My first and second pregnancies ended three weeks and one week early, respectively. Both infants weighed slightly more than 10 pounds 13 ounces. My third pregnancy, a twin pregnancy, ended six weeks early with a combined total birth weight of more than 13 pounds. Carrying big babies should have been the hardest part of pregnancy, ...
Part I of this two article series describes molar pregnancy and the risk it presents. Part II presents one woman’s personal journey upon discovering that she had experienced a partial molar pregnancy. A molar/partial molar pregnancy is a subject that gets scant attention in pregnancy books, usually a line or two, maybe even a paragraph. ...
Congratulations on the blessing of being pregnant with twins! You’re about to embark on one of the most rewarding, yet challenging experiences you could ever imagine. You can expect twice the morning sickness (and by “morning”, I mean “all-day”), twice the exhaustion, twice the thirst, and twice the emotions. The plus side is that after ...
Fetus in fetu is a very rare occurrence, affecting one in perhaps every 500,000 births, in which an unformed fetus is discovered in the body, usually the abdomen, of a twin. There usually is the semblance of vertebrae and buds of limbs. However organs, when present, are malformed and mostly dysfunctional, containing no brain. Although ...
Finding out you’re having twins can be exciting and a little bit scary. In a few short months, you’ll have two brand-new babies to feed, diaper, bathe, and of course, love. Before you get there though, you’ll have to get through a pregnancy that can seem longer than the usual nine months and may require ...
A twin pregnancy carries with it higher risks for mom-to-be and for the unborn babies so it is important that these risks be known and all precautions taken to assure a healthy twin pregnancy. Many aspects of a twin pregnancy are similar to a singleton pregnancy so some of the advice given to pregnant women ...
“I know it’s twins,” I said to my husband. Only six weeks pregnant, I could tell this pregnancy was unlike my first two. Like any expectant mother waiting for that first ultrasound, suspicious she might be having twins, I began researching the symptoms I was having, perhaps, like you are doing right now. Am I ...
