Twins Baby - 8 Signs Your Pregnant Twins
While not expecting twins, you would still be a surprise if suddenly the doctor reported that there were two fetuses in the womb you. The shadow of the birth of healthy children and funny, direct two people, would make the mothers are so excited.
If you are expecting twins, because there are descendants of twins in your family, surely this news will be more happy. You do not even need to get confirmation from a doctor, if you find the following characteristics:
1. Woman's intuition is often so strong. You just feel so alone that you may bring the two fetuses in your body. Some mothers of twins (two or more) say that they knew early on that they're expecting two babies.
2. You experience nausea, vomiting or morning sickness worse. If it is pregnant with twins, levels of the hormone hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin) in urine may also increase. The hormone hCG is required to maintain the pregnancy until the placenta develops. This hormone can be detected through a blood or urine (when you want to know the pregnancy through the test packs) even before your periods stop. In singleton pregnancies, usually the concentration of hCG increases rapidly during the first week, and became a double every two or three days. Well, hCG levels can be increased if there is a twin pregnancy, and make you experience morning sickness (or all day sickness) is more severe.
3. The symptoms of normal pregnancy may also be greater. Most women (not all) who are pregnant with twins have more intense pregnancy symptoms, caused by the extra hormones circulating through their system. Your breasts might feel more swollen, more frequent urination, hungry all the time, and quickly tired. In the second trimester, you may also capture the difficulty breathing, swollen hands and feet (edema), weight gain and abnormal uterine enlargement, and fetal movement is strong. Problem of anemia or iron deficiency (which lowers hemoglobin) is also common in twin pregnancies.
4. Weight gain increased rapidly in the first trimester, and this could be your first clue that you are carrying more than one fetus. If you apply with a good diet, you do not need to worry. A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology stressed the importance of weight gain in early twin pregnancy, because of the addition in the first two trimesters shown to have greater influence on birth weight.
5. Your size is quite large for gestational age. On first inspection you might be told that your uterus will continue to grow. If your last menstrual period indicates pregnancy 8 weeks, your uterus may feel like already 10-12 weeks. This certainly must be proved by ultrasound examination. As soon as the pregnancy progresses, if you do contain two fetuses, the uterus will enlarge the size of the gestational age is consistently followed. Uterus that holds the fetus will probably reach 38 x 40 cm in height, measured from the pubic bone. While the twin pregnancy will probably reach 48 cm.
6. You'll get information that the levels of AFP (alpha fetoprotein) is increasing. AFP levels, proteins released by the baby as it grows and is found in maternal blood, may increase when there is more than one baby. Normally a simple blood test will be given 16-18 weeks since your last menstrual period. Examination of alpha fetoprotein detected more than half of twin pregnancies.
7. Your doctor can hear two heartbeats. Two separate heartbeats can be proved up to 12 weeks of gestation. At about the age of 28 weeks, it is possible to differentiate two fetal heads and multiple small parts when doing an ultrasound examination.
8. Positive results of your ultrasound examination. If you believe that you are indeed pregnant with twins, an ultrasound can be performed early in pregnancy. With doctors specialized ultrasound, two embryos and two strong fetal heartbeat can be seen even 6 weeks since the first day of your last menstrual period. Many of the twin fetuses can already be diagnosed since the age of 5 weeks, when you're just one week late for your period only.
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