If you're having/had multiples.....

[HappyHelpmate]

Did you experience earlier/more intense pg symptoms?

I am 15 wks today, and I just had my first MW appt yesterday. She seemed surprised that my fundal height was just 2 finger-breadths below my navel already.... I've had much more intense nausea this time than with my previous 2 pgs.... and I KNOW I felt fetal movement at about 11wks 6days, but in the other 2 pgs I didn't feel any movement until 18+ wks.

I KNOW those aren't positive confirmations, but I'm just curious if multiple-carriers have similar symptoms. Also, my DS 3yo keeps saying when we ask him if he wants a brother or a sister, "a brother AND a sister." So, again nothing definite, but I do believe sometimes children are more intuitively-inclined than adults.

Anyone have experience with this?

[babygrey]

I'm 13 weeks pg w/ twins... to say my symptoms are more intense than my singleton pgs is a severe understatement. I have hyperemesis that started ~8 wks and I've never experienced real m/s in prior pgs. I was nauseous the day I got my bfp (9-10dpo). I fainted the day before I got my bfp. so... yeah... early and intense symptoms.
but, like you said, not confirmation, certainly, but a huge sign for me.

My uterus is far bigger- a few fingertips above my navel at 13 weeks. However, there have been several mamas in my DDC who measured big and are having a single babe.

I've certainly heard earlier fetal movement as suggestive of twins- but I think I read recently that this was a myth?

Regardless, good luck! Personally, I wouldn't be able to stand the wondering!

[homemademomma]

I'm only 7 weeks, but my morning sickness is WAY worse than when I was pg with my singletons, and I can feel my uterus above my pubic bone already. IDK about the movement thing- it is possible because your uterus is growing faster, so the walls are thinner which may make fetal movement easier to feel. Did your MW listen for a heartbeat? If she is a careful listener she should be able to hear two distinct hearts if it is twins! Are you going to get an u/s?

[MoonStarFalling]

Doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary Happy. I measured 19 weeks when I was really 13 weeks. I was much more tired than usual, pretty much narcoleptic a couple times a day. It felt like my digestion slowed to almost total halt. I hear digestion is the first thing that goes with twins. Very early on I had a lot of ligament pain when lifting anything. My body strongly told me not to do any lifting at all. I didn't have any m/s or early movement, I felt them much later than my singletons.

[~Adorkable~]

I'm 25 weeks with twins currently.
I was really not showing at all unless you really looked hard till about 15 weeks, had no symptoms except raves hunger in the first trimester, and did not feel even the slightest kick till past 21 weeks. At 24w3d I'm measuring 28cm, so just starting to outpace singletons.

So I would say that symptoms can be very misleading and can vary wildly in either way.
Only way to really know is a quick u/s.

[butterflies]

Hard to say but it was true for me. Nausea was much worse and started the day I tested (4 weeks). I was eating every hour and even waking at night feeling hungry and nauseous. And I was exhausted like I've never been before. I didn't feel movement earlier but I have an anterior placenta so that's probably why. With ds I felt movement at 9.5 weeks.

[HappyHelpmate]

Originally Posted by homemademomma

Did your MW listen for a heartbeat? If she is a careful listener she should be able to hear two distinct hearts if it is twins! Are you going to get an u/s?

My MW did listen for a heartbeat, but when she found it and counted it, she didn't listen anymore. She doesn't know I have any ?s about it being twins--it was kind of a quick visit. I will be getting a US, but the date's not set yet.

Originally Posted by MoonStarFalling

It felt like my digestion slowed to almost total halt. I hear digestion is the first thing that goes with twins. Very early on I had a lot of ligament pain when lifting anything. My body strongly told me not to do any lifting at all. I didn't have any m/s or early movement, I felt them much later than my singletons.

This was DEFINITELY my experience this time. I could hardly eat a thing! I actually have only gained a couple pounds so far bc I could eat so little without feeling terrible-just due to slow digestion. The past couple weeks, however, I've been able to eat MUCH better, and there have been times when it seemed that I couldn't GET full, even though I knew I'd eaten A LOT.

I guess I just need to lay the idea on the back burner until I have a US or hear a 2nd heartbeat, but I can't help but wonder about it!

[Llyra]

The only real way to know for sure of course is ultrasound. But FWIW, I had twins-- and I had more intense symptoms, that started earlier. I "showed" MUCH earlier, to the point that my midwife says that from the minute I walked in her office, and told her I was 14 weeks, she KNEW it was going to turn out to be twins. I also felt fetal movement earlier. My two singletons I felt at 18 weeks, both of them. The twins, I felt flutters even before I was out of the first trimester, even though I didn't entirely believe that that's what they really were. (DEEP denial, )