Pitt!!! @

[crimsonandclover]

What?! What??!!! I just saw your siggy - did you announce twins and I missed it??!!

Congratulations! ;D That is so exciting!!! (If you can't tell from all the exclamation points)

[pittpurple]

Hi Kelly!!! (Yeah, I can't cope with new SNs). I sneakily announced on TN in one of the baby posts, just found out a couple weeks ago. Had another scan today and everything looks perfect!!! It's starting to feel a bit more real :-)

This would be an absolute dream come true for me so I'm crossing everything I can!!

How are you doing?

[crimsonandclover]

Yay!! I must have missed that baby post because I had no idea and was like... "hey, I wonder if Pitt knows she picked a ticker with twins." And then I saw "rainbow babies" above it and realized yes, you must have known what you were doing :- D

Congratulations!! I very rarely tell someone on TN/TB that they're in my thoughts and prayers because I don't want to say it if I don't mean it. However, I really do think about you and one other woman on the loss board who's having a tough time of it. I sincerely hope that everything goes well with your pregnancy and you end up with two perfectly healthy term babies! Do you know if they're identical or fraternal?

I'm doing ok. I *finally* got a -HPT the other day, and AF seems to have shown up today (very light so I'm still a little unsure as to whether it's really going to "count"), which is really good news. It's making me feel like life can finally go on and that, obviously, is great news.

[clickerish]

Forgive my stupidity, but what is a "rainbow baby"? It sounds cool whatever it is.

[karmaroma]

Congratulations Pitt!! I cannot express how exciting it is that you're expecting TWINS!!

[crimsonandclover]

A rainbow baby is a baby that comes after a "storm," i.e. the couple has had difficulties conceiving or had previous miscarriages, stillbirths, etc.

[clickerish]

May 14, 2012 15:47:23 GMT -5 crimsonandclover said:

A rainbow baby is a baby that comes after a "storm," i.e. the couple has had difficulties conceiving or had previous miscarriages, stillbirths, etc.

I like it! Sounds perfect. I read it as a baby who was gay, which sort of startled me

[elenetxu]

Big congrats, Pitt!

[pittpurple]

Yeah, the rainbow baby thing is something I picked up on the TTC-After-A-Loss board, I really liked the idea but it's not particularly obvious!! We are beyond excited, we always wanted two children and after 2 years TTC it would be amazing to get everything we want this year!

Kelly (I know, I know, I'll get used to the new names eventually) - I am keeping you in my thoughts as well. I'm so glad that you're getting to a place where you can move on and figure out what's next for your family.

I actually have no idea when we'll be able to tell if they're identical, good question! I have my NT scan in June and then if I'm still sticking around, another scan around 20 weeks I think when they try and tell you the sex so I'd assume at that one? I should look into that!

[irish]

Pitt, sometimes it is easier for them to tell if they are identical. One of those instances is if the babies are sharing one amniotic sac and another if they share the same placenta. These are higher risk pregnancies because one twin could take more nutrients than the other. But they could also have seperate everything - have a look here for some basic info www.twin-pregnancy-and-beyond.com/identical-twins-or-fraternal-twins.html
Non-identical twins will always have seperate sac and placenta.

Are there twins in your family at all? Both my parents are non-identical twins and I've cousins who are twins so I half expect to be tripling the number of children I have if we are lucky enough to conceive again!

When I saw that you were having twins I also thought how great it would be for you to have 2 kids at the same time after all your trouble ttc...

[pittpurple]

Hiya Irish!
I'm kicking myself now - once they confirmed that the babies (!) looked good and had heartbeats, I was so excited I didn't ask any questions at all. My scan looked a lot like this -

www.ob-ultrasound.net/images/twins.jpg

But I don't know if that means anything - there were definitely two distinct sacs if that helps. There are a few sets of twins in my family but nothing like in your family! Some cousins and a grandmother. I'm thinking we were just lucky :-)

[dulcemariamar]

Congrats!!! I am so happy that everything is looking good.

[bugabean]

Sometimes the only way to know if they are identical or fraternal is to actually compare the DNA. If they have separate placenta and sac and are the same sex, you might not know until they are born, and even then you might not. Fraternal twins can still look very similar, hence DNA testing.

[dorothyinAus]

Though even if they are boy/girl, you'll still get people asking if they are identical.

One of my friends in high school was the girl in a set of boy/girl twins and people, even adults -- one an alleged science teacher, asked if she and her brother were identical twins.

[bugabean]

I recently found out that technically, boy/girl twins can be identical! I'll have to find it again and link or copy. *off to look*

[bugabean]

*Twin Fact of the Day:
Identical (monozygotic) twins are always same gender because they form from a single zygote that contains either male (XY) or female (XX) sex chromosome.
However, there have been a few reported cases of boy/girl identical twins. This is caused by a genetic mutation in male twins where one twin loses a Y chromosome and develops as a female. The female twin would be afflicted with Turner's Syndrome, characterized by short stature and lack of ovarian development.

[dorothyinAus]

May 15, 2012 5:04:18 GMT -5 bugabean said:

*Twin Fact of the Day:
Identical (monozygotic) twins are always same gender because they form from a single zygote that contains either male (XY) or female (XX) sex chromosome.
However, there have been a few reported cases of boy/girl identical twins. This is caused by a genetic mutation in male twins where one twin loses a Y chromosome and develops as a female. The female twin would be afflicted with Turner's Syndrome, characterized by short stature and lack of ovarian development.

Interesting fun fact.