WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 1999: Re: Vanishing Twin ?

Re: Vanishing Twin ?

From: Ann (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:04:30 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 28 Jan 1999, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>Ann Stapleton
>
>I read that another Doc was going to answer your questions so I will not go
>into the problem.

Okay .... >
>The only thing I would want to know "Did the Ultrasonographers know for sure
>that the twins were Identical?"
>

I asked the question about identical/non-identical twins at the time ... on the off chance that if the twins were binovular, maybe ... just maybe ... the conception dates didn't HAVE to be the same (it was worth a try) ... the sonographer (who is actually also an ob/gyn & assistant master of the hospital) stated that it was unlikely that they were binovular twins ... she went into some detail looking at amnions and/or chorions etc. (it was a trans vaginal ultrasound btw) so she seemed confident that there WERE identical. Does this help ?

>I would comment that the problem you are having never became manifest until we
>began to use US.

Agreed .... in fact the sonographer would probably never have mentioned the second baby but for the fact that on the initial 'sweep' with the u/s I clearly saw '2 Black holes' and while she tried to concentrate on the one with the heartbeat ... I had SEEN the second baby ... and asked her about it ... indeed my husband saw it and immediately said 'and there's the second one' !!! I suppose if we were new to u/s ourselves we might not have noticed and it's almost certain that our attention would not have been called to the fact that the other baby was there, >

>It probably happens a lot. It never seems to bring on any complications except
>that the one twin is absorbed by your body.
>
>This type of grief (lose one of twins deliver one) is the worst that can
>happen. L

Thanks for understanding .... I left the hospital wondering just how one was supposed to feel under the circumstances ... I still don't know how it will feel when I finally get to hold my new baby ... will I still mourn the other ? I still hope (it springs eternal) that it will not come to that and that my next scan (on Feb. 19th) will show 2 heartbeats .... I may be trying to defer the inevitable, I may be simply not able to accept the reality of this right now .... I have cried all day .... I feel that I could cry for this baby forever .... they say that time heals everything ... they just don't tell you how much time it takes !

Again ... thank you for your reply. It helps to know that there are people out there who can and will respond to crises (sometimes on the other side of the world) and try to make things better/easier for people to bear.

Thank You Dr. George

--
Ann Stapleton
Dublin,
Ireland

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