Wednesday 13 January 2010

12 Week Scan

Had our 12 week scan at Ipswich hospital yeasterday.

We went in hoping that the 12 week scan would reveal that all important membrane seperating our twins and we were both pleasantly surprised to find that there was a membrane there for all to see.

Because of this I am going to cease updating this blog as there are many normal twin pregnancies out there for the world to read about.

If you have stumbled upon this blog because you have recently found out that you may be expecting mono-mono twins, my advice to you is dont worry too much.

I have read a lot of stories out there about Mono-Mono pregnancies being misdiagnosed and thankfully by the looks of this it happens quite regularly. We had our first scan at 6 weeks which is very early indeed, so much so that the membrane seperating the twins is not visible on most ultrasounds, even the hi resolution ones. It is more likely that later ultrasounds will reveal this phantom membrane.

If you are one of the few people on this planet who do have an actual mono-mono pregnancy, I wish you the best of luck and would just say do not read too much into a lot of the bad stories / statistics you read on the web. More normal healthy mono-mono twins are born than not!