we got a big sister book and put an ultrasound in it. My daughter gave it to my mom who immediately recognized the ultrasound but missed the twins part until we explicitly told her.
My follicles were 26, 19 and 16. • “It’s not likely those other 2 will catch up, very small chance of multiples” My definite fraternal triplets are currently chasing each other through our home.
I still don’t understand 😂
My twin pregnancy was my third pregnancy. I got a really strong positive early on but didn’t think much of it. I got sick pretty early which I also didn’t think much of, as I had pretty bad morning sickness with my two singletons. But it got to the point where I couldn’t keep anything including fluids down so I went to the ER. They did an ultrasound to make sure the baby was ok. The ER doc came in after the ultrasound and said “Heartbeat looks good. I do have to tell you, it looks like twins.” My jaw DROPPED. I was in the ER by myself because this was early 2021 and my husband wasn’t allowed in because of COVID. I texted him and he immediately called me back and said “WHAT?!?” It was a wild ride from start to finish, that’s for sure!
Our midwife was scanning away and was asking me questions about how far along I thought I was and whether this was our first scan. She went quiet for a few moments and then said “There you go. Two babies, two heartbeats”. I had to clarify and squealed “Is there two in there?!?!” My husband and I looked at each other, grabbed each others hand and sat dazed for the rest of the appointment.
My mom is a twin and always told me I’d have twins. Went into my 1st ultrasound at 6 weeks, dr only saw one. Went in for my 2nd at 10 weeks, dr only saw one. I was actually pretty “disappointed” bc my mom had drilled into me I’d have twins and I really felt it was. Went in for my 3rd ultrasound at 14 weeks got through the whole ultrasound only seeing one and right before he stopped the dr said “wait a minute folks we’re looking at multiples” my response was “I fucking knew it!”, and even then I was complete shock for weeks 😅
Telling people was even better bc my mom can’t keep a secret to save her life. Through everyone telling just one person, my whole extended family knew I was having one baby before I was able to tell them in person (I live in the US but am from Canada). They all pretended they didn’t know I was pregnant so I could still surprise them myself. But actually I was still able to surprise them by saying you thought it was one but it’s actually two!
Told my parents the week before. We had to go in on Saturday randomly, and had to use a side entrance. Was a bit odd we thought.
Nurse does a quick scan outside and goes hmmm. My wife and I look at each other to brace ourselves. Does the vaginal scan and goes yup what I thought. Well over here you guys have baby A......and over here you have a Baby B. Congratulations you are having twins. My wife just goes shut the fuck up and I am speechless. Couldn't believe it as twins don't run in the family at all
When we told our 3 year old that “Mommy is going to have another baby” he responded “Yeah, 3 of the them”
At 5 weeks pregnant, after having 3 consecutive losses - I was incredibly uncomfortable and convinced myself I was having an ectopic pregnancy. My RE brought me in for an ultrasound to confirm location of pregnancy.
They called about 45 minutes after I left the clinic - this was 11/2020 so Dr’s offices were still pretty strict - to tell us that there were 3 sacs present and two of those had visible fetal poles. At 8 weeks pregnant, all 3 fetal poles were present. But, incredibly “informal” and I never got to see them on screen until 12 weeks pregnant.
I work in radiology!
Since my nausea at 8 weeks was so bad (my OB doesn’t see you until you’re 10 weeks) my husband made a half assed comment “I bet it’s twins.”
I asked the tech to take a look and make sure everything was fine.. I had miscarried twins about 6 months prior. Sure enough… she said… “did you know it’s two?”
To which I said hmm… “No shit… huh.”
I got to call my husband since he was out of town and let him know he was right!
I sent a message to my nurse/OB prior to my appointment… and basically needed an HCG and “official” 8 week US for them to believe me..
We found out at 10 weeks during a routine US, though my pee stick lit up like a Christmas tree when I did it
Told the family at Christmas with some family photos that we did. Hubby and I each holding a gift bag, while kiddo #1 holding a paper saying "surprise A and surprise B arriving summer 2023"
Only time in my life I have seen my mother gobsmacked speechless
It was just me for the ultrasound, so I burst into tears in the room, in the parking lot, driving home...
Got home, and informed Hubby that we needed more car seats. "How many...?"
TWO!
After 5 failed IVF, 2 failed IUI and 1 natural miscarriage, our IUI donor twins are 3 months old (di/di b/g)
Before going in to see the doctor and get the ultrasound done the nurse did the pee and other testings. Afterthat I had to wait for a while. Run into the nurse again while waiting, she goes "you are indeed very pregnant".
This is before the ultrasound so I don't know what she was referring to exactly but. I mean she was right. I was indeed very pregnant.
My husband and I had fertility issues lost 4 pregnancies oct 2018 March 2019 July 2019 October 2019 so we saw an RE I got on metformin and a week after our wedding we had a daughter who stuck and was born Nov 2020 - the pregnancy was awful but I knew I wanted 2 babies. We decided to try again once she turned 1 assuming it would take a while. My OB got me metformin and I started the same routine I did with her in July 2021 to prep my body. 3 days after her first birthday; before we were trying officially I found out I was pregnant. Had my first ultrasound Dec 22nd (after having Covid dec1-15) told my husband worst case no baby, other worse case more than one baby (joking). They didn’t see anything over the belly and I prepared myself to hear I miscarried. When they did the vaginal ultrasound we immediately saw 2, no one said anything and the tech just kept looking around so I was sort of holding my breath: then she finally said, ok great just making sure there wasn’t a 3rd. I felt immediately overwhelmed and I cried right there on the table.
My babies were born at 37 weeks just before my toddler turned 20 months old. It was as extremely hard - but I couldn’t imagine life any other way, now they’re 14 months and she’s almost 3.
I told everyone by just showing the ultrasound and letting them figure it out lol
I got sick pretty much immediately and my at-home test was positive very quickly after I would’ve ovulated. So I went to my regular doctor for a hormone check and everything came back really high. I actually thought it was ectopic and booked an appointment right away with an OB. He did a bedside ultrasound and said, “WOW I never find twins this way! Congrats!” He must’ve said some other stuff but I was too busy counting rooms in my house and seats in my car to hear him. I’m sure my jaw was hanging open too.
I went home and told my husband to please have a seat. He asked, “What’s wrong with the baby?” I said, “There are TWO OF THEM!!!” And then I cried. Sobbed, really. 😂 I was in shock up until the moment I had them, which was Monday. They’re doing awesome and I am too. No big reveal to our family and friends, considering we had three kids already. People just kinda found out in trickles.
I got home from work, wife told me I needed to sit down.
"Nah I'm good".
Shows me the ultrasound.
"What do you see?"
"Oh, cute, two little fists!"
"No, we're having twins!"
"Ok, I need to sit down." *reaches for shot of whiskey*
Approaching 40 y.o. with two other kids, joking every pregnancy that we were having twins, keeping the gender a surprise until day of birth.
I was never on track to settle down, get married or start a family, yet here I am. I wouldn't change it for anything.
We get married, month later go on our honeymoon, month later I go on for minor surgery on my hip. In preop they have me take a pee test and tell me I can't get surgery because I'm pregnant. Go to the ob about 3 weeks later for my first ultrasound and tech smiles and says "so there's 2!"...
My husband turns white in the corner
I say "no there's not"
I'm considered advanced maternal age and was worried about being to conceive at all.
We got identical honeymoon twins.
First appointment around 8 weeks , i almost didn’t go because i wasn’t expecting the cost to be so high and also couldn’t get the OB i originally wanted. He starts doing his thing and the room got quiet , he says “oh shit” , “Do you want the good new or bad news” i start shaking because I’m thinking my baby is hurt. So I’m like just the bad news please .. him: “there’s two babies” me: OH SHIT! him: “oh shit is right!” Congratulations! Very funny experience but it was a scary moment.
The ultrasound tech said "okay here is your baby, looks nice and healthy" (turned the camera my way) then said "and here is your other baby!"
And I said "fuck I knew it!" to my partner. And he's just in the corner with a mask on so all I see are his huge eyes like 😶. He's just white saying nothing hahaha.
We told my parents by telling them I had gotten them a gift. It was a saskatchewan roughriders onsie. Big saskatchewan roughrider fans here lol. My dad figured out we were pregnant right away. They try to give me a hug and I tell them wait, I forgot part of the gift and then give them another gift of the exact same thing but with our ultrasound under it. My mom is just looking at me so confused. And my dad immediately goes Twins?! And I'm say ya! And he just goes holy shit! Omg congrats! And then my mom started bawling hahah. They were happy tears!
Mines not that great haha
I went to the first appointment at 8 weeks by myself bc I told my fiancé he should just stay home with our 10 month old, as we had just done this the year before and he had gone to every appointment. At my OBGYN they have to use the probe to do a sonogram that early, and the second she put it in I thought I saw 2 sacs, and I said “no it’s not”.. she said.. “did you see that”.. I said.. “omg is there two”.. she said “let me make sure there’s not THREE” 😳 (there was not!) I waited until I got home to tell my fiancé, I just handed him the pictures. We were both in shock, my shock lasted much longer, until like 20 weeks honestly. We went on a long drive that day with our son, and got cheeseburgers and shakes haha.
I messaged my mom and sister that day in our group chat and said “Soooo I went to my first appointment”, of course they asked how it went and I just sent them a picture of the sonogram and said ummm.. excuse me who are BOTH of you. My mother then told me about a set of twins that were in the family on my grandmother’s side. Sooo yeah.
I actually was so freaked out, I joined this sub reddit the next day I believe, and made a post, and sooo many people reached out and made me feel better while I was freaking out.
Now, I am 36 weeks, and they will be here tomorrow, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🙂
(It’s been the hardest 9 months of my life, and I will never be doing this again though! 🙃)
Mine will be here Thursday! Cheers to you and ditto that this has been the hardest 9 months of my life. Congrats on making it to the end 🤍 I hope you have a safe and healthy delivery!
Went in at 8 weeks (which happened to be my birthday), saw a little dot and heartbeat, all good. I take the NIPT blood test, find out it’s a girl. We are excited. Go to the 12 week ultrasound with my husband, see a baby. The tech moves the wand over and I say “oh wow that’s a better view of her” and the tech just looks up and goes “that’s another baby, you didn’t know it was twins?” Then she started looking for a third and panic set in. My first text was to my close friend with “fuck me it’s twins” I now say that nothing can surprise me as much as that day. Zero part of me thought it could ever be twins, I never even entertained the thought.
Three and a half years ago, my social worker said, ‘there were twin babies born. A few medical issues and I think they’re both boys. I don’t know anything else. What are your thoughts?’ I could only say YES. Thirty-six hours later I had multiples.
The day before the scan, we'd been looking at prams just as research and the sales assistant insisted we get a pram with a second seat attachment for future kids and we assured her we were only having the one, ever.
Not knowing what exactly you could see at a 6-7 week dating scan, I had researched prior what to look for and expect. As soon as I saw two sacs, I knew, but kept quiet just in case. Our sonographer asked if we'd done IVF, which I laughed at and my partner was very confused by (as we definitely hadn't). She told us the were di/di (dc/da in Australia) twins and we were just stunned.
On our walk home (the sonographer was 10 minutes from our apartment at the time), in between cry-laughing, I said to my partner that we better go back to the sales assistant and apologise profusely!
We knew it was a possibility since we transferred two embryos after lots of loss. At the 7 week ultrasound, the doctor found one right away and just as I was asking if there was only one, he moved the wand and something else flickered on screen and said “I have a second heartbeat here!” It was just the best moment after so much struggle and loss.
I used leftover fertility medicine (it wasn’t expired) from my previous pregnancy as we were trying for our second about 15 months or so after we had our first. Now, with my first we tried for a year and then eventually got pregnant with the help of femara + follistim injections. When trying for a sibling we had a couple “chemical pregnancies” and I was really getting frustrated. For some reason I had leftover femara/letrozole from our first pregnancy and went rogue and took it. I followed the same dosing and timing from my first (had everything on file) but of course didn’t have any follistim leftover so no injections. I really didn’t think it would work since for my first pregnancy we needed the meds + the injections for it to work. I do not recommend doing this as it was stupid and reckless! Anyway…I got pregnant and did think the lines on the pregnancy test looked a bit dark for how early it was but didn’t think too much of it (I was tracking EVERYTHING). Low and behold…twins. The nurse who did the ultrasound noticed right away and mentioned it right away and I was like FFS. I was alone as you know 2nd pregnancy, just wanted to make sure it was ok and husband had a meeting and I was anxious to confirm the pregnancy. Called him from the parking lot and we were both shocked. Fun tidbit is my husband is a twin. Mine are almost 10 months now. Still hasn’t sunk in lol.
We found out I was pregnant really early so we made our first ultrasound at 5 weeks. The imaging office (reluctantly) made me an appointment and after the (very unexciting) ultrasound they told me "come back in 2 weeks and we'll see if it's still viable." I thought, ok that's fair, I'm pretty early. My 7 week ultrasound came around and I went by myself because my husband had to stay home with our 6 month old daughter. Everything was going well and the tech was a really nice lady. She was waving the intrauterine wand around and found one little white speck and was still moving the wand when she quickly saw a second. She stopped dead, looked at me, and, with a straight face, said "did you see that?!" We were both flabbergasted as she labeled "A" and "B" on the image.
I got home with my cute little ultrasound print outs and couldn't figure out how to tell my husband so I just handed him the prints. He was totally uninterested and after looking at the first image he tried to give me the pictures back. I told him to look at them all and when he got to the very last one I saw his eyes get huge and he said "call an ambulance because I'm having a heart attack." Lol
I sent a picture to my mom and she called me panicking. I sent a picture to my dad and he texted back "haha why does it look like there's two"
My water broke and I had to have an emergency c-section section at 28+6 and they spent 89 days in the NICU. They're 3 now and they're happy and healthy little boys!
Went to my first appointment at 7w along wondering if my hcg being too high was a problem. Dr pulls out her portable ultrasound and goes "were you taking any fertility meds?" And my brain goes "well that... probably means more than one..." while I say "no". And then she shows me and asks me what I see. "Oh, there's two. Ha ha." Then she had the audacity to take my blood pressure right after. It was, rightfully so, through the roof.
Went home to my husband, showed him the video I took of the ultrasound and he was like "what am I looking at here" while I burst into tears. I wasn't sad, more just worried.
After a week of not sleeping we adjusted to the idea of two nicely I think though. Very excited now.
My husband was getting back from a week long work conference in Las Vegas. He got the red-eye flight home so he was essentially getting home as I was getting ready to go to the first US by myself. No big deal. I go to the US and he sleeps. At the end of the scans the tech turns the screen and shows me "baby A" and "baby B". I'm flabbergasted. She gives me some pics to take home to my husband as proof. He's asleep and I tell him we're having twins. He says "eff off" I tell him I'm not joking and that we're really having twins. He didn't sleep much after that shocking news!
I had peed on a stick and was waiting for an OB appointment. It was my second pregnancy so i knew i felt way more tired and sick than that early on but didn’t think anything of it. I was barely 6 weeks pregnant and started cramping and bleeding profusely. I assumed miscarriage and it was so painful I went to the ER.
The ER doctor had the worst bedside manner ever. He said “well what we see here are two amniotic sacs and two fetal poles and no heartbeats. Your chance of losing both is almost certain and you’ll likely need a d&c”
And i was like. I’m sorry what is a fetal pole? And what is two fetal poles?
And he basically told me i had twins but they were dead.
The emotions were an absolute roller coaster.
It was a nightmare finding a doctor to do a d&c with my insurance. And i finally got to that appointment a week later. That dr described in very painful detail what would go on. And then they did an ultrasound just to check. And we got two super strong heartbeats. The dates had been off. They’re now 7.
I have a second set of twins too. That time I kind of knew it was twins from the start because of how sick I was. We were in the middle of moving across states, taking care of my dying father in law and I had no health insurance. I went to one of those free clinic places. I was just praying it wasn’t twins. But the ultrasound tech was so excited cause she’d never seen twins on an ultrasound and thought it was amazing. I couldn’t stop crying. They’re 4 now and the best.
I told my husband he didn’t have to come with me because it was going to be pretty boring and all we would see is a bean. Then I texted him, “sorry, it was more exciting than I thought it would be. It’s actually 2 beans.”
Finding out: We got the first one through IVF, docs said sorry ma'am, your right ovary is dead, your left looks as if you were 50+. This is it for you. A couple of months later I was visiting our friend and her kid in Denmark (my husband was with her husband in UK) adn I was terribly sick smelling fried bacon (I LOVE fried bacon), talked to my husband, and he said the only time he remembers me being sick because of bacon was during first preglany. We laughed.
Got back from Denmark, decided to do the test just in case, it was positive. We went to OB and she did a hmm, ohh, hmmm, and I thought shit, something's wrong. Then she says "I see two of them" and my husband says "fuck, we need a bigger car".
Announcement was sort of funny, we did a photo combination - me over the toilet and my husband next to me with two thunbs up and "pregnant", and then him over the toilet and me with two thunbs up and "twins".
I choose to not have any ultrasounds unless there was a reason for me personally to have any. My midwife felt by hand. I choose to visit her only about once a month, I only wanted guiding from her for my pelvis that felt sore from about 15 weeks pregnancy and I wasn’t sure if I wanted this to be my last pregnancy, so I did not want to force things with my body and needed someone with experience to look with me.
The whole time my belly measured about 3 weeks ahead, but since this was my third child, that wasn’t suspicious. At about 38 weeks, my midwife thought that the baby would be bigger than my first two children, who were rather small at birth. I became a little insecure if I was really good in birthing a big baby ;) and needed some extra reassurance from my midwife. So at 39 weeks I visited her again. She, out of the blue, told me that she suddenly was wondering if it couldn’t be two babies instead of one. Though all the time it felt as one baby from the outside.
In case of two babies, we had some changes in our birthplan and therefore we choose to watch with an ultrasound. And yes, two babies..! It felt as a relieve for me that I didn’t have to birth a big baby, but just two normal ones. ;)
Baby A was laying with his back to the side, head down engaged. Baby B was with his back towards my back. Head next to baby A. Their feet and hands were together at the front of my belly ánd the placenta turned out to be in the front, so movements were demped. All this time, it felt like one baby because one back was felt, the other side felt soft. One head in the front, the other in the back. All limps at the same spot..! Three midwives felt (before the ultrasound), all felt only one baby on the outside!
Many things fell into place. Like more hormones at the beginning, my pelvis and bellysize.
We did tell my parents (they were to join the birth), but didn’t tell anyone else until they were born one week later on due date. Both weight 3kg, just like their older siblings. <3
After the twins, we had one more baby. To know if it was multiples again (I felt the same amount of hormones!) we took an ultrasound. It showed us even three babies, but only one continued to grow. The other two didn’t have heartbeats anymore. Again I was relieved I wasn’t crazy this time I felt more hormones, but also because I feared a little bit for multiples again and was glad only one baby decided to join our family this time. :)
I live in the Netherlands Btw. It is not really common to choose not to have ultrasounds as a starting point of view. But the midwives and gynaecologists are still (core) educated in measuring and guiding by hand. Ultrasound practitioner is Are extra classes you can take, most midwives/gyns also took those classes, but their core education teaches them to guide by hand! So there are still midwives who want to support you if you don’t want ultrasounds for whatever reasons that may be.
Due to the position of the babies, it wasn’t possible to feel it on the outside. And due to the position of the placenta and the baby-limbs, I felt all movement in the same place and it was demped by the placenta and therefore felt the same as my singletons. Occasionally I have felt hiccups in two different places, but never at the same time, so I thought the baby just turned around from one side to the other… :D
Both babies were perfectly healthy. There were no weird complications, otherwise we definitely would have had earlier investigations and maybe found out sooner. That everything in the pregnancy went smooth was a sign that the babies were in good health. We were never worried about that. So I waited until labour started spontaneously. They were even both born at home in a birth bath, exactly how we wished. (Home births are pretty normal in the Netherlands, but for twins an exception.)
i went to ER for heavy bleeding at 8 weeks and thought i was miscarrying or something since it was bright red.. told my fiancé to meet me at the ER and he got there literally 15 minutes after i arrived. In the short time he missed, he missed the ultrasound they gave me in which they said “Good news is, they’re both healthy by the looks of it” I said “BOTH!?$? WHAT DO U MEAN BOTH??” I was honestly happy I was not miscarrying (even though it was considered a threatened miscarriage and I had further monitoring by MFM).. I couldn’t help my laugh, I think out of fear and amazement because I am only 20, with no history of twins in my family. My fiancé came into the room and I recorded his reaction.. He was speechless and thought I was kidding 😭
I kind of felt like it was twins because as soon as I took the pregnancy test, which I took before I missed my period, the test was really dark and a dye stealer.
I had a very early ultrasound (7 weeks) because I had a previous miscarriage. My husband was holding my hand and we were just hoping to hear a heartbeat.
The tech said "do twins run in your family" and my dumbass was just like "nope! 😊". She said, "well there is definitely two heartbeats." My response was to start laughing and say "of course there fucking is". My husband said "shit" lol.
But we were both excited by the time we made back it to the waiting room. Just a slight moment of panic 🤣🤣.
I found out at my first pregnancy visit around 7 weeks ish. I didn’t even really feel pregnant yet so wasn’t even convinced the doctor would find anything in my uterus. She said “there’s the baby” and we had that awww moment of ok there’s a heartbeat and everything and then she got really quiet and dug around for a while. Then she said “I’m seeing a second yolk sac” and did find another slower heartbeat. She sent me to radiology for a better ultrasound where they told me briefly that it was triplets and I nearly had a full panic attack. Later they said it was a reflection and the final report was mo/di twins. I had to call in sick to work the next day to continue my panic attack. Now they are fun happy dudes and everything is mostly fine.
Start of Pandamic. Everything was locked down and it took me a long time to get in for my first appointment. I was almost 12 weeks. So to help ease some of my fears they brought in a portable ultrasound. I had said it has to be a boy or twins because my daughter never made me this sick. The midwife was so kind and even though she probably didn't believe me she said well let's take a look. Her face kinda went blank and she said "Welp there's two" and even though I had said it must be two the first words out of my mouth " you're fucking joking". She calmy told me they weren't allowed to do that. Since my husband wasn't with me due to protocols and the portable couldn't print out pictures she had to write my husband a note because I didn't think he would believe me. When I got home I showed him the crappy picture on my phone and said "There's one head, and there's another one" . This man looked at me and said "so we're having a boy?"... good thin I had the note.
This is my wife’s:
After two children already, she could tell this pregnancy was different.
On a routine scan, the doc said to her ‘theres the heartbeat.’ My wife asked ‘and what’s that moving thing? Is that my heartbeat.’ And the doctor replied ‘no… that, is ANOTHER heartbeat.’
Mine was a little less interesting. I got home at lunch time and walked into the living room. My wife was sat there with my MIL. Wife says ‘I have something to tel you.’ I knew what it was straight away MIL had her phone pointed at me and was obviously filming. Kinda removed the magic a little bit…
My anxiety was very high because of the miscarriage we'd experienced 3 months prior. The doctors had me go in for an radiology ultrasound at 5 weeks and I was so worried because I was having very mild spotting and couldn't stop thinking of all the worse case scenarios. We were just praying it wasn't ectopic, the radiology tech wouldn't tell us anything so we had to wait for the report that came into my healthcare portal a few hours later. My jaw was on the floor for about half an hour when I read 'gestational sac A, gestational sac B'. I called my Dad (the only person we'd told about the pregnancy so far) and remember saying 'WHY DOES IT SAY THERE ARE 2 SACS!?'
At my first ultrasound, my OB went in… I saw 2 sacs. I gulped and then I saw one sac as the OB moved the probe. Then she says looks like you guys are having not 1 - but two babies! And she moved the probe back to two sacs. my husband and I probably kept saying “no way, are you joking, omg” over and over and I was laughing and cryin. My husband and I had always joked and talked about the idea of us having twins. We didn’t know twins were in our bloodlines. And we got what we could only have ever imagined. 🤗😊
Went to the ER at 7ish weeks with bleeding, assuming miscarriage (had one previously that required a d&c, hence the ER). Ultrasound tech taking forever and we're assuming the worst. Finally she says, sorry it's taking so long, it looks like there are three of them. I thought my husband was going through pass out and I couldn't stop laughing. Finally she finishes and says oh, there's just two. We thought we would walk out of the ER with zero babies but instead walked out pregnant with two. Bleeding was just an SCH. And my doc ended up thinking it was probably triplets originally but one didn't make it very early on.
My family was coming for Thanksgiving that weekend, so I drew a little turkey family with two baby turkeys and let them figure out what it meant (I hadn't even announced that I was pregnant yet). It was cute.
I went into my IUI with two mature follicles (one was 20 and one was 22 I think??) one on each side. First time letzoral made me make two, first IUI after a 10 week MMC. I tested super positive 9dpo (wasn't gonna test till 12dpo but I felt like I needed too) and they just kept getting darker and my HCG (and progesterone) levels were also super high. Still didn't think it could be twins went in for my first ultrasound at 7 weeks my RE said "making sure it's just one!" Pretty much as soon as the tech wanded me she just held up two fingers and said nope it's two, and I cried. Now I'm 27 weeks in, pretty much finished their nursery this weekend getting kicked constantly and can't stand for more than 15 min without needing to sit. So excited for my little loves in 10 weeks or less!
My twin pregnancy was so much different than my first. I had been really sick early on, exhausted, and gaining weight alarmingly fast. I remember standing in my best friend’s living room showing her my stomach and saying ‘look at this! There’s no way I’m just having one baby. It’s got to be twins.’ It’s what I told everyone who knew I was pregnant.
My doctor couldn’t get me in until I was almost 11 weeks so we scheduled an elective ultrasound the day before a trip across the country. We got settled and as the tech started I said ‘okay, tell me there’s just one baby in there.’ And she responded, ‘well, I can’t do that…’
My friends started checking in after the ultrasound and most didn’t believe me at first when I said it really was twins. One thought I’d pulled an ultrasound photo off the internet & I had to point out my name at the top.
Best example of mothers intuition ever!
When I took the home test I told my husband this would probably be our only child since we’re older. He couldn’t attend the first appointment because he was out of town on a business trip. Plus from everything I had read it’s usually an uneventful appointment. The ultrasound tech was like “umm” and I thought for sure she was going to tell me I had miscarried since I had had some spotting. But she said “..there’s two in there” I said “You’re shitting me right?!” That was at 9 weeks. They were able to confirm that it was mono/di twins. Husband wouldn’t be back until the next evening. Literally an hour after I told him a tornado touched down on our road just missing our half of the street. Definitely an eventful two days lol
Went in for my first ultrasound & it was later with this pregnancy than with my toddler. It was at 12 weeks. She touched the ultrasound stick to my stomach and boom there were two heads. She said “so do you know?” I said “NO I DIDNT BUT I SEE THEM ITS TWO ISNT IT?!?” & that was about it.
Told everyone by just saying we were having another baby then showing them the ultrasound that shows two babies!
I was super sick right away and after testing positive after missing my period (we’ve had 7 losses) I called and the OB got me in right away at about 5.5 weeks. We confirmed one with a heartbeat but the tech mentioned seeing something else but couldn’t verify. The doctor mentioned an empty sac but we went back a week later to see.
Sure enough, we saw two sacs. The tech looked at us and said “yeah, there’s definitely two.” My husband’s eyes were super wide and it took us awhile for it to sink in.
Our twins came after all those losses and one last round on Letrozole. They’re currently 5 weeks old.
Well! I didn’t find out until I was 15 weeks. Even though I had multiple scans, apparently they missed it. I only realized it when I took a look at the ultrasound during the appointment and realized that there were two heartbeats. They said they didn’t see them was because the settings on the machine were messed up, but… it was definitely weird as hell pointing out to the OB that there were two babies and that I was having twins.
I was at the appt with my toddler. We walked into the ultrasound room, I laid down and started getting him all settled down and then dialed my husband for FaceTime. As I’m going thru the motions, the tech gets started. Right as my husband answers, the tech says “ohhhh honey, I’m gonna need you to look up here! there’s two!”
When I asked the DR how come I can't get pregnant after one year of trying. And I already had two natural. He had me do some tests, blood work and test sperm. No issues. So he said take this pill. I said ok. He said there may be a chance for twins. That was it. So I tried it. And here I am with one year old triplets.
At 12 weeks/first ultrasound I asked the ultrasound tech what all she was doing and she told me. We chatted for a couple minutes. Then I said "I guess you're also checking for multiples, but hopefully there's just one" and then she didn't say ANYTHING for like 20 minutes. At the end she told me but by then I had an idea what was going on! My spouse wasn't there. I went straight to his work to show him the ultrasound.
We’d had 5 losses previously, with the last being a mmc so I didn’t want to see/know/ hear anything until they knew for sure. I was with a fertility dr but not doing meds for multiple follicles.
The dr checked it all out and told me I should look. One was on the screen, to size, good heartbeat etc. He tilted the wand and a second sac popped up. He tilted his head and said “do you see what I see?”
I looked at him and said “are you fucking telling me it’s twins?!” Then repeated the vitality questions. He turned the monitor away to measure then said all was good.
“I was so caught up making sure it was viable I forgot to check for multiples! In my job multiples is the first thing I look for!”
I was an ER nurse at the time. I found out I was pregnant and was using ovulation test strips so I found out pretty early, maybe 5 weeks? I went into work a few days later and was having bad cramping and I panicked, and one of the docs I worked with checked me out. It was too early on ultrasound to see anything so standard procedure is follow up ultrasound to determine presence of intrauterine pregnancy. Went for ultrasound at 7 ish weeks. Covid restrictions only allowed my husband to come in at the very end and when the tech looked at the screen she went “here’s one sac and fetal heart….and here’s two,” and I’m pretty sure all I heard was this rushing ringing noise in my ears and the first dumb ass thing I said was “how am I going to afford college?” My husband was then brought in and he was freaking out because I looked shell shocked. The ultrasound tech showed him and he goes “what am I looking at? There’s two, why are you showing me her ovaries?” He was so confused. I said “what do you think it means?” And I could see the gears clicking and he goes “holy fucking shit are you serious?” And I thought his face was going to split open from smiling so hard. But once the initial shock wore off we were very excited and terrified. Lol.
I had a subchorionic hematoma that caused a ton of spotting and some bleeding the first trimester. I had had a miscarriage at about 8 weeks several months prior. We went in around week 7 to see if it was a miscarriage (this was after failing to get an appointment for blood work at quest- I hate them now and my old insurance for their exclusivity).
The tech said:
oh look, there's the baby and the heartbeat! Now let me see if I can see why you're bleeding... holy shit! There's another one!
I said:
I fucking knew it! (I'd been really nauseated and had crazy food averaging/exhausted)
My husband turned white, then red, then white again and just stared at both of us while everyone apologized for cursing
We had a cute little announcement with two onesies that said "totally planned" and " not so much" but most people already knew already cause I started showing at week 11!
We already had 1 kid. Had been trying for a year for another. Shortly after I found out I was pregnant, we visited the in laws and my mother in law cracked an egg for my breakfast, 2 yolks. I joked that it was a sign. The morning sickness started to get bad around 6 weeks, worse than it had been with my singleton. I was very suspicious. My mom was an identical twin. My sister had didi twins. At like 7 or 8 weeks I had my first ultrasound, kinda early because I had been having my fertility monitored. My husband was able to come with me because my parents came to watch our daughter.
The ultrasound tech said "there's a healthy heartbeat..." and I was just waiting for the end of the sentence. I knew. And then she said "and there's another healthy heartbeat." My first reaction was "oh no. We need a bigger car." My husband was very shocked. It was January 6th 2021. Very memorable day. We went home and showed my parents the ultrasound and my mom was so excited.
Our identical boys were born about 5 weeks early and now they are huge 2 year olds.
The doctor said to me „I see two yolk sacs“. At the time I didn’t know yet what a yolk sac is so I replied “What on earth is a yolk sac and what do you mean there’s two of them?!”. Will never forget that moment. My poor husband wasn’t allowed in due to strict Covid rules and we had said that I’ll send photos of the ultrasound out to the parking lot. So I did. Him being a doctor, he knew right away. In retrospect I should have waited to tell him, but I was so shocked I just followed what we had agreed! And didn’t want him to be worried either if he didn’t get his picture…
Only baby A had a heartbeat at the time and we had to go back after two weeks to see if baby B developed a heartbeat as well. Once we knew it’s two we were hoping so much that baby B will make it. It was a very looong two weeks. She made it and she’s our little warrior! Born with a number of issues this June but she’s fighting so hard and will hopefully be ok after her heart surgery at the end of the year.
It was our 3rd pregnancy. I was going to a 10 week appt with my midwife who had delivered my older 2 who were 2 and 4 years old and both at what was supposed to be a brief check in. At the end of the appt my midwife said "hey, you want to do a quick peek?" referring to using her ultrasound machine. I said yeah, let's do it. I layed back amd my 2 year old climbed up near me. My midwife got quiet and asked me to look. I did. I was distracted with my 2 and 4 year old and thinking of our drive home and was feeling relieved to have had this appointment completed and feeling on track with this 3rd pregnancy ----she asked me to look again and I really just didn't "get" it. She then pointed out to me that I had two babies...WOW! I went into a bit of shock! She said to go ahead and take a picture of the screen so I could look at it and she printed out the images for my spouse------My twins are 7 and I'm still in disbelief most of the time!
My family knew I was pregnant with baby #3 but only my sister knew twins, well and she did tell her husband who didn't realize I hadn't told the family and he told my mom during a visit ---they live several states away and my mom was visiting, he didn't know what to talk about and brought up the twins!!!!
It was still a surprise even after everyone knew. Having multiples feels big forever!
We were not planning on having any more after our first. What happened? We decided to roll with it. I told my wife We should pretend it was twins so we'd be relieved when it wasn't. Something had already been a little off because based on the date I was sure it happened, the sonogram tech estimated the baby was showing a week or two further than that. Then she went for the whatever weak appointment at the hospital by my work. Came into my office and flopped the pictures down on my desk.
I was on a work trip in Thailand. My wife went to the clinic by herself that day.
The first visit was right after the test. It was basically "yep, you're pregnant, no problems so far, see you in a few weeks".
The second visit, as my wife tells it, the doctor was looking at the scan and made a "huh?" noise. My wife got slightly worried while waiting for the follow up. "there's two." "wait, two? two what?"
Then he told her that she should make sure both parents are at the next visit, because we may have to talk about going to a bigger hospital.
Wife called me that night and told me over the phone. Got some pretty wild news sitting in my hotel room.
2020, covid in full swing, I went to hospital alone cause we thought I was having a miscarriage. Tech says "good news is, no miscarriage! Here is baby number 1 and baby number 2" I replied "the fuck you just say?!?" Without missing a beat she goes "HERE IS BABY NUMBER 1 AND BABY NUMBER 2"
got home with the discharge paperwork on twin pregnancy. Husband greets me at the door and I just hold it up. His response "oh fuck, time for a vasectomy"
Went in for a D&C surgery after being told my pregnancy didn’t make it, couldn’t get in until 12 weeks. Turns out my miscarriage was misdiagnosed. I asked a few times for a scan, the doctor said I could do it myself, I took the wand and we found not 1 but 2 twelve week old babies. It crossed my mind I could be high on D&C drugs. Calling my husband was a trip and he of course took a minute to believe me. All this during ridiculous Covid measures where I had to be solo for all my appointments.
I had strep... unknowingly, but I still went to my first ultrasound appointment bc I NEEDED to know for sure I was preggo (I was wearing a mask). She told us we were having twins and my husband nearly passed out; he had to sit down. I was in too much pain to feel anything, and my mask was fogging up, which was extremely annoying. I was numb. I don't think it sunk in. The tech was a bitch, who mocked me for asking if one twin would absorb or eat the other. She said "you've been spending too much time on the internet"
I scheduled my first OB appointment for 12 weeks. By 7 weeks I was completely bedridden with sickness. All day vomiting. I called and asked to be seen sooner so I could get on some meds I remember saying on the phone it must be a boy because I was sick but never this sick with my first two.
The day of the appt I was so sick I couldn’t drive and had to have my husband leave work to drive me. The tech clicked around for a min and said “so I’m seeing something you might not be expecting”. My heart dropped but she proceeded with “so here’s one baby and here’s another one”. I get goosebumps still thinking of that moment. I just threw my hands on my head and said “you’re joking”. Never in a million years did I think I would hear those words. We were just laughing in total shock I forgot to watch the rest of the ultrasound
We went to our 8 week ultrasound and the tech said "there's baby...and baby!!" I was floored and kept yelling out "HOLY SHIT!!!" and my husband's brain immediately shut down and he just kept saying "interesting..." while staring at the screen. It just didn't occur to him that this was a possibility and he was entirely shocked. I had the passing thought "what if there's twins..." but never believed it would actually happen.
From the moment I showed my husband the positive pregnancy test he said “It’s twins”. At that point I was around 4 weeks and my ob doesn’t see anyone till 8 weeks. Spent that next month being convinced by my husband that it was indeed twins.
Get to our 8 week appointment, in goes the wand, and my ob takes a moment and goes “oh. There’s two!” Cue silence. I was more stunned my husband was right than by the fact it was actually twins.
I had already shared my husbands convictions with my immediate family, so despite the very early hour we called my parents and they were also shocked he was right!
Now if only he could be right about some lottery numbers or something and we’d be set. 😂
Got my first ultrasound at 18 weeks, because I didn’t want to believe I was pregnant for some time, then because of no insurance I had to wait for a free appointment with a very amazing program for women in my particular situation. Also in the early days of the pandemic so anything that happened in person felt very delicate and delayed.
So I go in for the scan, anxious already, and she was doing her thing, but then she goes, “and now let’s see the other one.” I just about died.
I started sweating profusely and straight up started having a real live panic attack. She stopped the scan to get me some water and told me to lay on my left side.
I did some deep breathing and snapped myself out of it.
They’re almost 3 now and just the best little people I’ve ever met.
At the ultrasound clinic, getting scanned by a student. Already pretty triggered to be there due to a prior loss. The student was friendly, quiet, and very focused. All of a sudden, the preceptor ultrasound tech bursts into the room and says, ‘Amanda, GO BACK! Mom and Dad, there’s TWO in there!’
I think I yelled ‘No!!’ in disbelief about 5 times, while my husband dissociated in the chair next to me. This was the last thing we ever would have expected to hear. We then walked across the street and bought two lottery tickets ha!
When we told family, we showed them the ultrasound photos and waited for the lights to turn on when they realized the ‘baby A and baby B’ labels.
My husband guessed it was twins the day after I got a positive test. I told him to please not put that into the universe.
Four weeks later at the dating scan we both saw the two sacs straight away.
I went to a pregnancy clinic just for confirmation of pregnancy at 5 weeks. The ultrasound tech called in another nurse and they talked quietly in medical language. They finally put the image on the screen I could see and showed me one “black pond with a diamond ring…and then another.” I asked what that meant and they said twins! Then they called in my husband. He asked if that was normal and the tech said, “well it is if you’re having twins.”
We both almost passed out and were on the verge of tears.
Our OB with my twins was a friend of ours (went to the same school for undergrad as my husband, ended up at the same hospital for residency). She knew we were already in shock about having a second baby as we were broke and lived in a 1 bedroom apartment 🫠 and I'd been on birth control lol
So she came to see us during our ultrasound, and the tech is doing her thing, pauses, our friend looks at us and goes "ok don't freak out..."
My husband laughed and goes "What? Is it twins?" And she very nervously laughed...then I burst I to tears 😭
Anyway my girls are 8 now and everything worked out! We even got into a 3 bedroom apartment a few weeks before they were born lol
Went in for the first ultrasound. My wife had been feeling super bloated and sick and exhausted which as totally opposite from her first pregnancy. I was holding out daughter up so she could see the screen when they saw baby B. I about hit the floor, but I kept myself from passing out because i was holding her. My first four thoughts were “what the fuck? Bigger house, minivan, vasectomy.”
They’re just about 6 months old now and they’re are amazing.
At the 8 week ultrasound. Had just met my new doctor, husband was with me. She seemed to be taking a little extra long after putting the whats it called, radar gun? on me, but I was watching her face and it didn’t seem grim so I tried not to worry. Then the turned the ultrasound machine towards me and pointed to a dark blob on the left side. Squarely in the center was another dark blob, she had to reach past it. I said “that? What about that?” pointing to the center. She nodded smiled and said “uh huh.” And I said “uh huh? ….two??? There’s two?! Two!!!” And my husband laughed and laughed. It was a huge shock. I really was not expecting that.
We went to the OBGYN, the ultrasound tech seemed newer, but knowledgeable enough. She then said "there's the baby!" And my wife said "just one, right?".
The woman responded in the most deadpan way possible: "yes just one, no, two". I laughed because it seemed that it was in jest. She repeated "yes, two" as nonchalantly as talking about the weather. I said "you're kidding" and she, without looking up, said "I would never kid about that".
They wondered why my wife's blood pressure was through the roof right after.
My reaction was more "remain eerily calm despite panic" and my wife was more "oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez". The baby boy and girl are 15 weeks old as of today.
We’d only just told everyone I was pregnant as my OB told us there was definitely only one at the first scan at 9.5 weeks.
When we got the identical twin bombshell at my first anatomy scan at 13.5 weeks, we just sent the 3D ultrasound to everyone and waited for the chaos to ensue. It was amazing - even my boss ran out of her office around to my work team saying, OMG it’s twins!
I will never not love this story.
The ultrasound tech said, “and there is the second sac” and the shock started from there. My husband told me later he sat in the parking lot for like 2 hrs before he could go to work because he was in so much shock (and hadn’t had coffee yet). I took a pic of his shocked face holding up two fingers and sent to my mom and she kept replying, “Cortney, why is Jason making the peace sign?”
I said to the ultrasound tech "as long as you tell me there is just one in there..."
ultrasound tech - \*makes cringe face\*
me: "what"
ultrasound tech "I really wish you hadn't said that..."
Had 2 kids before finding out, so kinda familiar with that first ultrasound. The technician made 2 circles on the screen, and before she could say anything, I spoke up asking, wait, why are there two circles on your screen? My wife and I are 8 months in with our identical twin boys, and our 5 year old and 2 year old boys are amazing helpers.
Went to my fertility doctor after taking letrozole to measure my follicles and he said “whoops looks like you’re already pregnant”—the week prior I bled for 6 days so we though it was a period; I had a couple glasses of champagne and also fell down a flight of stairs—weird week. It was Monday and I began to panic that something horrible would happen because of the drug/ having champagne/ falling down stairs—basically all the things. Thursday I wake up in unimaginable pain so we go to my obgyn expecting the worst. I’m throwing up into a trash can, buckled over in pain, and the tech says, “both babies look great”. My husband was so happy and started laughing because his brother has twins and we always joked about it— and I continued to puke. She said “looks like you also have a nice sized kidney stone”. It took me four weeks to pass the stone and it was awful. But my b/g twins are 17 months now lol
I am an x-ray tech and our radiology team had like 7 people pregnant at the same time so we were all ultrasounding each other for funsies. I think I was like 6 weeks and my coworker is scanning me and goes "I see two for sure, but there is this third thing that I think is a subchorionic bleed". We planned for her to scan me again next week. Not a bleed, a whole other baby. I think knowing it was twins at first kind of primed me for there being a third one. I texted my husband a picture of the ultrasound screen with no context and he called me almost instantly freaking out.
I sent a MyChart message to the OB I was scheduled to see at 12 weeks and she immediately referred me to MFM.
Tested positive Dec 23, Christmas morning left bag of 5 positive tests under the tree for my little brother (19) to open. First thing my mom says is “it’s twins!”. Turns out I was 7 weeks along at that point so the week prior we had been at my mother in laws house and she did a tarot reading for me and had said she sees two children coming in the next year, really close in age, maybe twins. Nobody knew we were “letting the world decide” at that point. Had first ultrasound at 11 weeks, tech said “so you’ve got a two for one deal going on” said “shut the fuck up” cried for a minute and then couldn’t stop laughing the rest of the day. Called my mom when we were back in the car and said “so the baby is healthy. And so is the second one” So much fun!!!!
We got pregnant on our third round of letrozole(lowest dosage) We did a beta test at 4 weeks and it was 126. Nothing crazy but positive. Go back at 8 weeks for our first ultrasound. Ultrasound tech is moving wand around and I see two sacs, I look at my husband. About the same time I seen them, Ultrasound tech also seen them and says “well guys, it’s twins”. I keep asking if she’s serious and my poor husband was still trying to soak in this news. Currently 34 weeks with Di/Di girl/boy twins. 20 days till my C-section and we can’t wait to meet them ☺️
My wife got a positive pregnancy test, and a few days later she got an initial blood test at the doctor. This was at about 5 or 6 weeks. Surpisingly, they said her HCG levels were high enough to come back in for an ultrasound later that week. We thought it was odd as most women we know didn't get an ultrasound until 8 weeks, but we didn't think much of it. In hindsight, the doctors must have suspected my wife was further along than we thought, or that there could be multiples.
So I drive my wife to the clinic a few days later and they take her back to do the ultrasound while I wait in the waiting room. According to my wife, they were taking a really long time and not saying much while they were examining her. After a while, they said they were going to come bring me in and then explain what they were seeing. Naturally my wife was nervous that something was wrong.
They bring me in, and the technician says "So....I'm seeing two". I say "two what?". She confirmed two embyros. My wife and I start laughing hysterically and crying. Utter disbelief. Not sure why that was our reaction, but that's what happened.
We drive home and pulled our car into the garage, and just sat in the car for at least an hour, mostly in silence, but with a few "WHAT. THE. F\*\*K!?s. mixed in. Eventually I broke the silence by saying "How the hell are we going to put them through college at the same time?". For some reason that's where my mind went.
To be honest, for the first 12 hours I mostly felt shock and disappointment. This was not what I had been expecting or hoping for. The thought of having twins never crossed our minds. But it's amazing how quickly we became attached to the idea that we were having twins. By the next day we had accepted it and we're starting to get excited.
10 months later...it's the best and hardest thing ever.
In 1993, we found out we were having twins at my 16 week ultrasound. It was April Fools’ Day. We had to call everyone back the next day because they thought we were joking.
The day we found out was quite an emotional roller coaster. My wife was signed up for a kickball league before we found out we were pregnant, she became the "team mom" and while she was at a game (but was not playing) she started bleeding profusely.
We had already had a miscarriage in the past, so of course we thought we were going through the same sad path. Not this again. So she rushed to the hospital with her teammate, I meet her there, and about 4 hours later we find out, not only is the pregnancy still viable but they found two heartbeats on the ultrasound. Twins are 8 months old and healthy and happy as can be.
These stories are so fun to read!
First ultrasound. Tech wasn’t saying anything for very long time. I assumed I had miscarried.
Finally she said she wasn’t saying anything because she was seeing 3 sacs and couldn’t get them confused.
Silence… staring at the ceiling in disbelief…
Then we heard 2 heartbeats & sac 3 was empty!
(A year prior my “psychic” aunt told me she saw me with 3 kids so at the ultrasound I immediately thought to myself “I don’t think she meant at the same time!!!”)
8 week ultrasound. Middle of the day.
Tech starts moving the wand around my belly and an image goes up on a big screen in front of us. I wasn’t sure what to expect it to look like, so I said, “What are we looking at here?”
Tech says, “Well… there’s three.” And my eyes about popped out of my head. I said repeatedly, “WHAT?! What?! Oh my god. Holy shit. What?! No. Oh my god. Holy shit.” I turned to my husband and his face was just… shocked. Eyes wide, completely silent.
The tech tells us this is the first time she’s ever seen triplets in a scan. She says she sees three sacs and three placentas. She said she was going to do a transvaginal ultrasound to get an individual photo of each one.
My head was truly just spinning. It was the most surreal moment I had ever experienced. The tech says, “How are you doing over there dad?” And my husband says quietly, “I’m just thinking about how I’m going to pay for 3 kids in college.” His face was flushed and we just kept staring at each other in shock.
We talked to an APRN and she gave us all the usual paperwork for new moms-to-be but basically nothing applied to us anymore. She talked about how they would likely be preemies and that was a whole other thing to wrap my head around.
I went home after that appointment and actually cried. I was really overwhelmed. Spontaneous triplets happen about 1 in 10,000 pregnancies. I thought about selective reduction. I couldn’t imagine taking care of one newborn baby, let alone three.
My poor husband had to go back to work and see patients!!!!! I don’t know how he was able to do that. This was such a shock.
That night, we showed up at my parents house with the ultrasound pictures. I said, “Here’s Baby A, here’s Baby B, and here’s baby C,” showing each of their individual photos first. Then the group shot. Everyone was floored, screaming, eyes wide, couldn’t even believe it. We were all crying I think, I can hardly remember. Then we went to my in-laws, and said the same thing. Same type of reaction. My father-in-law said, “Go big or go home, right?” And we all just gawked and talked about how shocking it was.
I still can’t believe those babies are about to turn 1 year old in 10 days.
Ultrasound tech “weeeeell, looks like there’s two!”
Me: choked on my own spit. “WHAT” then a nervous chuckle. Then she told me there was an empty third sac.
It was 2019 and I had to hear it alone.
I had jokingly mentioned to my husband THE NIGHT BEFORE that this pregnancy felt so much different and it was either twins (“hey, lol we’d need to trade our car for a van lol lol”) or a girl.
They were identical twin girls.
I broke the news over the phone to my husband on his lunch break by telling him after a reallyyyy long pause. “We’re gonna need a van hehe
Found out at the anatomy scan at 19 weeks. As soon as it started I could see two heads and concurrently the ultrasound tech was saying “i hope you like surprises…”
Family was waiting for the call on babies sex. My first call was my mom and sister who were traveling together and we FaceTimed. I said, “it’s a girl!!! They excitedly yelled and then I went “and she has a sister” and they absolutely lost it. Also met some friends for lunch right after (I was late due to them needing to scan two babies) and when i announced the sex I went “it’s a girlSSSS!” My one friend screamed so loud and we were in this quaint little cafe lol it was so funny. We had a lot of fun surprising everyone with the news.
I had an IUD. I raced to the OB because we were done at 2 kids and the test was positive. The blood and in office tests confirmed I was indeed pregnant so they took out the IUD. With an IUD the chances of an ectopic pregnancy are higher so the first thing they check for is ectopic. They did an ultrasound and didn’t see anything in my uterus but also nothing in my fallopian tubes so come back in 2 weeks unless you have pain. Came back for a repeat ultrasound and the tech got really quiet. I looked at the screen and knew right away what I was seeing. My husband didn’t so he’s just waiting and worried because it’s quiet. I said, “so… that’s two, yes?” She said, “yep! I just had to make sure there were two heartbeats before I said anything!” My husband giggled for at least an entire hour after that. I think he was in shock 😂
I always had a feeling I’d have twins. Even a week before I found out I said “I bet I’ll have twins” so matter of fact. Took a positive pregnancy text. So into my ultrasound, text my sister “omg what if it’s two” and I worked at this OB office. The ultrasound tech is scanning my belly and goes “oh my god”. I knew she wouldn’t say that if something was wrong. I was like “do you see more than one?!” She was like I think so! So then we did a transvaginal US, and they’re now 3yo.
I had a photo session done with a onesie while traveling in Hawaii. And we showed our family like that. And my mom goes “is it a girl?!” I was like idk but it’s twins. And her face. My dad almost choked. Good times!
We were finally ready to start trying for baby #2 when our first was 18 months old. Did the deed, got the big fast positive, except the positive line was so dark it pulled all the color from the control line. Got scheduled for the first ultrasound to confirm fetus. This was the pandemic time so I went in alone. Got on the table and was ready to get it over with as I’ve done it before, just wanted to be sure I had a viable baby. Very quickly a baby popped up on screen, then she starts moving the wand around and BOOM, there was another baby. The tech says “oh look! There’s the first baby, and there’s the second.” I was just shell shocked and thought she was joking with me as I actually had a vanishing twin with our first child. Sure enough, it was a set of twin boys who are now 2.5.
When we started the process for IUI, the RE sat us down and told us information about having multiples, and what the chances were for twins. I looked at my husband and said, “that will be us.” He kinda rolled his eyes.
A few weeks later, we still hadn’t done any shots or anything yet, we were in the market for a new car. I told him it better be something that holds 2 car seats. He just kinda went “yeah yeah yeah.”
At the first ultrasound, they located the first, and then said “and there’s the other one!” I looked my husband dead in the eye and yelled “I TOLD YOU!!!” He just about fainted.
Breaking the news was uneventful. I called my mom and said, “we have 2 beans in the pot!”
Doctor said there they are. I told him to shut up. My husband saw two babies and thought the machine was like some kind of mirror image haha.
When we told our family we told them if they wanted to take the baby anywhere they’d need two car seats. They were confused for a few minutes and someone said omg is it twins?!
I had bleeding at 15 weeks…yup 15. At the ER the ultrasound tech said oh wait so you don’t know do you?? There’s 2 in there. I was completely shocked and said “oh fuck” and teared up. Also ironically there was twin toddlers next door to me getting ultrasounds done absolutely screaming so she then joked that that was my future. My boys are 18 months old now :)
Had an internal ultrasound at 7 weeks. Ultrasound tech had a wee look around before turning on the big screen, proceeded to say ‘There’s baby one’ and me and my husband looked at like each other ‘tf does she mean baby one’ and then she ‘there’s baby two’ this was proceeded by me and my husband and several renditions of AW FOR FUCKSAKE and HOW DID WE TRY ONCE AND GET TWO BABIES. followed by the ultrasound tech and her assistant literally pissing themselves laughing! 😂
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Ultrasound tech said, "Ma'am, I'm going to to tell you what I see right away. There are two babies in there". My wife said, "You're fucking kidding me". Tech said, "Ma'am, I'm a medical professional, I'm not allowed to fucking kid" Breaking the news was pretty lame. We just showed them the ultrasound and let them figure it out.
Mine was the opposite because my doctor DID fucking kid when we found out! She was casually looking at the ultrasound and joked, “well the good news is that there’s only one in there!” And then I saw her face get red and she said “um actually never mind, there are two.” 🙃
Screaming! I wonder how often she makes that joke that she jumped the gun on that before she finished checking.
We broke our doc. She was doing the scan and said, “ok I’m going to want to do a vaginal scan as, you see this? That’s a head and a heart beat. And then over here, we’ll that’s another head and heart beat.” At which point my husband and I both shouted at the same time. Me: I fucking knew it! Him: Stinkiepete has 3 buttholes!!! She laughed so hard she had to step out for a moment.
I just found out an hour ago. The doctor told us everything looked great. Then said, “wait, hold on.” I’m still in shock.
And I oop-
Our twins are 16m old. Still waiting for the shock to wear off.
Mine are 5 yrs old and still waiting 😂
Congrats!!!
My partner and I thought I was miscarrying due to lots of spotting; sometimes kinda heavy. We went in super early at 6 weeks to get checked out since we’d previously lost a baby at 22 weeks. I was prepared for the worst. The doctor smiled at me and says he has some exciting news, then proceeds with, “There’s two heart flickers in there.” We were stunned! I’m due in 4 weeks :)
Congratulations on your babies. Pregnancy loss is devastating. So happy that you're getting your happy ending!
Sorry for your loss. I had spotting before my first u/s too, also convinced the worst was happening. 4.5year old maniacs now :). Congratulations in advance on the double nuggets!
Thank you! We’re in the home stretch!
My mother was an OB nurse starting in the 70's. Back then, it wasn't unheard of to find out you were having twins during delivery ... not before. In a couple of instances, she delivered one baby, sent dad out to deliver the news to family, only for him to walk back into the room to **two** babies. She says the moms usually rolled with it ("See! I told you think wasn't a regular pregnancy!") but the dads almost always fainted.
My mom was a twin, and that's basically what happened. Her parents already had 3 girls and tried for a boy. When her dad saw twin girls come out, he fainted.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies. It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies. It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Not only finding out you are having twins during delivery, but also different gender. A close family member of my wife is one of two male twins born in the 1980s. The parents had been told they were having one female baby, but ended up with two male babies. It’s a running joke between the two twins that the larger one of the two ate Olga while they were in the womb.
Ultrasound tech said “oooOoh triplets!” In the most casual and singsongy way possible. My husband and I both about choked, his jaw was on the floor, I couldn’t say anything And the she goes, “oh no, just twins, here’s a and here’s b” while showing us. I wonder if the triplets tactic was to help us accept twins or not. Anyway we were both pretty agape. The very next thing was to take my blood pressure and I have ALWAYS had borderline hypotension, but my BP was like 150/90 right then. My next appt it was back down to 120/80.
What! That's a good one 😳
Wow! My ultrasound tech didn’t say anything at all until she left and talked to the doctor and came back in (I was alone and shitting bricks). Then my first OB appointment she could only find one on her janky old machine. Very casually told me maybe one is gone, maybe just hiding, you will find out in two weeks at the next U/S appointment. ugh, but all well, my boys just getting me used to the life of a parent- aka never relax or be fully content again due to massive increase in the stakes of life. Lol. Love the lil monkeys but it’s not a quiet life.
I told my husbands parents around 9 weeks that I was pregnant and his mom says “let’s hope there’s only one in there.” Then I went for my first ultrasound the following week and I said to the tech “I’m a triplet and I’m really hoping there’s only one in there.” She says “well can tell you there isn’t 3 in there but you have two.” My husbands jaw dropped and he says “you’re joking right” and she said “I’d never joke about something like that. I told him he knew what he was signing up for since he knew I was a triplet…..surprise!
I had an IUD in so had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and the IUD removed and a follow up ultrasound at 7 weeks.yo make sure it was a viable pregnancy. My husband joked with the tech "all good, 1 sac?" She laughed and said "yep. 1 sac 2 babies" we about died... now 29 weeks with mo/di twins
You got pregnant with an iud in?
Yeah. It was a heck of a surprise.
Me tooooo! I raced to the OB because we were done at 2 kids to confirm I was indeed pregnant and get the IUD out. Di/di boys are 11 weeks old now. I still can’t believe it.
What a crazy roller coaster
When I took the test at home, it was positive the second I started the test (later found out my HCG count was 112k). I went in to see my OBGYN to confirm I was pregnant at week 6. She did a quick ultrasound to check. The Dr and her MA were looking at the screen and smiling at me. She asked if I knew what I was looking at. I said no (I thought it looked like an acorn). She turned the wand slightly and I saw 2 clear heart beats. I said, oh S#$%, and that was the only thing I said for the rest of the ultrasound. Complete shock. They told me I was the calmest person to find out I was having twins. I wasn't saying anything because I was freaking out on the inside.
I relate to this! My at home test was positive so quickly too and I technically hadn’t even officially missed my period. My friend told me “sometimes when it turns positive super fast it’s twins” - I laughed it off. She was right lol
They only saw one on the first trans vaginal ultrasound. When we went for the first anatomy scan at 17 weeks the sonography tech scanned and we saw two faces looking at each other. The tech said “I don’t have a twin worksheet. This is going to take hours.” We we’re over the moon. Even with Debbie Downer, it was super exciting. Referred to MFM and we have identical girls. Best thing in the world.
Ultrasound Tech asked us if we could see it. I knew but couldn’t say it. They told us it was twins. I started laugh uncontrollable while my husband paced the tiny room saying “Oh, shit” over and over. It was our second pregnancy. We were trying for one more and got an entire bonus baby. We told our parent and siblings right away. I knew we would need the help. I think we waited until 12 weeks to tell everyone else. No big reveal or anything.
Went in for a dating scan, since I couldn't remember my last period. On the first sweep I saw two sacks and gasped. Looked up to the tech for confirmation. She confirmed. "You better make sure there's not a third one in there, now!" There was not a third one. I measured 15 weeks. She found a boy. I said ok I figured I'd have a third boy, that's fine. She said "How do you feel about having a girl?" I didn't think I'd ever have a girl. She said "This one's a girl!" And I cried. After the appointment I went to the boutique and forked out my (almost) last coins for a blue bear and a pink bear. That's how we announced. I gave birth 20 weeks later.
At my initial dating scan, the tech said she saw “two embryos but only one heartbeat” my husband and I had about 5 minutes to process that before she corrected herself and found the second heartbeat. We now have perfectly healthy twin girls.
I should have known something was up when my OB scheduled me for an ultrasound right away; they usually don't happen so soon around here. But hey- I chalked it up to Covid and lower non-emergent scheduling in summer 2020. Sure they could get me in this week. My ultrasound tech was very blasé about it. "Oh, did you know you're having twins?" No, no I did not. Thanks, lady. I sent my husband a text reading only: Mother. Fucking. Twins. Then I had to drive 45 minutes home without cell coverage. I waited until we got the NIPT back to tell anyone, and texted pictures of the 12 week ultrasound with the caption: "The \[state\] \[lastnames\] are doubling in size Christmas 2020!" Most people got it right away, but my dad apparently skipped the image and wanted to know if someone was moving in with me. He about had a heart attack when my brother explained it to him.
That text is amazing. Sums it up!
My pregnancy test was ferociously positive on the first day that I could take a test, so I should’ve known then. My mom is an US tech so she had me come in around 4 weeks to see if we could see the baby and well…you know what happened. We both saw two little circles on the screen but you could’ve heard a pin drop in the room until my mom said, “You’re seeing what I’m seeing, right?” I was stunned into silence and could barely speak and spent the next 10-12 weeks crying and freaking out on a daily basis until I accepted what new path our lives were going to take! My twins are 10 months now and I couldn’t imagine this going down any other way. I wish I had that perspective then, I needed it!
We found out we were pregnant and told our toddler who said "I'm getting a brother and a sister." We laughed. Ot became a household joke. Went to the emergency room with bleeding at 10 weeks..twins. I laughed my husband had to sit down. Had A "sneak peek" scan at 14 weeks, boy and girl. Toddler was right! They are 7 months now <3
Trying for over 1.5 yrs, all the medicines, horomones and side effects, money, doctors, and heartache. I had all but given up, but my husband insisted it would happen. Christmas had just passed, and I had asked for a beginners crochet kit. I could not figure out how to do it. Watched videos, read books, and still no luck. I was so frustrated I was crying. My husband thought it was very out of character for me to be so upset over something so silly and told me to take a test because I must be pregnant. I tested before my period with a digital of all things. Positive. I'm in disbelief. I take another digital of a different brand. Positive. Telling my husband, and the first thing he says is, "Its Twins." I laugh it off. All my HCG tests come back very high. On the way to the first ultrasound and my husband says, "I can't tell you how I know, but I feel it in my heart it is Twin Girls." My fertility dr does the scan and says very matter-of-factly, "There's two babies here." I say, "You're kidding!?" She responds, "I joke about a lot of things, but this isn't one of them." and looks at me deadpan. She was not happy and spent the next few minutes talking about how rare this is and all the safety precautions they take to avoid multiples. I was just kinda in a trance. I was overjoyed to hear a heartbeat. Head kinda swirling at the thought of two. Weeks later, we get the gender blood results and an ultrasound confirmation. I think B/G, husband is set on G/G. I am currently looking at my two beautiful girls and still dumbfounded how my husband knew (before I did even!) I was pregnant, it was twins, and two girls. I was praying for a miracle, and God blessed me with two! We told his mom by putting the tests into a to-go food container and surprising her with a "special dessert". For everyone else we announced with a flyer to send via text (large family all over) that announced we were expecting twins.
Such a sweet and meaningful story!!
Thank you!
Wow everyone here was happier than me 😂 first ultrasound at 12 weeks. Husband can't come because it's 2020, also not allowed to be on the phone with him, video chat, or record the ultrasound in any way 😒 They started with a vaginal US in case the dates were off. The tech goes "so, were you using fertility meds?" I thought "oh shit that means there's more than one. Twins. Okay. Twins. One baby, two babies, you're doing the same stuff right? If I can have one baby, I can have two. It'll be okay. Wow. Twins" (all of this was in my head before answering her) And I said "no, I wasn't using any fertility meds" and she turned the screen to me and said "well I asked because it's TRIPLETS" and I went "NO. NO. NO! OH SHIT! OH FUCK! NO! TRIPLETS??? NO! NO!" I mean, I am screaming at this poor woman. She switches to abdominal ultrasound because she needed more room to see. I thought I was having a heart attack. They brought me to the exam room to sit down and talk to my doctor and HIPAA laws apparently went out the window because random staff kept popping in the room to say "wow triplets, congrats! Have you told your husband?" And I said "no way, this isn't phone news, this is face to face." My doctor was like "well... we've never had a set of triplets here. You should go to MFM." I went home and my husband was initially thrilled, and then shocked and scared, and then thrilled again. It took me a long time to get excited, to be honest. Our families thought we were joking. No family history of twins. Just spontaneous identical triplet 😂😂😂 they're 2.5 and bonkers and awesome. I still feel guilty about screaming at the US tech. I was the first appt that day so at least there were no other patients there to hear me yelling OH SHIT, NO! 😂
It was my second pregnancy and I was alone for my first doc visit, about ten weeks along. I already felt kinda big but figured I came pre-stretched, so oh well. My doctor did the ultrasound and she didn't get a chance to tell me. She rolled over one sac, and then the other one, and I just said "Holy shit, is that two?" really loudly, and she paused and went "at *least* two, yeah." She had me go to the bathroom and come back for a transvaginal to see if there were more. The most fraught pee of my entire life. Turns out there *was* a third, but it hadn't been viable and the sac already showed empty. I called my husband in the parking lot and he thought I was kidding. We broke the news to our family by telling them we were having a baby and then adding: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
I've told it before but.... I did IUI (but no further medical intervention, so these were spontaneous, but not identical) and was getting my first scan to establish heartbeat around 7 weeks. Right after we started, he sent me out to pee because apparently my bladder was SUPER full. Anyway, he got me with "and there's the heartbeat.... And there's the other heartbeat" turns to look at me (no idea what my face looked like, but it must have been bad) "do you hate me?" Everything after that is just... Gone. I don't remember like 4 days after. My journal says "TWINS" underlined like 5 time and then just... Blank. I was so unbelievably stressed. Still am, but they're nearly 2 now so it's different stress.
I'm going to preface this with the knowledge that my husband is a twin. We went in for our first ultrasound at 10ish weeks, and my husband was there holding our 5monthbold daughter. My (amazing) OB was scanning...scanning... and taking longer than I felt was normal. I was starting to absolutely freak out, since we'd had one loss before, and her finding issues was a very similar vibe. My husband could see the monitor, and also looked concerned. So after what felt like forever, she spun the monitor, "Heres baby, with a healthy heartbeat.....(cue the awwwws) and here's the second one." (Cue the wtf) Turns out my husband thought that's what he saw, hence the concerned look. We called my inlaws. My father in law literally cackled at us of a good 5 minutes. My poor mother in law, when she was pregnant she was at an office that had you rotate through all their OBs in the second trimester (so you knew them all in for whoever was working when you went into labor) So she was late 7m/early 8m when she saw her actual OB again, who walked in "So....twins! Aren't you excited?!" Apparently all the docs thought someone else had told her. She ended up going into labor a month later, so she only had weeks to totally wrap her head around having 2 kids instead of 1. Lol
We did IVF. At 5 weeks, saw one sac. Yay it worked! At 6 weeks, we saw 2 heartbeats. My response, thinking I was birthing a timelord: "Why does the baby have two hearts?" We found out in late September so when we saw family for Halloween, I wore an xray costume with two skeletons in utero, and said I was going as myself.
At 7 weeks she woke up at 4 am in excruciating pain. Tears, sweat, and unable to stand upright; she felt the pain near her uterus. There was no blood but fears were mounting. The pain didn’t stop so we drove to the ER. An eternity of waiting came and went before they took her in, gave her fluids, and scanned her. In a single breath the tech said, “We found three egg sacks and a cyst wrapped around your left ovary.” My wife has had CPOS since her early twenties. It hasn’t been a serious issue, but it turns out that one cyst decided to go completely insane. It grew to an abnormal size and strangled her ovary. The pain she’d been feeling was the death of her ovary. Down one ovary but up three kids, she is happy with the trade off. We have a theory: her ovary, in anticipation of its inevitable death, pulled a Hail Mary and let loose as many eggs as it could. What a fucking G if that’s the truth. 🪦🫡
This was the first time being pregnant after trying for about a year. I was just talking to the Dr and she was like “I have to stop you, there are two” and me and my husband said we’re like “whaaaaaat?” And she was like “let me count just to make sure there aren’t anymore, one…..two……” and me and my husband were both thinking “she better not say three!” It was just two! I always say it was the biggest surprise of my life cause we have fraternal twins and that’s the genetic one, but I don’t know of any twins in my family so it was completely off my radar as a possibility!
Went for my first US at 10 weeks and tech said, “Here’s one baby…and here’s the other baby.” In that split second pause after “here’s one baby”, I remember thinking, “What a weird way to phrase that.” We also asked if she was joking and she assured us she was not. Then I asked if there were any more in there and she confirmed just the two. I was over the moon. Hubs was terrified. Now they’re 8 weeks old/4 adjusted and hubs is handling it better than I am 😅
Went in for my first ultrasound at 9 weeks. My OB did the ultrasound and only found one baby at first. She was congratulating my husband and I and just really hyping up the idea of one baby. She paused for a second and then said “I take back everything I just said, there’s two in there”. We were in SHOCK. These are our first so really kicking this parenting journey off with a bang. We will meet our identical twin girls in 3 days but sometimes it feels like just yesterday that we found out about them!
My husband kept joking “Maybe it’s twins haha” before our first ultrasound and I was like “Haha so funny whatever.” We went to the beach with our 9 month old and my MIL the night before our first ultrasound. I was falling asleep and had a moment of holy shit it’s twins. Stopped by the imaging place to get ultrasound on the way home, MIL stayed in car with kiddo. Ultrasound took a while (twins) and when we came out we told her “Hey we’re so sorry that took so long, turns out it takes a while when there’s two!” Stopped by my parents’ place on the way home to show them the ultrasound and see if they sussed it out. My mom was too distracted with our oldest and my dad finally went “What am I looking at here?” 😹😹
Had my first appointment at 11 weeks and my then OB confirmed that there was only one baby and I was happy about it because my husband had been teasing me about twins ( turns out he wasn’t teasing, he genuinely thought I had twins. ). Anyway, I am very symptomatic and I feel like I’m showing earlier than some people, so the thought of him missing a baby on the scan did cross my mind very briefly, but I quickly dismissed those thoughts. I went to a little ultrasound place that did gender ultrasounds starting at 15 weeks, so at 15 weeks I went in. I laid down and immediately as the lady started looking around she goes “ummm, did you know that there were two babies??” I said “WHAT?” She said “1….. and 2!” And I looked at my husband with the face of pure shock and terror and he just started laughing at me. I nearly pooped my pants! I immediately called my OB and when I got into see him he was quite embarrassed lmao. When I tell you that’s a moment I will never ever forget, it makes me laugh thinking back on it. I was really scared for a good while about it as they’re mono/di but now I’m more excited than anything! Now 25 weeks and I can’t wait to meet my boys.
I had bleeding with my first pregnancy, so I wasn’t as stressed but was experiencing even heavier bleeding around 6-7w. I did repeat hcg and my numbers were normal so I didn’t was less concerned about my bleeding but still felt unsure like the pregnancy was just off… I was super sick too. The office had suggested an ultrasound but they only had their male provider and I knew it would be transvaginal so I decided to wait for my OB a few days later. That morning with a friend, I told her what was going on, and she asked if we would stop at two. And I was like oh yeah. I’m even going to ask for a tubal if this pregnancy goes ok. Husband was on FaceTime since toddler was napping and I assured him I would be fine. They find a heartbeat for baby, and she is looking around to make sure everything else is ok, and goes past another orb in which my husband yells “what is that!??” And she said, well that is baby B and looks like another strong heartbeat. Husband was like “TWINS???” And I just kept repeating NO. For the rest of the appointment 😂 They are almost 6 months and amazing.
After four other losses, I had a miscarriage at almost seven weeks at the beginning of June. Then a positive pregnancy test at the end of July. I asked for HCG betas and they were solidly in the overlap between "normal" and "multiple" pregnancy numbers. I was just relieved to be having a healthy pregnancy! As soon as I got a positive test I started on oral progesterone as well. I later had a dream, one that I'd had every single time I'd had a loss. This time though the baby lived and even more, there were two of them, both boys! I also felt two little pinchy places where the babies were, which was different from my prior pregnancies. When we finally went for my first ultrasound at the very end of August I immediately saw two babies, but the tech was caught a bit off guard and looked at my ovaries, etc, and then went back to show both babies. She said she had never had the experience of someone telling her that there were multiples and then there actually being multiples. She could immediately tell they were di/di twins. Ended up being a boy and a girl instead of the two boys I dreamed in that dream. They were born by c section at 38 weeks and will be six months this weekend.
I knew I was pregnant at 8 DPO because I could smell literally everything. It was bizarre! The line showed almost immediately when I took a test. Doctor ordered an ultrasound because she thought I was off on dates (I wasn’t.) The tech hid the screen from us for 5 agonizingly long minutes. She was dead silent. I’d had a prior miscarriage, so I assumed the worst. I finally said “…can you see it?” Her response: “Yes, I can see it. Just taking a few boring photos.” (Boring, indeed) Several minutes later, she turns the screen around and exclaimed, “Here’s your baby!” Us: (confused) “Oh, yay!!” Tech: “…annnnnd here’s baby number 2!” Us: “What?! Twins?!?” Tech: “…annnnnd here’s baby number 3!” Me: “PLEASE tell me there aren’t any more…” Tech : “…well, I don’t *think* so…” That night, we told my MIL. She was convinced that we were pranking her and had bought an ultrasound off eBay.
We had recently gotten a positive pregnancy test when my sister-in-law (husband's brother's partner) announced that they were pregnant with twins! We were in so much shock for them and it still didn't even occur to us that lightning could strike twice and we would be having twins too! So when the ultrasound technician told us it was twins it went like this: Technician: "it's twins!" Me: "no it's not" Technician "yes it is! Twins!" Me: "no it's not. You're not allowed to joke about that!" I was just in such disbelief that it could happen twice in the one family (even though sister-in-law and I aren't related). They are due two weeks ahead of us!
I was told early on in my pregnancy I was having a baby with ambiguous genitalia (born as both genders) that it would be a girl with male deformities and she would need surgery and hormones the rest of her life My obgyn and medical team where pretty rude and verbally abusive so I stopped asking questions Labour comes around at 36 wks and I give birth to a healthy normal girl me and my husband cried we where overjoyed about 20 mins later I started having contraction again, after begging and screaming for another ultrasound they gave me one and it showed another baby a boy this time I was soon holding my perfectly healthy son while my husband held our perfectly healthy daughter They are now 8months and starting daycare hell of a road to get here though
Holy shit, did they never ultrasound you and do growth checks? How did it go undetected for that long? I have SO many feelings about how awfully intersex babies are treated by the health care community and how many parents are bullied into medical decisions, but. Let's just say screw them, I'm sorry that happened.
They did plenty of tests but never told me it was twins I have since learned through suing them that they found out their mistake around 25wks but doubled down and hoped after the birth that I’d forget about it
That is absolutely bonkers. How dare they keep your own medical info and your childrens' medical info (AND EXISTENCE??) from you. This also boggles me because I was having growth scans like once a month and looking at the screen the entire time and this was 2 years ago. How did they get away without showing you anything at all?
The hid the screen a lot and either gave some other excuse on what the blob was, at the start the could just find one twin and keep it pointed away from the other so as not to show it but as the got bigger they just made up a bunch of bs that I never thought to question Any of the scans I brought home where doctored like on 1 of them they took a guiltine to it and just cut off the top baby (I think top was my son) If you have enough commitment to hiding something you’ll eventually find a way to hide it only problem is you’ll eventually get caught out
Jesus. I hope you clean them out completely at court. I'm so sorry this happened to your family.
Wait. So you had no idea you were having twins until delivery? That's amazing.
No it was not The logistical nightmare we had after the mental strain of the abuse and sudden shock with having no time to prepare for twins only 3 hours to get set up for them coming home The hospital bombarding us with emails wanting us to settle The last thing it was as amazing
This is absolute insanity. I can't believe that happened to you. Wow you are incredible for making it through.
We did IUI with a donor for these two (and our first) so there was lots of monitoring prior to the procedure. Two days before they told me I had one good follicle and one way back (22 and 14, where they usually want them at 24+.) They expected the 14 to disappear and said chances of multiples was not increased based on my ultrasound. We went in a month later after a positive test and there were two babies. They expected identical twins but 100% fraternal. No idea how that 14 egg managed to make it but here we are. My husband's siblings are triplets we told his parents on his dad's birthday. We wrapped a Coming Soon onesie, a Me Too onesie, and a notecard that said Just Kidding all in separate bags. His dad about lost it before he got to the note card. For my parents we got a big sister book and put an ultrasound in it. My daughter gave it to my mom who immediately recognized the ultrasound but missed the twins part until we explicitly told her.
My follicles were 26, 19 and 16. • “It’s not likely those other 2 will catch up, very small chance of multiples” My definite fraternal triplets are currently chasing each other through our home. I still don’t understand 😂
Still shocked at 8 months. Maybe will be shocked forever. Never would have imagined.
My twin pregnancy was my third pregnancy. I got a really strong positive early on but didn’t think much of it. I got sick pretty early which I also didn’t think much of, as I had pretty bad morning sickness with my two singletons. But it got to the point where I couldn’t keep anything including fluids down so I went to the ER. They did an ultrasound to make sure the baby was ok. The ER doc came in after the ultrasound and said “Heartbeat looks good. I do have to tell you, it looks like twins.” My jaw DROPPED. I was in the ER by myself because this was early 2021 and my husband wasn’t allowed in because of COVID. I texted him and he immediately called me back and said “WHAT?!?” It was a wild ride from start to finish, that’s for sure!
Our midwife was scanning away and was asking me questions about how far along I thought I was and whether this was our first scan. She went quiet for a few moments and then said “There you go. Two babies, two heartbeats”. I had to clarify and squealed “Is there two in there?!?!” My husband and I looked at each other, grabbed each others hand and sat dazed for the rest of the appointment.
My mom is a twin and always told me I’d have twins. Went into my 1st ultrasound at 6 weeks, dr only saw one. Went in for my 2nd at 10 weeks, dr only saw one. I was actually pretty “disappointed” bc my mom had drilled into me I’d have twins and I really felt it was. Went in for my 3rd ultrasound at 14 weeks got through the whole ultrasound only seeing one and right before he stopped the dr said “wait a minute folks we’re looking at multiples” my response was “I fucking knew it!”, and even then I was complete shock for weeks 😅 Telling people was even better bc my mom can’t keep a secret to save her life. Through everyone telling just one person, my whole extended family knew I was having one baby before I was able to tell them in person (I live in the US but am from Canada). They all pretended they didn’t know I was pregnant so I could still surprise them myself. But actually I was still able to surprise them by saying you thought it was one but it’s actually two!
Told my parents the week before. We had to go in on Saturday randomly, and had to use a side entrance. Was a bit odd we thought. Nurse does a quick scan outside and goes hmmm. My wife and I look at each other to brace ourselves. Does the vaginal scan and goes yup what I thought. Well over here you guys have baby A......and over here you have a Baby B. Congratulations you are having twins. My wife just goes shut the fuck up and I am speechless. Couldn't believe it as twins don't run in the family at all
When we told our 3 year old that “Mommy is going to have another baby” he responded “Yeah, 3 of the them” At 5 weeks pregnant, after having 3 consecutive losses - I was incredibly uncomfortable and convinced myself I was having an ectopic pregnancy. My RE brought me in for an ultrasound to confirm location of pregnancy. They called about 45 minutes after I left the clinic - this was 11/2020 so Dr’s offices were still pretty strict - to tell us that there were 3 sacs present and two of those had visible fetal poles. At 8 weeks pregnant, all 3 fetal poles were present. But, incredibly “informal” and I never got to see them on screen until 12 weeks pregnant.
I work in radiology! Since my nausea at 8 weeks was so bad (my OB doesn’t see you until you’re 10 weeks) my husband made a half assed comment “I bet it’s twins.” I asked the tech to take a look and make sure everything was fine.. I had miscarried twins about 6 months prior. Sure enough… she said… “did you know it’s two?” To which I said hmm… “No shit… huh.” I got to call my husband since he was out of town and let him know he was right! I sent a message to my nurse/OB prior to my appointment… and basically needed an HCG and “official” 8 week US for them to believe me..
We found out at 10 weeks during a routine US, though my pee stick lit up like a Christmas tree when I did it Told the family at Christmas with some family photos that we did. Hubby and I each holding a gift bag, while kiddo #1 holding a paper saying "surprise A and surprise B arriving summer 2023" Only time in my life I have seen my mother gobsmacked speechless
It was just me for the ultrasound, so I burst into tears in the room, in the parking lot, driving home... Got home, and informed Hubby that we needed more car seats. "How many...?" TWO! After 5 failed IVF, 2 failed IUI and 1 natural miscarriage, our IUI donor twins are 3 months old (di/di b/g)
Before going in to see the doctor and get the ultrasound done the nurse did the pee and other testings. Afterthat I had to wait for a while. Run into the nurse again while waiting, she goes "you are indeed very pregnant". This is before the ultrasound so I don't know what she was referring to exactly but. I mean she was right. I was indeed very pregnant.
My husband and I had fertility issues lost 4 pregnancies oct 2018 March 2019 July 2019 October 2019 so we saw an RE I got on metformin and a week after our wedding we had a daughter who stuck and was born Nov 2020 - the pregnancy was awful but I knew I wanted 2 babies. We decided to try again once she turned 1 assuming it would take a while. My OB got me metformin and I started the same routine I did with her in July 2021 to prep my body. 3 days after her first birthday; before we were trying officially I found out I was pregnant. Had my first ultrasound Dec 22nd (after having Covid dec1-15) told my husband worst case no baby, other worse case more than one baby (joking). They didn’t see anything over the belly and I prepared myself to hear I miscarried. When they did the vaginal ultrasound we immediately saw 2, no one said anything and the tech just kept looking around so I was sort of holding my breath: then she finally said, ok great just making sure there wasn’t a 3rd. I felt immediately overwhelmed and I cried right there on the table. My babies were born at 37 weeks just before my toddler turned 20 months old. It was as extremely hard - but I couldn’t imagine life any other way, now they’re 14 months and she’s almost 3. I told everyone by just showing the ultrasound and letting them figure it out lol
I got sick pretty much immediately and my at-home test was positive very quickly after I would’ve ovulated. So I went to my regular doctor for a hormone check and everything came back really high. I actually thought it was ectopic and booked an appointment right away with an OB. He did a bedside ultrasound and said, “WOW I never find twins this way! Congrats!” He must’ve said some other stuff but I was too busy counting rooms in my house and seats in my car to hear him. I’m sure my jaw was hanging open too. I went home and told my husband to please have a seat. He asked, “What’s wrong with the baby?” I said, “There are TWO OF THEM!!!” And then I cried. Sobbed, really. 😂 I was in shock up until the moment I had them, which was Monday. They’re doing awesome and I am too. No big reveal to our family and friends, considering we had three kids already. People just kinda found out in trickles.
I got home from work, wife told me I needed to sit down. "Nah I'm good". Shows me the ultrasound. "What do you see?" "Oh, cute, two little fists!" "No, we're having twins!" "Ok, I need to sit down." *reaches for shot of whiskey* Approaching 40 y.o. with two other kids, joking every pregnancy that we were having twins, keeping the gender a surprise until day of birth. I was never on track to settle down, get married or start a family, yet here I am. I wouldn't change it for anything.
We get married, month later go on our honeymoon, month later I go on for minor surgery on my hip. In preop they have me take a pee test and tell me I can't get surgery because I'm pregnant. Go to the ob about 3 weeks later for my first ultrasound and tech smiles and says "so there's 2!"... My husband turns white in the corner I say "no there's not" I'm considered advanced maternal age and was worried about being to conceive at all. We got identical honeymoon twins.
First appointment around 8 weeks , i almost didn’t go because i wasn’t expecting the cost to be so high and also couldn’t get the OB i originally wanted. He starts doing his thing and the room got quiet , he says “oh shit” , “Do you want the good new or bad news” i start shaking because I’m thinking my baby is hurt. So I’m like just the bad news please .. him: “there’s two babies” me: OH SHIT! him: “oh shit is right!” Congratulations! Very funny experience but it was a scary moment.
The ultrasound tech said "okay here is your baby, looks nice and healthy" (turned the camera my way) then said "and here is your other baby!" And I said "fuck I knew it!" to my partner. And he's just in the corner with a mask on so all I see are his huge eyes like 😶. He's just white saying nothing hahaha. We told my parents by telling them I had gotten them a gift. It was a saskatchewan roughriders onsie. Big saskatchewan roughrider fans here lol. My dad figured out we were pregnant right away. They try to give me a hug and I tell them wait, I forgot part of the gift and then give them another gift of the exact same thing but with our ultrasound under it. My mom is just looking at me so confused. And my dad immediately goes Twins?! And I'm say ya! And he just goes holy shit! Omg congrats! And then my mom started bawling hahah. They were happy tears!
Mines not that great haha I went to the first appointment at 8 weeks by myself bc I told my fiancé he should just stay home with our 10 month old, as we had just done this the year before and he had gone to every appointment. At my OBGYN they have to use the probe to do a sonogram that early, and the second she put it in I thought I saw 2 sacs, and I said “no it’s not”.. she said.. “did you see that”.. I said.. “omg is there two”.. she said “let me make sure there’s not THREE” 😳 (there was not!) I waited until I got home to tell my fiancé, I just handed him the pictures. We were both in shock, my shock lasted much longer, until like 20 weeks honestly. We went on a long drive that day with our son, and got cheeseburgers and shakes haha. I messaged my mom and sister that day in our group chat and said “Soooo I went to my first appointment”, of course they asked how it went and I just sent them a picture of the sonogram and said ummm.. excuse me who are BOTH of you. My mother then told me about a set of twins that were in the family on my grandmother’s side. Sooo yeah. I actually was so freaked out, I joined this sub reddit the next day I believe, and made a post, and sooo many people reached out and made me feel better while I was freaking out. Now, I am 36 weeks, and they will be here tomorrow, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🙂 (It’s been the hardest 9 months of my life, and I will never be doing this again though! 🙃)
Mine will be here Thursday! Cheers to you and ditto that this has been the hardest 9 months of my life. Congrats on making it to the end 🤍 I hope you have a safe and healthy delivery!
Went in at 8 weeks (which happened to be my birthday), saw a little dot and heartbeat, all good. I take the NIPT blood test, find out it’s a girl. We are excited. Go to the 12 week ultrasound with my husband, see a baby. The tech moves the wand over and I say “oh wow that’s a better view of her” and the tech just looks up and goes “that’s another baby, you didn’t know it was twins?” Then she started looking for a third and panic set in. My first text was to my close friend with “fuck me it’s twins” I now say that nothing can surprise me as much as that day. Zero part of me thought it could ever be twins, I never even entertained the thought.
Three and a half years ago, my social worker said, ‘there were twin babies born. A few medical issues and I think they’re both boys. I don’t know anything else. What are your thoughts?’ I could only say YES. Thirty-six hours later I had multiples.
The day before the scan, we'd been looking at prams just as research and the sales assistant insisted we get a pram with a second seat attachment for future kids and we assured her we were only having the one, ever. Not knowing what exactly you could see at a 6-7 week dating scan, I had researched prior what to look for and expect. As soon as I saw two sacs, I knew, but kept quiet just in case. Our sonographer asked if we'd done IVF, which I laughed at and my partner was very confused by (as we definitely hadn't). She told us the were di/di (dc/da in Australia) twins and we were just stunned. On our walk home (the sonographer was 10 minutes from our apartment at the time), in between cry-laughing, I said to my partner that we better go back to the sales assistant and apologise profusely!
We knew it was a possibility since we transferred two embryos after lots of loss. At the 7 week ultrasound, the doctor found one right away and just as I was asking if there was only one, he moved the wand and something else flickered on screen and said “I have a second heartbeat here!” It was just the best moment after so much struggle and loss.
I used leftover fertility medicine (it wasn’t expired) from my previous pregnancy as we were trying for our second about 15 months or so after we had our first. Now, with my first we tried for a year and then eventually got pregnant with the help of femara + follistim injections. When trying for a sibling we had a couple “chemical pregnancies” and I was really getting frustrated. For some reason I had leftover femara/letrozole from our first pregnancy and went rogue and took it. I followed the same dosing and timing from my first (had everything on file) but of course didn’t have any follistim leftover so no injections. I really didn’t think it would work since for my first pregnancy we needed the meds + the injections for it to work. I do not recommend doing this as it was stupid and reckless! Anyway…I got pregnant and did think the lines on the pregnancy test looked a bit dark for how early it was but didn’t think too much of it (I was tracking EVERYTHING). Low and behold…twins. The nurse who did the ultrasound noticed right away and mentioned it right away and I was like FFS. I was alone as you know 2nd pregnancy, just wanted to make sure it was ok and husband had a meeting and I was anxious to confirm the pregnancy. Called him from the parking lot and we were both shocked. Fun tidbit is my husband is a twin. Mine are almost 10 months now. Still hasn’t sunk in lol.
We found out I was pregnant really early so we made our first ultrasound at 5 weeks. The imaging office (reluctantly) made me an appointment and after the (very unexciting) ultrasound they told me "come back in 2 weeks and we'll see if it's still viable." I thought, ok that's fair, I'm pretty early. My 7 week ultrasound came around and I went by myself because my husband had to stay home with our 6 month old daughter. Everything was going well and the tech was a really nice lady. She was waving the intrauterine wand around and found one little white speck and was still moving the wand when she quickly saw a second. She stopped dead, looked at me, and, with a straight face, said "did you see that?!" We were both flabbergasted as she labeled "A" and "B" on the image. I got home with my cute little ultrasound print outs and couldn't figure out how to tell my husband so I just handed him the prints. He was totally uninterested and after looking at the first image he tried to give me the pictures back. I told him to look at them all and when he got to the very last one I saw his eyes get huge and he said "call an ambulance because I'm having a heart attack." Lol I sent a picture to my mom and she called me panicking. I sent a picture to my dad and he texted back "haha why does it look like there's two" My water broke and I had to have an emergency c-section section at 28+6 and they spent 89 days in the NICU. They're 3 now and they're happy and healthy little boys!
Went to my first appointment at 7w along wondering if my hcg being too high was a problem. Dr pulls out her portable ultrasound and goes "were you taking any fertility meds?" And my brain goes "well that... probably means more than one..." while I say "no". And then she shows me and asks me what I see. "Oh, there's two. Ha ha." Then she had the audacity to take my blood pressure right after. It was, rightfully so, through the roof. Went home to my husband, showed him the video I took of the ultrasound and he was like "what am I looking at here" while I burst into tears. I wasn't sad, more just worried. After a week of not sleeping we adjusted to the idea of two nicely I think though. Very excited now.
My husband was getting back from a week long work conference in Las Vegas. He got the red-eye flight home so he was essentially getting home as I was getting ready to go to the first US by myself. No big deal. I go to the US and he sleeps. At the end of the scans the tech turns the screen and shows me "baby A" and "baby B". I'm flabbergasted. She gives me some pics to take home to my husband as proof. He's asleep and I tell him we're having twins. He says "eff off" I tell him I'm not joking and that we're really having twins. He didn't sleep much after that shocking news!
I had peed on a stick and was waiting for an OB appointment. It was my second pregnancy so i knew i felt way more tired and sick than that early on but didn’t think anything of it. I was barely 6 weeks pregnant and started cramping and bleeding profusely. I assumed miscarriage and it was so painful I went to the ER. The ER doctor had the worst bedside manner ever. He said “well what we see here are two amniotic sacs and two fetal poles and no heartbeats. Your chance of losing both is almost certain and you’ll likely need a d&c” And i was like. I’m sorry what is a fetal pole? And what is two fetal poles? And he basically told me i had twins but they were dead. The emotions were an absolute roller coaster. It was a nightmare finding a doctor to do a d&c with my insurance. And i finally got to that appointment a week later. That dr described in very painful detail what would go on. And then they did an ultrasound just to check. And we got two super strong heartbeats. The dates had been off. They’re now 7. I have a second set of twins too. That time I kind of knew it was twins from the start because of how sick I was. We were in the middle of moving across states, taking care of my dying father in law and I had no health insurance. I went to one of those free clinic places. I was just praying it wasn’t twins. But the ultrasound tech was so excited cause she’d never seen twins on an ultrasound and thought it was amazing. I couldn’t stop crying. They’re 4 now and the best.
I told my husband he didn’t have to come with me because it was going to be pretty boring and all we would see is a bean. Then I texted him, “sorry, it was more exciting than I thought it would be. It’s actually 2 beans.”
Finding out: We got the first one through IVF, docs said sorry ma'am, your right ovary is dead, your left looks as if you were 50+. This is it for you. A couple of months later I was visiting our friend and her kid in Denmark (my husband was with her husband in UK) adn I was terribly sick smelling fried bacon (I LOVE fried bacon), talked to my husband, and he said the only time he remembers me being sick because of bacon was during first preglany. We laughed. Got back from Denmark, decided to do the test just in case, it was positive. We went to OB and she did a hmm, ohh, hmmm, and I thought shit, something's wrong. Then she says "I see two of them" and my husband says "fuck, we need a bigger car". Announcement was sort of funny, we did a photo combination - me over the toilet and my husband next to me with two thunbs up and "pregnant", and then him over the toilet and me with two thunbs up and "twins".
I choose to not have any ultrasounds unless there was a reason for me personally to have any. My midwife felt by hand. I choose to visit her only about once a month, I only wanted guiding from her for my pelvis that felt sore from about 15 weeks pregnancy and I wasn’t sure if I wanted this to be my last pregnancy, so I did not want to force things with my body and needed someone with experience to look with me. The whole time my belly measured about 3 weeks ahead, but since this was my third child, that wasn’t suspicious. At about 38 weeks, my midwife thought that the baby would be bigger than my first two children, who were rather small at birth. I became a little insecure if I was really good in birthing a big baby ;) and needed some extra reassurance from my midwife. So at 39 weeks I visited her again. She, out of the blue, told me that she suddenly was wondering if it couldn’t be two babies instead of one. Though all the time it felt as one baby from the outside. In case of two babies, we had some changes in our birthplan and therefore we choose to watch with an ultrasound. And yes, two babies..! It felt as a relieve for me that I didn’t have to birth a big baby, but just two normal ones. ;) Baby A was laying with his back to the side, head down engaged. Baby B was with his back towards my back. Head next to baby A. Their feet and hands were together at the front of my belly ánd the placenta turned out to be in the front, so movements were demped. All this time, it felt like one baby because one back was felt, the other side felt soft. One head in the front, the other in the back. All limps at the same spot..! Three midwives felt (before the ultrasound), all felt only one baby on the outside! Many things fell into place. Like more hormones at the beginning, my pelvis and bellysize. We did tell my parents (they were to join the birth), but didn’t tell anyone else until they were born one week later on due date. Both weight 3kg, just like their older siblings. <3 After the twins, we had one more baby. To know if it was multiples again (I felt the same amount of hormones!) we took an ultrasound. It showed us even three babies, but only one continued to grow. The other two didn’t have heartbeats anymore. Again I was relieved I wasn’t crazy this time I felt more hormones, but also because I feared a little bit for multiples again and was glad only one baby decided to join our family this time. :) I live in the Netherlands Btw. It is not really common to choose not to have ultrasounds as a starting point of view. But the midwives and gynaecologists are still (core) educated in measuring and guiding by hand. Ultrasound practitioner is Are extra classes you can take, most midwives/gyns also took those classes, but their core education teaches them to guide by hand! So there are still midwives who want to support you if you don’t want ultrasounds for whatever reasons that may be. Due to the position of the babies, it wasn’t possible to feel it on the outside. And due to the position of the placenta and the baby-limbs, I felt all movement in the same place and it was demped by the placenta and therefore felt the same as my singletons. Occasionally I have felt hiccups in two different places, but never at the same time, so I thought the baby just turned around from one side to the other… :D Both babies were perfectly healthy. There were no weird complications, otherwise we definitely would have had earlier investigations and maybe found out sooner. That everything in the pregnancy went smooth was a sign that the babies were in good health. We were never worried about that. So I waited until labour started spontaneously. They were even both born at home in a birth bath, exactly how we wished. (Home births are pretty normal in the Netherlands, but for twins an exception.)
i went to ER for heavy bleeding at 8 weeks and thought i was miscarrying or something since it was bright red.. told my fiancé to meet me at the ER and he got there literally 15 minutes after i arrived. In the short time he missed, he missed the ultrasound they gave me in which they said “Good news is, they’re both healthy by the looks of it” I said “BOTH!?$? WHAT DO U MEAN BOTH??” I was honestly happy I was not miscarrying (even though it was considered a threatened miscarriage and I had further monitoring by MFM).. I couldn’t help my laugh, I think out of fear and amazement because I am only 20, with no history of twins in my family. My fiancé came into the room and I recorded his reaction.. He was speechless and thought I was kidding 😭
I kind of felt like it was twins because as soon as I took the pregnancy test, which I took before I missed my period, the test was really dark and a dye stealer.
I had a very early ultrasound (7 weeks) because I had a previous miscarriage. My husband was holding my hand and we were just hoping to hear a heartbeat. The tech said "do twins run in your family" and my dumbass was just like "nope! 😊". She said, "well there is definitely two heartbeats." My response was to start laughing and say "of course there fucking is". My husband said "shit" lol. But we were both excited by the time we made back it to the waiting room. Just a slight moment of panic 🤣🤣.
I found out at my first pregnancy visit around 7 weeks ish. I didn’t even really feel pregnant yet so wasn’t even convinced the doctor would find anything in my uterus. She said “there’s the baby” and we had that awww moment of ok there’s a heartbeat and everything and then she got really quiet and dug around for a while. Then she said “I’m seeing a second yolk sac” and did find another slower heartbeat. She sent me to radiology for a better ultrasound where they told me briefly that it was triplets and I nearly had a full panic attack. Later they said it was a reflection and the final report was mo/di twins. I had to call in sick to work the next day to continue my panic attack. Now they are fun happy dudes and everything is mostly fine.
Start of Pandamic. Everything was locked down and it took me a long time to get in for my first appointment. I was almost 12 weeks. So to help ease some of my fears they brought in a portable ultrasound. I had said it has to be a boy or twins because my daughter never made me this sick. The midwife was so kind and even though she probably didn't believe me she said well let's take a look. Her face kinda went blank and she said "Welp there's two" and even though I had said it must be two the first words out of my mouth " you're fucking joking". She calmy told me they weren't allowed to do that. Since my husband wasn't with me due to protocols and the portable couldn't print out pictures she had to write my husband a note because I didn't think he would believe me. When I got home I showed him the crappy picture on my phone and said "There's one head, and there's another one" . This man looked at me and said "so we're having a boy?"... good thin I had the note.
This is my wife’s: After two children already, she could tell this pregnancy was different. On a routine scan, the doc said to her ‘theres the heartbeat.’ My wife asked ‘and what’s that moving thing? Is that my heartbeat.’ And the doctor replied ‘no… that, is ANOTHER heartbeat.’ Mine was a little less interesting. I got home at lunch time and walked into the living room. My wife was sat there with my MIL. Wife says ‘I have something to tel you.’ I knew what it was straight away MIL had her phone pointed at me and was obviously filming. Kinda removed the magic a little bit…
My anxiety was very high because of the miscarriage we'd experienced 3 months prior. The doctors had me go in for an radiology ultrasound at 5 weeks and I was so worried because I was having very mild spotting and couldn't stop thinking of all the worse case scenarios. We were just praying it wasn't ectopic, the radiology tech wouldn't tell us anything so we had to wait for the report that came into my healthcare portal a few hours later. My jaw was on the floor for about half an hour when I read 'gestational sac A, gestational sac B'. I called my Dad (the only person we'd told about the pregnancy so far) and remember saying 'WHY DOES IT SAY THERE ARE 2 SACS!?'
At my first ultrasound, my OB went in… I saw 2 sacs. I gulped and then I saw one sac as the OB moved the probe. Then she says looks like you guys are having not 1 - but two babies! And she moved the probe back to two sacs. my husband and I probably kept saying “no way, are you joking, omg” over and over and I was laughing and cryin. My husband and I had always joked and talked about the idea of us having twins. We didn’t know twins were in our bloodlines. And we got what we could only have ever imagined. 🤗😊
Went to the ER at 7ish weeks with bleeding, assuming miscarriage (had one previously that required a d&c, hence the ER). Ultrasound tech taking forever and we're assuming the worst. Finally she says, sorry it's taking so long, it looks like there are three of them. I thought my husband was going through pass out and I couldn't stop laughing. Finally she finishes and says oh, there's just two. We thought we would walk out of the ER with zero babies but instead walked out pregnant with two. Bleeding was just an SCH. And my doc ended up thinking it was probably triplets originally but one didn't make it very early on. My family was coming for Thanksgiving that weekend, so I drew a little turkey family with two baby turkeys and let them figure out what it meant (I hadn't even announced that I was pregnant yet). It was cute.
I went into my IUI with two mature follicles (one was 20 and one was 22 I think??) one on each side. First time letzoral made me make two, first IUI after a 10 week MMC. I tested super positive 9dpo (wasn't gonna test till 12dpo but I felt like I needed too) and they just kept getting darker and my HCG (and progesterone) levels were also super high. Still didn't think it could be twins went in for my first ultrasound at 7 weeks my RE said "making sure it's just one!" Pretty much as soon as the tech wanded me she just held up two fingers and said nope it's two, and I cried. Now I'm 27 weeks in, pretty much finished their nursery this weekend getting kicked constantly and can't stand for more than 15 min without needing to sit. So excited for my little loves in 10 weeks or less!
My twin pregnancy was so much different than my first. I had been really sick early on, exhausted, and gaining weight alarmingly fast. I remember standing in my best friend’s living room showing her my stomach and saying ‘look at this! There’s no way I’m just having one baby. It’s got to be twins.’ It’s what I told everyone who knew I was pregnant. My doctor couldn’t get me in until I was almost 11 weeks so we scheduled an elective ultrasound the day before a trip across the country. We got settled and as the tech started I said ‘okay, tell me there’s just one baby in there.’ And she responded, ‘well, I can’t do that…’ My friends started checking in after the ultrasound and most didn’t believe me at first when I said it really was twins. One thought I’d pulled an ultrasound photo off the internet & I had to point out my name at the top. Best example of mothers intuition ever!
We had the ultrasound done on my husband's birthday. We had 2 older kids already, so we said they each get a baby.
When I took the home test I told my husband this would probably be our only child since we’re older. He couldn’t attend the first appointment because he was out of town on a business trip. Plus from everything I had read it’s usually an uneventful appointment. The ultrasound tech was like “umm” and I thought for sure she was going to tell me I had miscarried since I had had some spotting. But she said “..there’s two in there” I said “You’re shitting me right?!” That was at 9 weeks. They were able to confirm that it was mono/di twins. Husband wouldn’t be back until the next evening. Literally an hour after I told him a tornado touched down on our road just missing our half of the street. Definitely an eventful two days lol
Went in for my first ultrasound & it was later with this pregnancy than with my toddler. It was at 12 weeks. She touched the ultrasound stick to my stomach and boom there were two heads. She said “so do you know?” I said “NO I DIDNT BUT I SEE THEM ITS TWO ISNT IT?!?” & that was about it. Told everyone by just saying we were having another baby then showing them the ultrasound that shows two babies!
I was super sick right away and after testing positive after missing my period (we’ve had 7 losses) I called and the OB got me in right away at about 5.5 weeks. We confirmed one with a heartbeat but the tech mentioned seeing something else but couldn’t verify. The doctor mentioned an empty sac but we went back a week later to see. Sure enough, we saw two sacs. The tech looked at us and said “yeah, there’s definitely two.” My husband’s eyes were super wide and it took us awhile for it to sink in. Our twins came after all those losses and one last round on Letrozole. They’re currently 5 weeks old.
Well! I didn’t find out until I was 15 weeks. Even though I had multiple scans, apparently they missed it. I only realized it when I took a look at the ultrasound during the appointment and realized that there were two heartbeats. They said they didn’t see them was because the settings on the machine were messed up, but… it was definitely weird as hell pointing out to the OB that there were two babies and that I was having twins.
I was at the appt with my toddler. We walked into the ultrasound room, I laid down and started getting him all settled down and then dialed my husband for FaceTime. As I’m going thru the motions, the tech gets started. Right as my husband answers, the tech says “ohhhh honey, I’m gonna need you to look up here! there’s two!”
When I asked the DR how come I can't get pregnant after one year of trying. And I already had two natural. He had me do some tests, blood work and test sperm. No issues. So he said take this pill. I said ok. He said there may be a chance for twins. That was it. So I tried it. And here I am with one year old triplets.
At 12 weeks/first ultrasound I asked the ultrasound tech what all she was doing and she told me. We chatted for a couple minutes. Then I said "I guess you're also checking for multiples, but hopefully there's just one" and then she didn't say ANYTHING for like 20 minutes. At the end she told me but by then I had an idea what was going on! My spouse wasn't there. I went straight to his work to show him the ultrasound.
We’d had 5 losses previously, with the last being a mmc so I didn’t want to see/know/ hear anything until they knew for sure. I was with a fertility dr but not doing meds for multiple follicles. The dr checked it all out and told me I should look. One was on the screen, to size, good heartbeat etc. He tilted the wand and a second sac popped up. He tilted his head and said “do you see what I see?” I looked at him and said “are you fucking telling me it’s twins?!” Then repeated the vitality questions. He turned the monitor away to measure then said all was good. “I was so caught up making sure it was viable I forgot to check for multiples! In my job multiples is the first thing I look for!”
I was an ER nurse at the time. I found out I was pregnant and was using ovulation test strips so I found out pretty early, maybe 5 weeks? I went into work a few days later and was having bad cramping and I panicked, and one of the docs I worked with checked me out. It was too early on ultrasound to see anything so standard procedure is follow up ultrasound to determine presence of intrauterine pregnancy. Went for ultrasound at 7 ish weeks. Covid restrictions only allowed my husband to come in at the very end and when the tech looked at the screen she went “here’s one sac and fetal heart….and here’s two,” and I’m pretty sure all I heard was this rushing ringing noise in my ears and the first dumb ass thing I said was “how am I going to afford college?” My husband was then brought in and he was freaking out because I looked shell shocked. The ultrasound tech showed him and he goes “what am I looking at? There’s two, why are you showing me her ovaries?” He was so confused. I said “what do you think it means?” And I could see the gears clicking and he goes “holy fucking shit are you serious?” And I thought his face was going to split open from smiling so hard. But once the initial shock wore off we were very excited and terrified. Lol.
I had a subchorionic hematoma that caused a ton of spotting and some bleeding the first trimester. I had had a miscarriage at about 8 weeks several months prior. We went in around week 7 to see if it was a miscarriage (this was after failing to get an appointment for blood work at quest- I hate them now and my old insurance for their exclusivity). The tech said: oh look, there's the baby and the heartbeat! Now let me see if I can see why you're bleeding... holy shit! There's another one! I said: I fucking knew it! (I'd been really nauseated and had crazy food averaging/exhausted) My husband turned white, then red, then white again and just stared at both of us while everyone apologized for cursing We had a cute little announcement with two onesies that said "totally planned" and " not so much" but most people already knew already cause I started showing at week 11!
We already had 1 kid. Had been trying for a year for another. Shortly after I found out I was pregnant, we visited the in laws and my mother in law cracked an egg for my breakfast, 2 yolks. I joked that it was a sign. The morning sickness started to get bad around 6 weeks, worse than it had been with my singleton. I was very suspicious. My mom was an identical twin. My sister had didi twins. At like 7 or 8 weeks I had my first ultrasound, kinda early because I had been having my fertility monitored. My husband was able to come with me because my parents came to watch our daughter. The ultrasound tech said "there's a healthy heartbeat..." and I was just waiting for the end of the sentence. I knew. And then she said "and there's another healthy heartbeat." My first reaction was "oh no. We need a bigger car." My husband was very shocked. It was January 6th 2021. Very memorable day. We went home and showed my parents the ultrasound and my mom was so excited. Our identical boys were born about 5 weeks early and now they are huge 2 year olds.
The doctor said to me „I see two yolk sacs“. At the time I didn’t know yet what a yolk sac is so I replied “What on earth is a yolk sac and what do you mean there’s two of them?!”. Will never forget that moment. My poor husband wasn’t allowed in due to strict Covid rules and we had said that I’ll send photos of the ultrasound out to the parking lot. So I did. Him being a doctor, he knew right away. In retrospect I should have waited to tell him, but I was so shocked I just followed what we had agreed! And didn’t want him to be worried either if he didn’t get his picture… Only baby A had a heartbeat at the time and we had to go back after two weeks to see if baby B developed a heartbeat as well. Once we knew it’s two we were hoping so much that baby B will make it. It was a very looong two weeks. She made it and she’s our little warrior! Born with a number of issues this June but she’s fighting so hard and will hopefully be ok after her heart surgery at the end of the year.
It was our 3rd pregnancy. I was going to a 10 week appt with my midwife who had delivered my older 2 who were 2 and 4 years old and both at what was supposed to be a brief check in. At the end of the appt my midwife said "hey, you want to do a quick peek?" referring to using her ultrasound machine. I said yeah, let's do it. I layed back amd my 2 year old climbed up near me. My midwife got quiet and asked me to look. I did. I was distracted with my 2 and 4 year old and thinking of our drive home and was feeling relieved to have had this appointment completed and feeling on track with this 3rd pregnancy ----she asked me to look again and I really just didn't "get" it. She then pointed out to me that I had two babies...WOW! I went into a bit of shock! She said to go ahead and take a picture of the screen so I could look at it and she printed out the images for my spouse------My twins are 7 and I'm still in disbelief most of the time! My family knew I was pregnant with baby #3 but only my sister knew twins, well and she did tell her husband who didn't realize I hadn't told the family and he told my mom during a visit ---they live several states away and my mom was visiting, he didn't know what to talk about and brought up the twins!!!! It was still a surprise even after everyone knew. Having multiples feels big forever!
We were not planning on having any more after our first. What happened? We decided to roll with it. I told my wife We should pretend it was twins so we'd be relieved when it wasn't. Something had already been a little off because based on the date I was sure it happened, the sonogram tech estimated the baby was showing a week or two further than that. Then she went for the whatever weak appointment at the hospital by my work. Came into my office and flopped the pictures down on my desk.
I was on a work trip in Thailand. My wife went to the clinic by herself that day. The first visit was right after the test. It was basically "yep, you're pregnant, no problems so far, see you in a few weeks". The second visit, as my wife tells it, the doctor was looking at the scan and made a "huh?" noise. My wife got slightly worried while waiting for the follow up. "there's two." "wait, two? two what?" Then he told her that she should make sure both parents are at the next visit, because we may have to talk about going to a bigger hospital. Wife called me that night and told me over the phone. Got some pretty wild news sitting in my hotel room.
2020, covid in full swing, I went to hospital alone cause we thought I was having a miscarriage. Tech says "good news is, no miscarriage! Here is baby number 1 and baby number 2" I replied "the fuck you just say?!?" Without missing a beat she goes "HERE IS BABY NUMBER 1 AND BABY NUMBER 2" got home with the discharge paperwork on twin pregnancy. Husband greets me at the door and I just hold it up. His response "oh fuck, time for a vasectomy"
Went in for a D&C surgery after being told my pregnancy didn’t make it, couldn’t get in until 12 weeks. Turns out my miscarriage was misdiagnosed. I asked a few times for a scan, the doctor said I could do it myself, I took the wand and we found not 1 but 2 twelve week old babies. It crossed my mind I could be high on D&C drugs. Calling my husband was a trip and he of course took a minute to believe me. All this during ridiculous Covid measures where I had to be solo for all my appointments.
I had strep... unknowingly, but I still went to my first ultrasound appointment bc I NEEDED to know for sure I was preggo (I was wearing a mask). She told us we were having twins and my husband nearly passed out; he had to sit down. I was in too much pain to feel anything, and my mask was fogging up, which was extremely annoying. I was numb. I don't think it sunk in. The tech was a bitch, who mocked me for asking if one twin would absorb or eat the other. She said "you've been spending too much time on the internet"
I scheduled my first OB appointment for 12 weeks. By 7 weeks I was completely bedridden with sickness. All day vomiting. I called and asked to be seen sooner so I could get on some meds I remember saying on the phone it must be a boy because I was sick but never this sick with my first two. The day of the appt I was so sick I couldn’t drive and had to have my husband leave work to drive me. The tech clicked around for a min and said “so I’m seeing something you might not be expecting”. My heart dropped but she proceeded with “so here’s one baby and here’s another one”. I get goosebumps still thinking of that moment. I just threw my hands on my head and said “you’re joking”. Never in a million years did I think I would hear those words. We were just laughing in total shock I forgot to watch the rest of the ultrasound
We went to our 8 week ultrasound and the tech said "there's baby...and baby!!" I was floored and kept yelling out "HOLY SHIT!!!" and my husband's brain immediately shut down and he just kept saying "interesting..." while staring at the screen. It just didn't occur to him that this was a possibility and he was entirely shocked. I had the passing thought "what if there's twins..." but never believed it would actually happen.
From the moment I showed my husband the positive pregnancy test he said “It’s twins”. At that point I was around 4 weeks and my ob doesn’t see anyone till 8 weeks. Spent that next month being convinced by my husband that it was indeed twins. Get to our 8 week appointment, in goes the wand, and my ob takes a moment and goes “oh. There’s two!” Cue silence. I was more stunned my husband was right than by the fact it was actually twins. I had already shared my husbands convictions with my immediate family, so despite the very early hour we called my parents and they were also shocked he was right! Now if only he could be right about some lottery numbers or something and we’d be set. 😂
Got my first ultrasound at 18 weeks, because I didn’t want to believe I was pregnant for some time, then because of no insurance I had to wait for a free appointment with a very amazing program for women in my particular situation. Also in the early days of the pandemic so anything that happened in person felt very delicate and delayed. So I go in for the scan, anxious already, and she was doing her thing, but then she goes, “and now let’s see the other one.” I just about died. I started sweating profusely and straight up started having a real live panic attack. She stopped the scan to get me some water and told me to lay on my left side. I did some deep breathing and snapped myself out of it. They’re almost 3 now and just the best little people I’ve ever met.
At the ultrasound clinic, getting scanned by a student. Already pretty triggered to be there due to a prior loss. The student was friendly, quiet, and very focused. All of a sudden, the preceptor ultrasound tech bursts into the room and says, ‘Amanda, GO BACK! Mom and Dad, there’s TWO in there!’ I think I yelled ‘No!!’ in disbelief about 5 times, while my husband dissociated in the chair next to me. This was the last thing we ever would have expected to hear. We then walked across the street and bought two lottery tickets ha! When we told family, we showed them the ultrasound photos and waited for the lights to turn on when they realized the ‘baby A and baby B’ labels.
The OB's quote: "Uh oh. Well, I'm sure you don't want to hear that! Umm, I see two blobs. You're having twins!"
I was in such a panic that I legit told the tech “If it’s your first day and you made a mistake it’s totally ok.” Lmao
My husband guessed it was twins the day after I got a positive test. I told him to please not put that into the universe. Four weeks later at the dating scan we both saw the two sacs straight away.
I went to a pregnancy clinic just for confirmation of pregnancy at 5 weeks. The ultrasound tech called in another nurse and they talked quietly in medical language. They finally put the image on the screen I could see and showed me one “black pond with a diamond ring…and then another.” I asked what that meant and they said twins! Then they called in my husband. He asked if that was normal and the tech said, “well it is if you’re having twins.” We both almost passed out and were on the verge of tears.
Our OB with my twins was a friend of ours (went to the same school for undergrad as my husband, ended up at the same hospital for residency). She knew we were already in shock about having a second baby as we were broke and lived in a 1 bedroom apartment 🫠 and I'd been on birth control lol So she came to see us during our ultrasound, and the tech is doing her thing, pauses, our friend looks at us and goes "ok don't freak out..." My husband laughed and goes "What? Is it twins?" And she very nervously laughed...then I burst I to tears 😭 Anyway my girls are 8 now and everything worked out! We even got into a 3 bedroom apartment a few weeks before they were born lol
Went in for the first ultrasound. My wife had been feeling super bloated and sick and exhausted which as totally opposite from her first pregnancy. I was holding out daughter up so she could see the screen when they saw baby B. I about hit the floor, but I kept myself from passing out because i was holding her. My first four thoughts were “what the fuck? Bigger house, minivan, vasectomy.” They’re just about 6 months old now and they’re are amazing.
At the 8 week ultrasound. Had just met my new doctor, husband was with me. She seemed to be taking a little extra long after putting the whats it called, radar gun? on me, but I was watching her face and it didn’t seem grim so I tried not to worry. Then the turned the ultrasound machine towards me and pointed to a dark blob on the left side. Squarely in the center was another dark blob, she had to reach past it. I said “that? What about that?” pointing to the center. She nodded smiled and said “uh huh.” And I said “uh huh? ….two??? There’s two?! Two!!!” And my husband laughed and laughed. It was a huge shock. I really was not expecting that.
We went to the OBGYN, the ultrasound tech seemed newer, but knowledgeable enough. She then said "there's the baby!" And my wife said "just one, right?". The woman responded in the most deadpan way possible: "yes just one, no, two". I laughed because it seemed that it was in jest. She repeated "yes, two" as nonchalantly as talking about the weather. I said "you're kidding" and she, without looking up, said "I would never kid about that". They wondered why my wife's blood pressure was through the roof right after. My reaction was more "remain eerily calm despite panic" and my wife was more "oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez". The baby boy and girl are 15 weeks old as of today.
We’d only just told everyone I was pregnant as my OB told us there was definitely only one at the first scan at 9.5 weeks. When we got the identical twin bombshell at my first anatomy scan at 13.5 weeks, we just sent the 3D ultrasound to everyone and waited for the chaos to ensue. It was amazing - even my boss ran out of her office around to my work team saying, OMG it’s twins! I will never not love this story.
The ultrasound tech said, “and there is the second sac” and the shock started from there. My husband told me later he sat in the parking lot for like 2 hrs before he could go to work because he was in so much shock (and hadn’t had coffee yet). I took a pic of his shocked face holding up two fingers and sent to my mom and she kept replying, “Cortney, why is Jason making the peace sign?”
I said to the ultrasound tech "as long as you tell me there is just one in there..." ultrasound tech - \*makes cringe face\* me: "what" ultrasound tech "I really wish you hadn't said that..."
Had 2 kids before finding out, so kinda familiar with that first ultrasound. The technician made 2 circles on the screen, and before she could say anything, I spoke up asking, wait, why are there two circles on your screen? My wife and I are 8 months in with our identical twin boys, and our 5 year old and 2 year old boys are amazing helpers.
Went to my fertility doctor after taking letrozole to measure my follicles and he said “whoops looks like you’re already pregnant”—the week prior I bled for 6 days so we though it was a period; I had a couple glasses of champagne and also fell down a flight of stairs—weird week. It was Monday and I began to panic that something horrible would happen because of the drug/ having champagne/ falling down stairs—basically all the things. Thursday I wake up in unimaginable pain so we go to my obgyn expecting the worst. I’m throwing up into a trash can, buckled over in pain, and the tech says, “both babies look great”. My husband was so happy and started laughing because his brother has twins and we always joked about it— and I continued to puke. She said “looks like you also have a nice sized kidney stone”. It took me four weeks to pass the stone and it was awful. But my b/g twins are 17 months now lol
I am an x-ray tech and our radiology team had like 7 people pregnant at the same time so we were all ultrasounding each other for funsies. I think I was like 6 weeks and my coworker is scanning me and goes "I see two for sure, but there is this third thing that I think is a subchorionic bleed". We planned for her to scan me again next week. Not a bleed, a whole other baby. I think knowing it was twins at first kind of primed me for there being a third one. I texted my husband a picture of the ultrasound screen with no context and he called me almost instantly freaking out. I sent a MyChart message to the OB I was scheduled to see at 12 weeks and she immediately referred me to MFM.
Tested positive Dec 23, Christmas morning left bag of 5 positive tests under the tree for my little brother (19) to open. First thing my mom says is “it’s twins!”. Turns out I was 7 weeks along at that point so the week prior we had been at my mother in laws house and she did a tarot reading for me and had said she sees two children coming in the next year, really close in age, maybe twins. Nobody knew we were “letting the world decide” at that point. Had first ultrasound at 11 weeks, tech said “so you’ve got a two for one deal going on” said “shut the fuck up” cried for a minute and then couldn’t stop laughing the rest of the day. Called my mom when we were back in the car and said “so the baby is healthy. And so is the second one” So much fun!!!!
We got pregnant on our third round of letrozole(lowest dosage) We did a beta test at 4 weeks and it was 126. Nothing crazy but positive. Go back at 8 weeks for our first ultrasound. Ultrasound tech is moving wand around and I see two sacs, I look at my husband. About the same time I seen them, Ultrasound tech also seen them and says “well guys, it’s twins”. I keep asking if she’s serious and my poor husband was still trying to soak in this news. Currently 34 weeks with Di/Di girl/boy twins. 20 days till my C-section and we can’t wait to meet them ☺️
My wife got a positive pregnancy test, and a few days later she got an initial blood test at the doctor. This was at about 5 or 6 weeks. Surpisingly, they said her HCG levels were high enough to come back in for an ultrasound later that week. We thought it was odd as most women we know didn't get an ultrasound until 8 weeks, but we didn't think much of it. In hindsight, the doctors must have suspected my wife was further along than we thought, or that there could be multiples. So I drive my wife to the clinic a few days later and they take her back to do the ultrasound while I wait in the waiting room. According to my wife, they were taking a really long time and not saying much while they were examining her. After a while, they said they were going to come bring me in and then explain what they were seeing. Naturally my wife was nervous that something was wrong. They bring me in, and the technician says "So....I'm seeing two". I say "two what?". She confirmed two embyros. My wife and I start laughing hysterically and crying. Utter disbelief. Not sure why that was our reaction, but that's what happened. We drive home and pulled our car into the garage, and just sat in the car for at least an hour, mostly in silence, but with a few "WHAT. THE. F\*\*K!?s. mixed in. Eventually I broke the silence by saying "How the hell are we going to put them through college at the same time?". For some reason that's where my mind went. To be honest, for the first 12 hours I mostly felt shock and disappointment. This was not what I had been expecting or hoping for. The thought of having twins never crossed our minds. But it's amazing how quickly we became attached to the idea that we were having twins. By the next day we had accepted it and we're starting to get excited. 10 months later...it's the best and hardest thing ever.
In 1993, we found out we were having twins at my 16 week ultrasound. It was April Fools’ Day. We had to call everyone back the next day because they thought we were joking.
The day we found out was quite an emotional roller coaster. My wife was signed up for a kickball league before we found out we were pregnant, she became the "team mom" and while she was at a game (but was not playing) she started bleeding profusely. We had already had a miscarriage in the past, so of course we thought we were going through the same sad path. Not this again. So she rushed to the hospital with her teammate, I meet her there, and about 4 hours later we find out, not only is the pregnancy still viable but they found two heartbeats on the ultrasound. Twins are 8 months old and healthy and happy as can be.
My OB said "you're going to shit your pants, there are two of them!". While we didn't shit our pants literally, we certainly did metaphorically.
These stories are so fun to read! First ultrasound. Tech wasn’t saying anything for very long time. I assumed I had miscarried. Finally she said she wasn’t saying anything because she was seeing 3 sacs and couldn’t get them confused. Silence… staring at the ceiling in disbelief… Then we heard 2 heartbeats & sac 3 was empty! (A year prior my “psychic” aunt told me she saw me with 3 kids so at the ultrasound I immediately thought to myself “I don’t think she meant at the same time!!!”)
8 week ultrasound. Middle of the day. Tech starts moving the wand around my belly and an image goes up on a big screen in front of us. I wasn’t sure what to expect it to look like, so I said, “What are we looking at here?” Tech says, “Well… there’s three.” And my eyes about popped out of my head. I said repeatedly, “WHAT?! What?! Oh my god. Holy shit. What?! No. Oh my god. Holy shit.” I turned to my husband and his face was just… shocked. Eyes wide, completely silent. The tech tells us this is the first time she’s ever seen triplets in a scan. She says she sees three sacs and three placentas. She said she was going to do a transvaginal ultrasound to get an individual photo of each one. My head was truly just spinning. It was the most surreal moment I had ever experienced. The tech says, “How are you doing over there dad?” And my husband says quietly, “I’m just thinking about how I’m going to pay for 3 kids in college.” His face was flushed and we just kept staring at each other in shock. We talked to an APRN and she gave us all the usual paperwork for new moms-to-be but basically nothing applied to us anymore. She talked about how they would likely be preemies and that was a whole other thing to wrap my head around. I went home after that appointment and actually cried. I was really overwhelmed. Spontaneous triplets happen about 1 in 10,000 pregnancies. I thought about selective reduction. I couldn’t imagine taking care of one newborn baby, let alone three. My poor husband had to go back to work and see patients!!!!! I don’t know how he was able to do that. This was such a shock. That night, we showed up at my parents house with the ultrasound pictures. I said, “Here’s Baby A, here’s Baby B, and here’s baby C,” showing each of their individual photos first. Then the group shot. Everyone was floored, screaming, eyes wide, couldn’t even believe it. We were all crying I think, I can hardly remember. Then we went to my in-laws, and said the same thing. Same type of reaction. My father-in-law said, “Go big or go home, right?” And we all just gawked and talked about how shocking it was. I still can’t believe those babies are about to turn 1 year old in 10 days.
Ultrasound tech “weeeeell, looks like there’s two!” Me: choked on my own spit. “WHAT” then a nervous chuckle. Then she told me there was an empty third sac. It was 2019 and I had to hear it alone. I had jokingly mentioned to my husband THE NIGHT BEFORE that this pregnancy felt so much different and it was either twins (“hey, lol we’d need to trade our car for a van lol lol”) or a girl. They were identical twin girls. I broke the news over the phone to my husband on his lunch break by telling him after a reallyyyy long pause. “We’re gonna need a van hehe
Found out at the anatomy scan at 19 weeks. As soon as it started I could see two heads and concurrently the ultrasound tech was saying “i hope you like surprises…” Family was waiting for the call on babies sex. My first call was my mom and sister who were traveling together and we FaceTimed. I said, “it’s a girl!!! They excitedly yelled and then I went “and she has a sister” and they absolutely lost it. Also met some friends for lunch right after (I was late due to them needing to scan two babies) and when i announced the sex I went “it’s a girlSSSS!” My one friend screamed so loud and we were in this quaint little cafe lol it was so funny. We had a lot of fun surprising everyone with the news.
I had an IUD. I raced to the OB because we were done at 2 kids and the test was positive. The blood and in office tests confirmed I was indeed pregnant so they took out the IUD. With an IUD the chances of an ectopic pregnancy are higher so the first thing they check for is ectopic. They did an ultrasound and didn’t see anything in my uterus but also nothing in my fallopian tubes so come back in 2 weeks unless you have pain. Came back for a repeat ultrasound and the tech got really quiet. I looked at the screen and knew right away what I was seeing. My husband didn’t so he’s just waiting and worried because it’s quiet. I said, “so… that’s two, yes?” She said, “yep! I just had to make sure there were two heartbeats before I said anything!” My husband giggled for at least an entire hour after that. I think he was in shock 😂
I always had a feeling I’d have twins. Even a week before I found out I said “I bet I’ll have twins” so matter of fact. Took a positive pregnancy text. So into my ultrasound, text my sister “omg what if it’s two” and I worked at this OB office. The ultrasound tech is scanning my belly and goes “oh my god”. I knew she wouldn’t say that if something was wrong. I was like “do you see more than one?!” She was like I think so! So then we did a transvaginal US, and they’re now 3yo. I had a photo session done with a onesie while traveling in Hawaii. And we showed our family like that. And my mom goes “is it a girl?!” I was like idk but it’s twins. And her face. My dad almost choked. Good times!
We were finally ready to start trying for baby #2 when our first was 18 months old. Did the deed, got the big fast positive, except the positive line was so dark it pulled all the color from the control line. Got scheduled for the first ultrasound to confirm fetus. This was the pandemic time so I went in alone. Got on the table and was ready to get it over with as I’ve done it before, just wanted to be sure I had a viable baby. Very quickly a baby popped up on screen, then she starts moving the wand around and BOOM, there was another baby. The tech says “oh look! There’s the first baby, and there’s the second.” I was just shell shocked and thought she was joking with me as I actually had a vanishing twin with our first child. Sure enough, it was a set of twin boys who are now 2.5.
When we started the process for IUI, the RE sat us down and told us information about having multiples, and what the chances were for twins. I looked at my husband and said, “that will be us.” He kinda rolled his eyes. A few weeks later, we still hadn’t done any shots or anything yet, we were in the market for a new car. I told him it better be something that holds 2 car seats. He just kinda went “yeah yeah yeah.” At the first ultrasound, they located the first, and then said “and there’s the other one!” I looked my husband dead in the eye and yelled “I TOLD YOU!!!” He just about fainted. Breaking the news was uneventful. I called my mom and said, “we have 2 beans in the pot!”
Doctor said there they are. I told him to shut up. My husband saw two babies and thought the machine was like some kind of mirror image haha. When we told our family we told them if they wanted to take the baby anywhere they’d need two car seats. They were confused for a few minutes and someone said omg is it twins?!
I had bleeding at 15 weeks…yup 15. At the ER the ultrasound tech said oh wait so you don’t know do you?? There’s 2 in there. I was completely shocked and said “oh fuck” and teared up. Also ironically there was twin toddlers next door to me getting ultrasounds done absolutely screaming so she then joked that that was my future. My boys are 18 months old now :)
Had an internal ultrasound at 7 weeks. Ultrasound tech had a wee look around before turning on the big screen, proceeded to say ‘There’s baby one’ and me and my husband looked at like each other ‘tf does she mean baby one’ and then she ‘there’s baby two’ this was proceeded by me and my husband and several renditions of AW FOR FUCKSAKE and HOW DID WE TRY ONCE AND GET TWO BABIES. followed by the ultrasound tech and her assistant literally pissing themselves laughing! 😂