Twin Experts - help please!

[Sarah4girl]

Huge congrats blue bonnet! Such great news x

[bunnywabbit]

Congrats on your twins. One of each, how lovely! So happy for you. How are you feeling? x

[atomic sagebrush]

They LOOK like they have one placenta but they really have two that are just hanging out next to each other and over time the vessels can sometimes grow into each other and it becomes one placenta. This is ok provided that one placenta doesn't rip the other one when the baby is born (if it detaches before Baby B is born) Whereas with ID twins, the baby actually splits into two and so you can end up with two babies attached to one placenta. Fraternal twins can't share a placenta. I think the doctor was trying to dumb it down for you unneccesarily.

With my twin pg which did not work out, it looked like I had 1 placenta that was just misshapen and weird. Then as the pg progressed, what they thought was an extra lobe grew apart from my son's placenta and it became apparent when he was born, the doctor showed me the sac, and there was one normal placenta and then this second, ratty looking placenta with no one attached to it, and this teeny small hole right between them where my son had passed through on his way out! (so so lucky I did not have to have C-section) It was amazing and i really wish I had made my husband take a picture of it!

[atomic sagebrush]

That looks like a little girl!! Congrats bluebonnet on boy/girl twins!! I am not a twin mommy, but I am a twin. My sister and I were said to be identical twins at birth due to our "one placenta", but it didn't take long that it became quite apparent that we were definitely NOT identical. Our birth cirtificate says mono-chorionic! Later on I learned from my anatomy teacher in nursing school that my sis and I had implanted so close together in the uterus that our placentas fused into one very early on. They even showed my mom the amniotic sac at our birth and told her we also only had one sac! Which somehow must have looked like one but they were stuck together. So... you most
likely have two placentas that fused very early on to look like one! Your babies probably implated very close together . Again, congrats!!

My son and his cohort also seemed to have one sac but the speculation was that the other sac probably was absorbed when the baby passed and the second placenta grew into the sac somehow. The human body is weird and amazing.

[atomic sagebrush]

Girl, oh, girl! (looking at ultrasound!)

[mommymachine]

Oh wow! Congrats on Boy/Girl twins!!! How fun!