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Originally Posted by Swanky Mama Of Three
it's TOTALLY common and in fact, another thing many don't realize is that many women actually conceive TWINS but one vanishes before your 1st U/S and you never knew.
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That has happened to me twice. With my first pregnancy, we knew it was twins (saw both heartbeats on ultrasound at about 7 1/2 weeks). I had very light spotting at 12 weeks, and it turned out one of the babies had died. All I had was the spotting for about 2 days - no cramping or anything else. I was devastated, since everything had seemed to be going so well, but if I hadn't had my first ultrasound until later, I might never have known there were twins. With this pregnancy, we must have lost one much, much earlier, because at the first ultrasound (7 1/2 weeks) they could tell another embryo had implanted, but it was much smaller than the other and they never saw a heartbeat. These were both IVF pregnancies (hence the early ultrasounds), so I knew there was a higher chance of multiples, but it is thought that "vanishing twins" are actually more common than people think, even in regular pregnancies. It can be a cause of first trimester spotting/bleeding.
PurseFanatic, I'm sorry this is an upsetting thread for you, and I know what it's like to try to avoid reading this kind of stuff when you have your own anxieties about a pregnancy. Miscarriage is really such a common problem, though, and it's the kind of thing where it can help to talk about it and get more information from others who have been through it. Maybe it should be a subforum of Pregnancy and Parenting instead of mixed in with the other posts? Like TTC is? I don't know if there are enough posts on the topic to support that, but it's a thought.
