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Old October 29th 08, 02:33 AM posted to misc.kids.pregnancy
Anne Rogers
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Default another expecting the unexpected



Lol, all my babies had due dates within one week of each other and all
were born in April.


It does seem a lot of people have this experience, with my
grandparents-in-law had 5 children, 4 of them were born on 13,14,18 June
(2 of them were twins) and I have cousins who share a birthday a year apart.

If they took blood to test your numbers then I think the numbers are
really high or double really fast with twins and that might give you
some info. I didn't have any of that - didn't know it was twins
until 20 week scan.


She didn't mention HCG as one of the things she was testing for and I
only had a single test, so I suspect any variation would be accounted
for by normal variation or getting pregnant earlier in my cycle than I
thought (I think this is moderately likely anyway). I don't plan to have
a 20 week scan, research has continually shown they don't improve
outcomes, so for me, unless I become overly anxious that there might be
something wrong that I'd rather know about than not, I prefer to avoid
them to avoid things like worrying about a low lying placenta that it
likely to be a non issue! However, this was my plan last pregnancy too
and I ended up getting multiple scans as I had kidney issues in the 2nd
trimester.

Exciting news. I can live vicariously through you. I'm done but
always long for a little baby! Hmmm - maybe I can trade in a couple of
ornery two year olds, lol.


I'm not sure it will be living vicariously! The next few months are
likely to be pretty challenging even for the best case scenario.
Occasionally women don't suffer a repeat SPD experience, but given I was
never completely better and am already feeling twinges I don't hold out
too much hope. I was also diagnosed with narcolepsy last year, which
deteriorates over time, so before I got pregnant, without medication I
was exhausted, add in pregnancy exhaustion and no medication and we've
got a tricky situation. That kind of exhaustion is playing havoc with my
mood because it feels like I am constantly trying to catch up with
everything and never on top of things. I'll have to discuss again with
my neurologist, it may be that past 12 weeks, it's better to take
occasional doses when I really need it.

Cheers
Anne