new to this site 9 weeks 3 days pregnant with twins!

hello to all. im brand new to this site and heard its a great site to come to for takling to women who are pregnant with twins or women who are raising them. I just found out yesterday that were expecting twins and they say they are looking like identical but cant tell us for sure yet.. all we know is that my due date is march 17th 2008 and we went in today and baby A measured at 9w1d and 175bpm and baby B was 8w4d and 173bpm. is this normal? im a 1st time mommy and was blessed with 2. im just trying to do all the research i need. im soooo excited.. any advice would be so much appreciated..thanks to everyone

 

Congrats!!! Its normal for them to be measuring off a little bit.. Mine.. Frat twins have always been about a week off..

 

Congratss!! Welcome to the expectant mommy club!!

 

Congratulations and welcome! This site has been very important to me during my pregnancy and I think you will find this as well. There is alot of support and information that only Twin expectant moms can relate to.

 

Congratulations!! Everything sounds great!! Did they say why they thought they were ID? Are they sharing a sac? Just curious

 

Congratulations and welcome to the forum! You get the best advice and support from here!
I believe that my twins have measured almost a week off too.

 

Congratulations and welcome to TS!

 

yay! congratulations!! you will get a lot of good advice on here!!

 

Welcome! my girls are about 4 days different... its normal.

 

Congratulations and :sign0016:.

 

Congratulations on your twins!
My best advise is stay on this site; TS is the BEST!

 

Welcome to Twinstuff and congrats on your twins.

I encourage you to join our Big Sister program. You will be matched up with another Mom with older twins and she will support you and answer any questions you have throughout your pregnancy. Click on the link in my signature for more information. It's a great program.

 

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Congratulations!! Everything sounds great!! Did they say why they thought they were ID? Are they sharing a sac? Just curious


well they said they couldnt say for sure but it looks like they are ID..since i dont know much about twins, if thats the case i heard its more dangerous because there is only one placenta for both???

 

sounds great! congrats!

 

Congratulations! Our boys had been measuring about a week behind until recently, now they're just right. It's normal, just take extra good care of yourself...lots of water, rest and fruit/veggies. It's very easy to get dehydrated and run-down early on.

 

Welcome! We're 8 weeks along now and just found this site as well. All the best to you!

 

congrats and welcome!

welcome socallisa, too!

 

Welcome and congratulations!

 

Congratulations and welcome to TS!! I am sure that the more time you spend here, the more answers you will have and the more secure you will feel in all of this. It is exciting news to learn you are having two...buy wow, is it nerve-wracking!

 

congrats!! If they told you that they looked identical, then I'm assuming it looked like they were in the same sac... There are a few ways that identical twins can happen. They can be in separate sacs with separate placentas...in that case they would look the same on the outside as frats...so they wouldn't assume identical. As far as sharing a placenta, 9wks is too early to tell regardless. But it's not necessarily too early to see that it looks like they are in the same sac... That's really the only indicator this early that would make them guess that they are identical... However, there might still be a membrane between them... And 9wks is too early to tell. Hopefully they do. Even with my frat twins, it was difficult for the u/s tech to see the membrane between them at 11 weeks... And they were in totally different sacs b/c they were frats....but at 11 wks their sacs were so close together, that the tech really couldn't tell the difference. (I think he wasn't all that experienced with twins!) Anyway, hopefully you got a nice membrane between those babies...

 

Congrats and Welcome!! Looks like I'm about 1/2 a week behind you - can't wait to chat with you along the way

Lisa

 

Congrats I am just a bit ahead of you and my 40w due date is March 11. I too was very surprised, but super duper excited!!!

Stacy

 

Congratulations and :sign0016: to twinstuff!! Mine were measuring 6 days apart all they way through my pregnancy. Congratulations to you too SoCalLisa x