My husband and I had the surprise of a lifetime at 19 weeks
pregnant: an ultrasound discovered another baby-we were having twins! Our
famliy members thought we were joking because, really, not finding out until
almost 5 months along? Yep, that was us! We actually paid out of pocket and
went to a sonographer and he’s the one you hear in the video. I wasn’t even
scheduled to have my level two until 21 weeks with the doctor so it could have
been even several more weeks before we found out.We were getting anxious about wanting to know
the sex and see the baby. We hadn’t seen anything since the 8 week ultrasound
and all of us, including the PA who performed the ultrasound, only saw one. Funny, deep down, I knew.At our first ultarasound, I specifically
remember asking, “you only see one?” I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I
was having twins. Mother’s intuition I guess!
We gave birth to our identical boys (had the placenta
tested) on December 2nd, and it’s been an amazing roller coaster
ride ever since. They are growing so fast! We watch our ultrasound video all
the time and to this day, I still can’t believe it when I relive that moment!
Original post to Mad About Multiples.
Tom and Nick are athletic 6.5-year-old boys who are mirror image identical twins. Their mom, a Gemini Crickets POM club member, tells Mad About Multiples that she discovered she was having twins - identical twins! - at her 12 week ultrasound. (The first ultrasound had shown only one heartbeat.) As her twins were monozygotic, she had follow up ultrasounds every four weeks to check for twin-to-twin-transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Her twins were very similar in size until around the last month when one appeared to be a bit larger than the other. When the twins were born at 36.9 weeks gestation, they shared a combined weight of 14 pounds and a slight case of TTTS.
Some fun facts about these mirror image twins:
Tom is a lefty; Nick is a righty.
Tom lost his front left tooth first; Nick lost his front right tooth first.
Tom's hair whorls to the right while Nick's hair whorls to the...you guessed it, left.
Tom favorite activities include sports and super hero play. Nick is into puzzles, Legos and tangrams.
Their mom had to laugh when she watched this video of her twins swimming in mirror image synchronicity.
It's hard to raise twins. Everyone wants the same toy. Everyone wants to be first. We spend so much of our time trying to encourage fairness and sharing while at the same time promoting each twin's sense of individuality, yada yada. As busy parents, we have limited resources in terms of time and energy. Splitting up those limited resources between twins is draining, to say the least. What's a parent of twins to do?
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