Pregnant with twind

[Becca906]

If you are having twins and you lose one and they are in the same sac What the chances of that other one to live?

[njeosys]

It was Discovery Health but I can't remember what the segment was called. I'm sure you could search on the subject on the site, though.

[njeosys]

There is this term called "Disappearing Twin" (you should google it). It is a phenomenon that doctors are baffled by. If a woman is to lose one twin in early pregnancy, the twin would die and be "absorbed" back into her body. The cases where they find that to be true are when they find out you have twins early on and then later, you only see one fetus and a dot or blurp on the screen where the other twin was.

In later pregnancy, they either birth both babies and the one is just premature. I don't know what else they can do.

The thing about the Disappearing Twin thing is that doctors are starting to wonder and believe if left-handed people are the result of being a part of a twin and the other twin died and was absorbed back into the mother.

I'm left-handed and I've always felt like there was something missing, that I was a twin. It is weird, but true! I saw this story on Discovery Channel and about peed my pants. I couldn't believe it!!! You can find the story on Discovery Channel, probably.

[miko_latte]

I was wondering the same thing. But also if it's different sacs, and if one miscarries is it still possible for the other to survive?

Here's what I found off of a website called ivillage:

It is more common for a woman to lose one twin early in pregnancy, and then carry the other twin to full term without any problems. With the ability to do early ultrasounds, we have learned that many pregnancies start out with two babies, but one is lost in the first few weeks. The loss is so early that even the woman does not know about it; without ultrasound, we would never have known this was happening.
Miscarriage, technically, means loss of a baby before 20 weeks of pregnancy. After 20 weeks, loss of a baby is considered a stillbirth; if the baby is born alive but too early, it is called preterm birth. Sometimes, one of a set of twins dies, but is not delivered for several weeks or months, when both babies are delivered -- the baby that died may be tiny and shriveled by then.

Occasionally, a woman carrying more than one baby will go into early labor and deliver one child. Her labor may then be stopped, keeping the other baby (or babies) in for a few more days or even weeks. In this case the twins would have different birthdays!