19 weeks pregnant with twins - Anyone else??

[tbeards]

Hi everyone! I am going to be 19 weeks pregnant with my twins tomorrow and was wondering if there was anyone else out there that is around the same due date with twins as me? I looked at the Apr 09 babies but didn't see anyone on there expecting twins.

My actual due date is 4/2/09 but my doctor won't let me go past 38 weeks so that date is 3/19/09. I am expecting one girl for sure and they think the other is a girl but "she" wasn't cooperating as much : ) I have a level 2 u/s tomorrow morning so hoping to find out the sexes with greater probability.

Are any of you feeling your baby(ies) move yet?

tbeards

[tbeards]

Hi Suzie! If you are sure of the date, it would seem very reasonable that you are having a multiple pregnancy (at least two), although even the Dr. that I had for the IVF said they can really vary anyway and wouldn't not guess as to the number of babies until the 6 week u/s.

Did you use Clomid or other fertility medication?

~t

[Suzie0224]

Just wondering - my 16 DPO hcg was 1061 and progesterone was 58.  I am sure of the date. Dr. didn't feel the need to do any follow up hcg since numbers were high.  I have heard that a high hcg CAN indicate twins. My ultrasound is Nov. 13th - still a week away and I am so excited/anxious. From what I read, the range is
16 DPO:      40 - 200 mIU/ml HcG
19 DPO:    80 - 400 mIU/ml HcG
22 DPO:    160 - 800 mIU/ml HcG
                                                      OR
At 16 DPO, the average HCG level is 95 mIU/ml, with a typical range of 33-223 mIU/ml.
Just wondering how things are for a woman sure of a twin pregnancy.

[tbeards]

Hi Suzie: At 9 days post 5 day transfer (with two blasts) my HCG was 246 and Progesterone was 20, four days later, my HCG was 2,304 and progesterone was 37.9. What I found interesting that I have never read or heard before is that progesterone levels can vary throughout the day and with what you may have eaten so when my progesterone levels at 9 weeks was 38 and therefore didn't see an increase much at all from my second reading, I was nervous until my doctor mentioned to me about the varying levels. Sure enough, my bloodwork at the second reading was done first thing in the morning and the last one (38) was done mid-afternoon after lunch. Weird huh?

For comparison purposes, and when I really pretty much knew I was having twins, I checked the levels between my first pregnancy (singleton - dd) and my levels at the same times were as follows:

9 days post 5 day transfer of two blasts = HCG was 60 (don't have progesterone levels recorded)

11 days post 5 day transfer = HCG was 140 (again no prog. levels)

17 days post 5 day transfer = HCG was 1,154 (no prog. levels)

~t

[Suzie0224]

what were your symptoms with twins?  HCG levels, progesterone, nausea, etc... just wondering -

[tbeards]

Thanks for posting! I conceived through IVF too so I will probably take you up on your offer : )

[babyprayers]

hi I am not pregnant with twins, however I just had twin girlso n august 6th thanks to IVF let me know if there are any questions you have, I am now well educated :)