skent10
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- Oct 11, 2005
llp479 said:How far along was everyone when you found out you were having twins? We were 24 weeks before we knew, even though DH and I both had dreams about having twins, and he even asked the MD first time we heard the heartbeat if he was sure he only heard one!
Holy cow, that was far along at 24 weeks! I can't even imagine the ones who don't know until delivery. I was 20 weeks pregnant before I found out. Went for the routine ultrasound and completely shocked us. When the sonographer said it was twins, I burst into tears! On the way home from the office, I had to pull over to the side of the interstate and throw up! I had a 25 month old and not quite 13 month old and this was an unplanned pregnancy...
To this day when I look at the 9w sonogram, I swear I can still only see one little jellybean in there! But I promise, I wouldn't trade the world for any of them now!
They were born at 39w1d, 4 days before my scheduled induction. I felt the first contractions at about 1:00 p.m. and headed for the hospital; got to the hospital at 2:04 p.m. and the first one arrived at 2:23! He weighed 6lb10oz and she arrived at 2:38 at 6lb6oz. All happy and healthy and home again less than 48 hours later.
Being a B/G set, they're obviously fraternal, but I have a question about genetics. Perhaps some of you with more knowledge may have an answer. I assumed fraternal twins were always on the mother's side (i.e. the female releases two eggs). But my FIL has B/G twin siblings (DH's aunt and uncle) and just this past year my SIL (DH's sister) had B/G twins. So is this a huge coincidence, or can fraternal twins run on the father's side? How could it make my body release two eggs?! Of course, I've always blamed him anyway, accusing his overeager sperm of finding an empty fallopian tube and abducting a second egg from my ovary!