Vanishing Twins

[lilmd]

Does anyone have experience with a vanishing twin or at your U/S seeing one sac that is much smaller than the other? That is what happened to me on Monday.. they were even hesitant to say it was a 2nd sac as it was about half the size as the 1st and want me to come back next week. My HCG levels were off the charts so I am pretty convinced that it is a 2nd sac.... any feedback would be helpful.. thanks ladies

[charr]

At my first ultrasound last week, I had three sacs, all different sizes. Only one of them had a yolk sac visible. One sac was much smaller than the other two and the tech seemed convinced it could not be a gestational sac but that the other middle sized one could be. My levels were also through the roof so I'm not sure what is happening. My first beta 10dpt a 5dt was 621. What were your levels?

[lilmd]

I guess we just need to wait and see. My levels were 835 at 14 dpt a 4dt... Then 3 days later it was over 3000 and 3 days later it was over 7000. How many did you transfer?

[siouxsie]

Last fall, I was pregnant with twins. At first, it did take lots of adjustments of the U/S wand to see both and even then, it was usu. 1 at a time. We heard the heartbeats and everything. Then at just under 8 weeks, one of the hearts stopped beating. Of course, we were devastated. The dr. said this happens to IVF twins about 30% of the time. I’m not trying to be a downer – but I just wanted to say it’s common that both don’t survive so don’t beat yourself up.

The really good news is with those numbers you are most definitely pregnant.

[charr]

At our second ultrasound at 6 weeks, we confirmed being pregnant with twins and saw both heartbeats, but then at my third ultrasound at 7w4d, one of the heartbeats had stopped and we just have one baby remaining.

[hope33]

My first IVF we transfered 2 embies and dr confirmed only one sac at 6 weeks. later in that week i started bleeding so went in for another U/S and they found a second sac both with heartbeats. at about 8 1/2 weeks went back for another u/s and one heart stopped beating so they called it a vanishing twin. i eneded up with one very healthy boy..... good luck to you!

[brenda3]

My first IVF pregnancy I had twins and lost the heart beat at about 9 weeks and My Wonderful daughter was born at 35 weeks. This one is my 6th cycle was a FET and I had twins again but lost one at about 10 - 11 weeks and so far everything looks great on ultrasound with my pregnancy.

So this has happened to me twice. I also had a triplet pregnancy that I lost one at 6 weeks, one at 8 weeks and the last was lost at 10 weeks so I didn't have a live birth with that one.

I thank GOD for giving me the children that I do have.