Vanishing Twin Syndrome

[quaizer]

I couldnt read and run. You ladies are all so brave and I genuinely wish you all the very best love and luck for your pregnancies xx

 

[panasher]

Hello, I should be 6 going on 7 weeks pregnant and on friday I had a huge blood loss with some clots in there, I feared the worse as I've already had two miscarriages in the past year and half. I couldn't get in for a scan until today.
The scan showed two sacs, and I was told that one of them was filled with blood. The other one was much smaller and she said that it was only measuring at 5 weeks so couldn't tell if it is viable yet due to the size. Has anyone else been through the same and gone on to full term?
I have to have a re scan next Tuesday and hope and pray that there will be a heartbeat.

 

[Lucky.M]

Hi I saw this thread, and felt I had to look, you see I should have had a twin! My mum bled and found out she still was having me when they thought she had miscarried, it wasn't really heard of back then, but my twin vanished. I am so sorry for all of your losses, but hope the rest of your pregnancies are healthy ones x

 

[Alaska_twins]

Hello Ladies,

I haven't dealt with VTS but I am mum to 13 month old twins. It would be interesting to know if the surviving twin is a lefty. I saw on tv (I think discovery) that a person who is left handed was a twin. I am curious if that is the case. My mom thought she was pregnant with twins with my middle sister (bigger than normal) but had a singleton, she was orginally a lefty. It is so fasinating how your body responds with multiples. Fetus' that are a multiple is more development in the womb than a singleton. The reason for it is cause your uterus is larger than normal so your body thinks you are further along in your pregnancy. Another discovery channel documentry. I just that I would share the last part. Good luck to you moms.

 

[Eoz]

My daughter is a lefty and i believe she was VTS.As for my other 2 I can't say as a bit young yet although my youngest shows signs of left handedness x

 

[kermit4]

Hi ladies,

I've been fascinated to read through this thread.

I fell pregnant with my first baby in July last year. I had pretty much continual light bleeding/spotting throughout the first 10 weeks. It was my first pregnancy and I spent most of my time reading pregnancy books and managed to explain away the bleeding with the reassurances I found in the books. I felt I would be bothering the doctor and they would think I was a hysterical first time mum so I just worried away at home. The bleeding stopped and everything pretty much settled down.

At 12 weeks, 2 weeks before I lost my little boy, I had a really heavy bleed and passed something. (TMI>>> about the size of the palm of my hand, perfectly round and a mixture of pinkish whitish and reddish colour in a vein-like pattern) I was convinced I was miscarrying at that point. I phoned NHS 24 and the midwife I spoke to there thought so too. I cried all night. When I was scanned the next day, my little boy was there, heart beating, arms waving. The midwife I spoke to said it must have been a large clot I had passed and gave me no further explanation for the bleed.

Anyway, sadly I went on to lose that little miracle boy I saw waving at me that day. I eventually called hospital as I was noticing a little brown bleeding and they called me in for a scan which showed that my wee man had died. He died just after that first scan two weeks before. Whilst I was delivering him I passed lots of clots. None of them looked like what I had passed 2 weeks earlier.

I guess I'll never know for sure whether I lost a twin. I'm not sure there is really anyone I can ask who will be able to tell me. I'm the only one to see what I saw. I think the question will be with me from now on.
What breaks my heart is that I should have gone with my instinct and got checked out early on for the bleeding. If I had had an early scan I might have known whether or not there were two there to begin with.

I can't bring myself to discuss it with my husband and I am worried my doc or midwife will think I'm imagining things!

Thought you ladies might be able to give me your opinions. Do you think it's worth asking my docs about... will they be able to tell me anymore?

I'm currently 17 weeks pregnant with my second wee one... definately only one in there and absolutely none of the weird symptoms that happened last time.

So should I be thinking about two little lost souls or just one?

Thanks for reading,
K.x

 

[Eoz]

Aww hun that must have been hard and i can't really say for sure.But what you described was exactly how it was when i lost my 1st twinny and also when i had a single m/c.I saw the same as well.

Its lovely you are 17 weeks into another pregnancy.Congrats x

 

[kermit4]

Thanks Eoz for your reply,

So sorry for your losses. It's such a heartbreaking thing to go through.

Hope this pregnancy is going well for you,

Much love,
K.x

 

[calilove77]

So sorry for your loss Kermit. It sure does sound like it was a twin, although nobody will ever know for sure. Praying that it doesn't, but, if it happens again, you can always save what came out and take it in for them to run tests on to find out for sure. I really had a hard time accepting everything at first and seriously thought about some counseling. I did not have any, however, I wish I would have as I am sure it would have made it much easier for me to say goodbye.

So happy that you are 17 weeks along now. That is wonderful news!! A happy and healthy rest of the pregnancy to you!!

 

[Faerie]

I'm sad for everyone's losses, but glad to see awareness of this being raised. My Aunt, cousin and sister have all had confirmed VTS.

to you all xx

 

[Hispirits]

Hi everyone. this chat has been really helpful to me. i'm so sorry for all of yuor losses.
i think i may be experiancing the same thing. firstly me and my mum are leftys!
i had a m/c in october last year, and new i had lost my baby.
i'm 6/1 today.(sat)
last friday morning i got my 3+ on the clear blue igital. i though it was a bit early to be honest, but was pleased anyway, and i jokingly said to my husband , it might be twins that evening began to get really bad pains in my tummy, like harsh period pains.
the next day i started to get a brown gooey discharge when i wiped.i repeated the digital test and to my horror it had gone down to 1-2!
i was concerned so i rang the early pregnancy clinic and they booked me in for a blood test to check my hormone level. which had to be repeated 48 hours later.
so i had the test tuesday morning and got the results by lunch my hormone lvel was 260, quite low, but not out of range for 5-1/2 weeks.
well that evening the brown discharge turnt to brown blood, like what you'd get in a period.
i went to A+E they took some blood, gave me fluids and i got to see a gynocologist. he refused to scan me after i had told him what my hormone level had been earlier that day but said he would examine me.
i didn't look but it felt like a smear test. my poor husband saw it all! quite a bit of blood and clot. the gyno said it didn't look good, but i hadn't miscarried yet, it could be 'on going', what ever that means. he insisted i repeat the hormone test thursday.
i came out of A+E excepting the fate that i had miscarried.
reluctantly thursday i went for the blood test. hour and a half later the lady was on the hone she said good news, your hormone level has risen to 480.
i was like err so i haven't miscarried? 'not yet' she said, although hormone levels can rise during a miscarriage. so i have to go back on monday for another test. ( preg test is still saying positive)
when i had my m/c in october last year, i knew it was over straight away. i haven't felt like it this time, i said to my husband i can't deny all the signs and symptoms are saying miscarriage, but i don't feel like i've lost anything.
i'm still bleeding, but its more like blood from a cut, than menstraul bleeding. and its only been like that since they gyno had a route around, and he was quite rough, i am concerned he's done a bit of damage to be honest. but i'll not know til monday. but all my senses are telling me i've had VTS.
can anyone who has experianced this relate to any of what i'm going through?

 

[calilove77]

That really does sound about like what happened with me. I too had clots and etc. I wish you the best of luck today! Let us know how it goes!

 

[Hispirits]

thats good to know! i hate to think that i'm reaching on to any conclusion!
my hormones went up today to 980, its still quite low. but it didn't decline! i'm maybe wondering if i ovulated late/egg implated late which has got my dates muddled up and i'm not actually as far gone as i think.whch would account for the low hcg.
scan on wednesday. with levels this low i don't expect to see a heart beat yet, but some definate answers i do expect! i'll keep you posted, thanks for your input.much appreciated. x

 

[jenmc226]

I started having major bleeding around 6wks with my first pregnancy. Heavy spotting, bright blood. I had a 6wk ultrasound and everything looked OK. Then around 8wks I suddenly/instantly lost a lot of blood. It just came pouring out of me. Soaked through my panties and pants and was all over the place. Along with the blood I passed a large golf ball sized semi-solid mass. I was sure I had just miscarried. I went to the ER later that night to get checked out. When I told them about what happened but explained that I had experienced no pain they said they weren't sure I had miscarried and advised me to make an appointment with my OB. So the next day I saw my OB and had another ultrasound. And not only did I not miscarry but it was discovered that I was carrying two babies! From then on I had light spotting for the next couple of weeks. When I went in for my regular checkup at 10 1/2 weeks I had another ultrasound. Despite just finishing the best 2wks of my pregnancy so far they found that I had miscarried one of the twins. They could only find one baby and an "empty space" where the other used to be.

So what I thought was a miscarriage was not. And when I experienced no real issues I found out that I had miscarried.

I did have more spotting throughout the pregnancy. And had 2 more times where I lost major amounts of blood in a short period of time. (The solid mass I had passed at 8wks was a blood clot and I continued to pass these throughout the pregnancy though not quite so large). I delivered my healthy baby boy at 34wks via emergency C-section.

I later found out I have a unicornuate uterus - which was why he was early and breech. The losing of the twin was unrelated. Really my uterus can barely handle one baby, twins may have been too much for it and I could have lost them both.

The Doc also told me losing a twin early on is very common. Because it occurs so early on most women who do lose a twin probably are never aware that they were ever carrying a second baby or that they lost it. If I hadn't had those early ultrasounds I never would have known about it.