how early can they tell if your having more than one???

tris22 · Post by **tris22** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:26 am

How early in your pregnancy can they tell if your having more than one baby??? When will they do the first sono?

lynniecat · Post by **lynniecat** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:32 am

My first one was at 5 weeks 3 days....after the HCG is over 1000. They can tell if you are having more than one by seeing two gestational sacs. If you are having identical twins there would be one sac, but two fetal poles....

I had two and my HCG was always double the average high early on....sadly I miscarried both at different times.

amysbabies · Post by **amysbabies** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:50 am

I had my sono to see how many sacs there were at 5 wks as well.
Goodluck~

dancingirl76 · Post by **dancingirl76** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:53 am

My cycle last winter was twins; however, when I began bleeding early on it was still too early to tell what all was going on even with an hcg # over 1000. My numbers stopped climbing as fast as they had (sometimes the faster they climb they can tell it might be multiples... but even that is not an exact science).

At any rate, I had to wait several weeks even after that to be able to see anything on u/s but that too ended in m/c.

So, to answer your question, you most likely would not know until that first u/s (I'm trying to remember when that was in my cycle then... appx 12-29 I had 12p5dt beta and had my u/s appt in mid-Feb)

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:57 am

tris22 wrote:How early in your pregnancy can they tell if your having more than one baby??? When will they do the first sono?

At my clinic, we can identify some carrying multiples as early as 5 days after blastocyst transfer. But it does not identify all of them and we must wait for the first ultrasound to be sure.

anacris · Post by **anacris** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:52 pm

I had my first u/s at 5 weeks, my beta was around 3800, we only saw one sac, we had transfered two embies, so I thought only one took, we had another u/s at 7 weeks, and surprise! we saw two sacs and two healthy heartbeats... I am currently 29 weeks pregnant of two boys... so it is possible that even if you don´t see two sacs around 5 weeks you are still having twins...

colesmom · Post by **colesmom** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:24 pm

Ghost, I find it amazing that you can tell 5 days after a blast transfer. Can you give more info?

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:05 pm

colesmom wrote:Ghost, I find it amazing that you can tell 5 days after a blast transfer. Can you give more info?

If hCG>30 mIU/ml, it's always a multiple. This picks up about half of the multiples right there.

Lower values can still be a multiple, of course, but when we get the day 5 values, we can be pretty sure of many of the multiples.

how early can they tell if your having more than one???

how early can they tell if your having more than one???

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