twins but only one heartbeat

[mummy1plus3]

Hi all. I had a scan 3 weeks ago which confirmed I was carrying twins. They were both measuring 6+3 and both had heartbeats. Went for first hospital app yesterday and scan showed twin 2 was measuring 10+4 with heartbeat and twin 1 was measuring 8 weeks without heartbeat. I haven't had any bleeding. Don't know what to expect from now on. Will I bleed and miscarry twin 1? Need some advice x

[Clarissa01]

Hie am really sorry to hear that...well we in the same boat..@ 6weeks plus pregnant...the told me I had twins....nd they wer two heart beats..went again for a scan @9weeks the told me that there's only 1 heart beat the other 1 is no more breathing nd not growing ..and the told me I will bleed like a normal period...I waited and waited..but nothing came up..my dream has been to have twins and my husband aswell..but hey..that's life..so Dnt you worry everything is fine..as long as the other baby is okey...

[Kelz72312]

the babys heart beats beat the same so it makes the same rythm and thats why you only hear 1 heart beat

[AnnieBrooke]

No, you probably won't.  When I had a vanished twin, I could see it in the ultrasounds for a while, and then it got reabsorbed by the body.  A sad thing, I am sorry.  Finding out about a vanished twin is like going to a birthday and a funeral in the same room; (you have a healthy baby, yay!  You have a baby that faded, oh no!)  Anyway, probably no bleeding or passing, probably just reabsorbtion.  Sometimes the placenta is passed when the other baby is born.