I was just wondering how many people on here were expecting twins, but lost one early on in the pregnancy.
With my youngest, I started with VERY heavy bleeding and cramps at about 7 weeks pregnant. I went to A+E on a Sat aft, and they scanned me that evening and all they could see was a collapsed irregular gestational sac that measured 6 and a half weeks.
I went back on the following Friday for a repeat scan, after spending all week with still bright red bleeding and cramps, and I knew I had lost my baby, i knew the amount of blood and that the baby was gone.
So imagine my suprise when they show me on the scan a healthy baby with a heartbeat!!!!! There was also still the collapsed and irregular gestational sac that once was home to his twin.
At the time i was just so happy that I still had a baby there that it didn't sink in that I had lost a baby.
I've heard of the term 'vanishing twin' but this isn't what i had, as with vanishing the twin is just gone, there is no evidence of bleeding, cause the sac etc is just absorbed by the body.
There was no way we could tell why I miscarried his twin, i guess it was just one of those things.
Has this happened to anyone else?
With my youngest, I started with VERY heavy bleeding and cramps at about 7 weeks pregnant. I went to A+E on a Sat aft, and they scanned me that evening and all they could see was a collapsed irregular gestational sac that measured 6 and a half weeks.
I went back on the following Friday for a repeat scan, after spending all week with still bright red bleeding and cramps, and I knew I had lost my baby, i knew the amount of blood and that the baby was gone.
So imagine my suprise when they show me on the scan a healthy baby with a heartbeat!!!!! There was also still the collapsed and irregular gestational sac that once was home to his twin.
At the time i was just so happy that I still had a baby there that it didn't sink in that I had lost a baby.
I've heard of the term 'vanishing twin' but this isn't what i had, as with vanishing the twin is just gone, there is no evidence of bleeding, cause the sac etc is just absorbed by the body.
There was no way we could tell why I miscarried his twin, i guess it was just one of those things.
Has this happened to anyone else?
When I had Tia, at 6/7 weeks I began to bleed really heavily, really bad cramps, the lot... was rushed to hospital where they scanned me and said I'd miscarried...come back in a week if you are still having probs and we will do a D&C...after I week I went back and they booked me in for a D&C.... just before they were going to do the D&C they said they wanted to do a standard preliminary scan before hand and lo and behold there was a heart beat that turned into my 8 year old daughter... 
but Tia was born with a rare condition called Poland Syndrome which has been attributed to the heavy bleeding I had in my early pregnancy... although this is unproven yet... they don't know what causes it really... 
