While not expecting twins, you'll still be surprise if suddenly the doctor tells us that there are two fetus in your womb. The thought of the birth of a healthy child and funny, direct two people, will make the mother so excited.
If you are expecting twins, because there are descendants of twins in your family, this news certainly will be more happy. You do not even need to get confirmation from the doctor, if you find a character as follows:
- Woman's intuition is often so strong. You just feel that you may bring two fetuses in your body. Some mothers of twins (two or more) said that they knew from the beginning that they were expecting two babies.
- You have nausea, vomiting or morning sickness worse. If it is pregnant twins, levels of the hormone hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin) in your urine may also increase. HCG is required to maintain the pregnancy until the placenta develops. This hormone can be detected through blood or through the urine (when you want to know the pregnancy through the test pack) even before your periods stop. In singleton pregnancies, hCG concentrations usually increased rapidly during the first week, and a double every two or three days. Well, these hCG levels can rise if there is multiple pregnancies, and making you experience morning sickness (or all day sickness) is more severe.
- The symptoms of normal pregnancy may also be larger. Most women (not all) who become pregnant have twins pregnancy symptoms are more intense, due to the extra hormones circulating through their system. Your breasts may feel more bloated, more frequent urination, hungry all the time, and quickly exhausted. In the second trimester, you may also trouble catching breath, swollen hands and feet (edema), weight gain and enlargement of the uterus that is not normal, and strong movements. Problems anemia or iron deficiency (a decrease of hemoglobin) is also common in twin pregnancies.
- Weight gain increased rapidly in the first trimester, and this could be the first clue that you are carrying more than one fetus. If you apply a good diet, you do not need to worry. A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology stress the importance of weight gain in early twin pregnancy, because the addition of two first trimester have shown a greater effect on birth weight.
- Size large enough for your pregnancy. On first inspection you may be told that your uterus will continue to grow. If your menstrual period indicates that the last 8 weeks of pregnancy, your uterus may feel like is 10-12 weeks. This certainly must be proven by ultrasound examination. As soon as pregnancy progresses, if you do contain two fetuses, the uterus will enlarge the size of gestation followed consistently. Uterus that holds one fetus may be reached 38 x 40 cm in height, measured from the pubik bone. While multiple pregnancies may be reached 48 cm.
- You'll get the information that the levels of AFP (alpha fetoprotein) increase. Levels of AFP, a protein released by the baby when it grows and found in maternal blood, may increase when more than one baby. Normally in a simple blood test will be given 16-18 weeks since your last menstrual period.Alpha fetoprotein examination detected more than half of twin pregnancies.
- Your doctor can hear two heartbeats. Two separate heartbeats can be proved until the 12th week of gestation. At around the age of 28 weeks, it is possible to differentiate two fetal heads and a few small parts when doing an ultrasound examination.
- Your ultrasound results positive. If you believe that you are pregnant twins, ultrasound can be done since the beginning of pregnancy. With physician ultrasound experts, two embryos and two fetal heartbeats that can even be seen strong 6 weeks since the first day of your last menstrual period. Many have multiple fetuses can be diagnosed from the age of 5 weeks, when you're just one week late period only.
