Not gender prediction but vanishing twin?

[prayin4pink]

This is an old ultrasound picture from my last pregnancy. When I was 5 weeks pregnant I had a strong feeling I was pregnant with twins. Unfortunately only a week later at work I had severe pains in my lower middle of my stomach. It felt like a knife twisting. Then I had so much blood it soaked through my jeans to my knees. I didn't go to the hospital. I don't know why and I wish I would have. I believe I was in shock. I waited until 5 days later when I started to bleed again. I went to the hospital and told them about what happened and a nurse did a quick ultrasound. When I asked her if I had been pregnant with twins she just said no and said my baby was healthy. I swear it looks like another empty sac though? I wonder if she was lying to me to prevent heart break. Anyways I just wanted everyone's opinion. Does it look like an empty sac on the right side? Thanks in advance!

[kaseybaby]

That could be a cyst or really anything.

[covered in blue]

I'm sorry you went through this. I'm not sure what it is but I don't think it's in the uterus. I had a vanishing twin and they were side by side - just a thin white line between them.

[hotdogz&boyz]

My vanishing twin also didn't look quite like that. It was much closer and was similar in size, slightly smaller, than the healthy sac. That dark area looks much too large to be a vanishing twin at that gestation (especially with loss symptoms already occurring). I think it might be outside the uterus too, since the second pic shows a closer up shot and you can see the definition with healthy sac and the uterus. (But I could be wrong). It's not bladder shaped, but it *could* be the ovary you ovulated from, it's a bit large, but not impossible to be that. As others mention, it could be a cyst too. I think the tech would have an obligation to tell you (or at least your doc on the report), if you lost a twin. So I would tend to believe her. It sounds like an odd scenario, so I'd ask your doc more questions when you see him/her.

Edit: I just read that this was an old pregnancy. So I guess you don't need to ask the doc! Sorry!

[atomic sagebrush]

I don't have an ultrasound of my vanishing twin but when my baby was born I had two whole placentas. I had the big healthy one which was attached to my son, then a smaller, dark, one.

I felt like my doc's office did not take my loss seriously and I honestly am not sure they mention it if htere was a twin. They seemed to be of the opinion that if you had a baby at the end of it, what had really happened didn't make a heck of a lot of difference.