Swaying pink, having twins, thoughts?

[justalittlepink]

I am currently 13 weeks pregnant with twins, was swaying pink. Looking at the data, there are 7 sets of multiples listed on the google docs sheet. From what I can tell, all swayed pink and got pink. Does this mean there was one girl, both girls? Just curious, hoping my odds are good that there's at least a little pink in there Obviously it depends on if the twins are identical of fraternal, which most wouldn't know from ultrasound only, but wondering if any of the stats experts can help me out!

Thanks!

[MyByC]

The doctor should be able and tell if they are identical or not. Did you had any u/s by now?
Have you took Clomid to sway twins or?
Good luck :-)

[Dana-Alicia]

They can't always tell if the baby's are fraternal oridentical, right? I also wonder if you took clomid or anything like that to sway pink. I hope you hear pink!!

[1+2+3boys]

No they can't always tell MybyC. It it can be very tricky to tell and sometimes frustrating. The earlier in the pregnancy, the easier it is to tell if the babies are sharing a placenta or not. Twins with their own placenta will implant in different places in the womb which can be an easy way to tell when it is early days and they are tiny with heaps of room. Even the 12 week scan can be tricky sometimes. I found out it was twins at 12 weeks and they did not check for number of placentas because they were dong the 12 week scan x2 and it was a pretty standard place without anyone who specialised in multiples. I went to another place from then on on recommendation from my Ob. He wanted to know how many placenta's there were to figure out what care I would need so I don't understand why my next scan was not until 16 weeks.
The sonographer said it looked like one placenta but was not 100% sure and we discovered they were both boys (I was not pleased about that but don't worry, I did not sway) so we still did not have a certain answer. A boy and a girl would of coarse have to have their own placenta! Two placentas may fuse to look like one but they are still functioning independently.

So my pregnancy was treated like one placenta (Monochorionic Diamniotic). For the rest of my scans which were every two weeks I had a different lady for the rest of them and she was certain the twins were sharing a placenta, thus identical. She seemed pretty experienced with twins. Well turns out they were. I was still not 100% convinced when they were born because they looked so different to me so we got a DNA test done at 2 months confirming that my boys are identical twins. I have heard many other stories like mine. I can see it now at 2 1/2 but their head shapes were so different at birth that it affected their facial feature layout slightly.

Then there is the other end of the scale that I have also heard many stories about. Couples having twins and the babies having their own placenta each and being told that they are having fraternal twins. So they end up having "fraternal" same sex twins only to struggle to be able to tell them apart. Some of them get DNA tests done and find out that their twins are in fact identical. A small about of identical twins have their own placenta. It happens when the embryo splits really early after being fertilized. (Before implanting). I think it is just some people getting lazy about the facts.
Also many of these people are in denial about it because they heard what the doctor told them and are set in their ways. I have met three people who claim to have fraternal twins and there is no way in hell those twins were not identical. Oh and the Olsen twins claim to be fraternal. Ha yeah right, of coarse you are! I thought mine were fraternal for sure when I first saw them and I needed it confirmed because it never 100% was during my pregnancy. I was disapointed that I thought they were fraternal just after meeting them because I thought that I had had two more chances for a girl and not even gotten one.

I don't know about those stats that you speak of just a little pink but I would think that if you are swaying for a girl and you get one then it is a successful sway even if there are two girls in the end or a bonus boy.
The world of twins is amazing and complex and I feel very lucky to be apart of it but it was a scary and hard journey at times. There can be so many unknowns, it really is a whole different ball game to a singleton pregnancy. My twins were numbers 2 and 3 and I felt like I first time Mum again.

They are the lights of my life. I love them soooooooo much and feel so darn lucky to have been gifted them.

[justalittlepink]

They can't always tell if the baby's are fraternal oridentical, right? I also wonder if you took clomid or anything like that to sway pink. I hope you hear pink!!

I was not taking clomid. Just some herbals and
vitamins as I was instructed to from atomicsagebrush, and voila! Twinsies!

So far, I've only had one bedside ultrasound, so they weren't looking at placenta at all, it was just a quick one to check fetal heart tones and hello, baby #2!

And the above poster is right about the fraternal/identical twin part. From what I've read, 30% of separate sack and separate placenta
twins can still be identical, just depends on when the split occurs. I have younger brothers that are twins, they were separate sacks/separate placentas, but are absolutely identical, by looking at them. There is a lot of interesting stuff about twins, it's fun to research

[luvmyfam]

Congrats on twins!! I hope you hear girl! I am a twin and when me and my sis were born 31 years ago they told my parents we were identical twins due to one placenta, but apparently at the time they didn't know that placentas could fuse! My mom said she could tell us apart from the day we were born. We are definitely not identical!!

[atomic sagebrush]

Some were gg, some were bg. No one has gotten bb twins with swaying YET, one lady got bb twins without swaying, however.

That having been said, everyone needs to go into this with the certainty that eventually someone is gonna roll "snake eyes" (using term loosely because I would have loved twin boys, I think twin boys are the CUTEST thing ever) and walk away from a pink sway with twin boys. It will happen and no one should look at our numbers as any kind of guarantee.

[atomic sagebrush]

Not all our twins were Clomid twins! We've had quite a few natural twins too.

[atomic sagebrush]

Congrats on twins!! I hope you hear girl! I am a twin and when me and my sis were born 31 years ago they told my parents we were identical twins due to one placenta, but apparently at the time they didn't know that placentas could fuse! My mom said she could tell us apart from the day we were born. We are definitely not identical!!

Everyone always assumed Mary Kate and Ashley Olson (who look very very similar of course) were identical but they had a DNA test done and they are fraternal, they just look a lot alike.

[justalittlepink]

Some were gg, some were bg. No one has gotten bb twins with swaying YET, one lady got bb twins without swaying, however.

That having been said, everyone needs to go into this with the certainty that eventually someone is gonna roll "snake eyes" (using term loosely because I would have loved twin boys, I think twin boys are the CUTEST thing ever) and walk away from a pink sway with twin boys. It will happen and no one should look at our numbers as any kind of guarantee.

I know there's no guarantee, was just curious about the numbers. Thanks for your responses. I really appreciate it!