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Same - my first singleton pregnancy was a BREEZE. like hiking a fourteener in CO breeze. My twin pregnancy knocked me on my butt immediately. Within the first 10 weeks before the ultrasound, I was so tired I could barely get out of bed. I had told my husband something was definitely wrong... turns out I had to di/di twin boys.
Me too! My HCG levels were no different than my previous singleton pregnancies (unsuccessful pregnancies), so I thought for sure it was only one. At my viability scan at 7 weeks, it was confirmed that there were two! I tell everyone HCG and symptoms are not an indicator of twins. Only a scan will tell. And currently, at 32 weeks, even my belly doesn't indicate twins. People are shocked when I say I'm carrying two. And for reference, these twins are in the 70% for growth, so they are not small!
My provider doesn’t check HCG. The viability at 8 weeks they only saw 1, but didn’t even look for a second one because I had no reason to. My first trimester symptoms were nearly non existent, just being tired… I will say my belly at 32 weeks was very much twins haha
Same. I couldn’t have been less prepared for the idea of having twins (other than my partner always saying he would love twins and my first child saying from the start that there were two!!).
Yes and no. I'm a fraternal twin and had a feeling I'd have fraternal twin boys. I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks and had my first ultrasound at 8w6d. My symptoms were just nausea. Nothing to indicate more than one. Sure enough there were 2 in there, both stinky boys
Yes! Before my first OB appointment, I told my sister that I had a weird feeling I was having twins because I was having recurring dreams where there were two of everything (the one I remember most is a dream about two balloons floating in the air). I don’t have any twins in my family or reason to think I would have twins and I’ve never had a weird intuitive feeling like that, so I was a little freaked out by the first ultrasound!
Are you me?! I also dreamt about having twins twice before my first appointment. In one dream, a witch told me I was having twins and in another I saw two young women and I just knew they were my twin daughters. Turns out I was right about both - currently taking a contact nap with my girls.
I had a vivid and all- consuming dream a week before I found out I was pregnant. In the dream, I was breastfeeding twins, and I had never felt more right in my life, dreaming or awake.
I was still totally and completely flummoxed and flabbergasted by the news at my first ultrasound.
I also had a vivid dream about having twins before I found out I was pregnant!! Then, right before I went for my first ultrasound, I told my boss that I had a weird feeling it was twins…
No. Not at all. I was completely blindsided by having twins and also never once guessed my kid's gender correctly. The most mild first trimester symptoms of all my pregnancies were with my twins. Didn't know I was pregnant until 10/11 weeks found out it was twins a couple weeks later.
Yes. I knew from the second my IUI was completed. They told me I had a higher than average (which is already high when going through treatment) chance of twins. Two mature follicles and a husband with no issues?
He was in denial. The clinic was surprised when I wasn’t surprised to see two babies on the screen at my 7 week sono. I just knew from the jump.
For our first ultra sound we thought of the worst case scenario of baby loss … not once did it cross our minds ever that there would be two
To this day it’s still the most surreal moment of my life, because it was so unexpected
Your wedding and the births you at least can anticipate.
Finding out the first time it’s multiples it’s unlike any other feeling
Me too. I was all but convinced they’d find a non-viable pregnancy. To see two little gummy bears with beating hearts is unlike anything by else I’ve experienced.
I was the exact same, went into the ultrasound expecting loss and got the complete opposite!
I did however have lots of dreams of twins prior to the ultrasound but they looked like my daughter so I thought I was just dreaming she has a twin not that she was going to have twin siblings haha
I told my husband since we found out we were pregnant that I knew it was twins. I told him for weeks and went to an early ultrasound because I just knew it was twins and wanted it confirmed. It was in fact twins.
I drove my wife into our first appointment after confirming pregnancy and jokingly said “we won’t get the gender today but at least we’ll know we aren’t having twins”
We’re having triplets
Yep. I just knew I was having twins to the point where the morning of my ultrasound I was saying over and over again “please don’t let me be right about twins” 🫠 no surprise when the ob said congrats! Twins! lol now I’m super happy with them and love them to pieces but I wasn’t too happy about my intuition at the start 😂
Yes! I saw twins every where I went after getting a positive test. I couldn’t get the thought of twins out of my head—I thought I was losing my mind. On ultrasound day I thought “I will finally be able to let this idea go after today”. The ultrasound tech joked with us about twins before she started and just a few minutes in, she got really quiet and said “there is another one”. We thought she was joking again but she wasn’t!
My mom told my wife that my wife was gonna have twins. Twins don’t run in my family, my mom does practice Santeria, doesn’t have a crystal ball, but she is always oddly right when she calls the future.
I was totally blindsided. I had no idea. But prior to our ultrasound, almost every member of my family had made a joke about me having twins. And my husband wanted it so much, I’m pretty sure he willed the embryo to split lol
My wife's sure was. Early in the pregnancy she claimed she was carrying twins. Given that twins don't run in either of our families, and there was no IVF involved, I laughed and immediately dismissed the notion.
Several months later, after the first ultrasound, I was no longer laughing.. (and sort of wondering if my wife was a witch).
My mom is a twin so I knew it was a possibility. I really felt it was twins but then only saw a singleton on the first, second and third ultrasound (even got past the NIPT test)!! Then finally baby B poked their head out and I was like I KNEW IT!
This is me right now. I can feel two different babies moving at the same time. It's like fireworks in there all the time. I can even feel them touching each other through the sac. I'm scared to go in the Dr. Office Friday and tell them this bc I know they will say I'm crazy bc I've had ultrasounds done, but I know in my heart something is big different this time. 3rd pregnancy... also 30 weeks and I understand it's wild to go this long without them knowing but I'm also fat and they couldn't even see my baby's face at my Anatomy scan.
Yeah. I kept having dreams about twins. I was really hungry, and really sick, too. So I just had this feeling. My dream gender prediction was wrong though — it was always b/g in my dreams, but in reality I’m having bb.
Not mine, but my husband was. The moment I showed him the positive pregnancy test he said “it’s twins”.
I was more surprised he was correct than that I was actually having twins.
The idea of twins somehow didn’t enter my mind! We did ivf and transferred two embryos but because of previous difficulty I just couldn’t imagine that both would take! Even when the HCG numbers were super high I was just like “neat, that’s one healthy baby!” In retrospect it’s so obvious but at the time it wasn’t something I even thought of
Yes. After I found out I was pregnant I just kept talking to my tummy saying "babies" instead of just baby. It freaked my husband out when we found out I was right.
I didn't have any intuition but I had all the symptoms of a twin pregnancy ( severe nausea and vomiting that started early a very dark positive pregnancy test and moderate fatigue). I was extremely shocked when the tech told my husband and I we were having twins. I just thought pregnancy was kicking my butt this time around ( my singleton pregnancy was 6 weeks of mild morning sickness and fatigue that a mountain Dew couldn't fix).
My mom did jokingly say before the first ultrasound "What if it is twins?"
The thought didn’t even cross my mind that I was having twins! I just that thought there was something seriously wrong with me or the baby because of the extreme pregnancy symptoms. I was actually so relieved when I found out I had having twins, obviously the whole pregnancy after that was extreme, but at least I was expecting it.
Nope. Me and mum had talked about it when I had my first (wouldn't it be nice to get 2 for 1 then be done etc etc) then the idea of me having twins completely left both of our consciousnesses. Mum has had twins, too. I remember telling her she had no idea how tired I was at 8 weeks and her saying "well i might because I had twins. You can't be more tired than I was then" and we STILL didn't wonder if it was twins. Spoiler alert: it was twins, and I was 15 years older than mum was when she was pregnant with twins. I WAS more tired than she ever knew. We were both shocked to the core to find out I was having two.
My husband knew somehow. Every time I would ask if he was hoping for a boy or a girl, he’d say, “I want twins, one of each,” and I would laugh and smack him for teasing me and not giving me a straight answer.
Lo and behold, 40 weeks on the dot and an emergency c section later, we had twins. A boy and a girl. 🤦🏻♀️
Nope! It’s a long story, but the short version is I opted out of hospital visits and had a midwife and doula instead, and my midwife didn’t have an ultrasound machine, which I was fine with since we didn’t want to know the gender and there are other ways to check baby’s size etc. I have issues with hospitals. I get panic attacks. So I was planning a home birth with the hospital being plan b.
Due to my twins positioning, you couldn’t tell if there were two babies there. When we did go to the hospital and they did an ultrasound, it was still really hard for them to tell and took two different ultrasound machines and quite a good amount of time before they clear to see what was going on.
Basically, a series of improbable events lol, all one after the other. Fortunately, I got almost all unisex newborn clothes, so we only had to buy another duplicate item for a few things.
My husband and I had been kind of joking about twins and I got my positive SUPER EARLY on 8dpo and it was already a very clear line, not even on FMU. So there was a part of me thinking maybe it’s twins?? But I still didn’t really think it would be 🤣
Yes. My odds of getting it correct were better, I’d had two embryos implanted with IVF, but before pregnancy was confirmed, I knew both had taken.
I wish I could say it was some kind of fun, joy, love feeling but actually I felt super bloated, super nauseous and strange!
Nope, I didn’t even believe I was actually pregnant. I only took a test to rule it out for a medication change - shock of my life being pregnant. I barely had any capacity for surprise left when we discovered twins at a dating scan 😂 I wouldn’t change anything now though
Yep. I had a feeling and told my friends. Had a dream I had triplets 1 boy and 2 girls. I then cracked open an egg with 2 yolks the day of my ultrasound at 12/13 weeks. Found out it was triplets but lost one.
I was hardly sick at all so I thought my pregnancy wasn’t going well before I finally got to have the ultrasound. Nope, it was fine and yep, it was twins! Lol
We were in the process of selling our truck to prepare for baby #2 and taking advantage of the high used market. My husband wanted a certain vehicle and I told him we should wait a couple weeks until our first appt just in case it was twins. We ended up with a minivan.
Not intuition but I made a joke to my husband the day before my first ultrasound about having twins. And then we get there, the doctor says, “oh it looks like I have a surprise for you,” and I just start laughing so hard I’m crying. Turns out, my estranged grandfather (my dad’s dad) was a fraternal twin and everyone knew twins ran in my family but me.
The rules of this sub are no “aM i HaViNg TwInS?!” posts because even with the rule we get inundated with people fetishing having twins who are utterly convinced they’re having multiples for some dumbass reason or another. It’s not unreasonable to not allow that.
They didn’t ask if they were having twins though
Editing to add: generally I completely agree with you, I’m just saying nothing in this particular post shows whether or not they have twins. It’s just a fun question. You had to go check their post history to find out that they don’t know if they have twins or not
I kept seeing twins all over my birth group on fb. I have no twins in my side of the family. I made little remarks to my husband about it like COULDNT BE US! Telling him how wild it was. Then I pulled up to my first ultrasound and just... had a feeling. And then there it was on the screen. 2 sacs. I was in denial and I didn't say a word. I kept staring and they finally stopped the ultrasound and stared back at me and asked one another "who's gonna tell her?" 🫠
My intuition was sort of correct. I felt like something was sort of “off”, just in how extreme my fatigue was. But it was also my first and only pregnancy, so I had no actual comparison and singleton pregnancies can cause extreme fatigue too. But I did make jokes about how I was carrying either twins or demon spawn. I wasn’t entirely serious though and it was still a huge shock, though I did feel strangely validated!
I had a fleeting thought on the back of a very bumpy quad ride 2days after conception, ”what if it’s twins?” And then I didn’t think about that again for 5 weeks until my first appointment when they said it was twins. I was gobsmacked.
Obviously that’s not how I got my di/di twins. But funny I thought it, and the driver takes credit for the twins to the day haha!
I had a dream it was twins before my first ultrasound and I still didn't think it was actually twins. So I guess my subconscious was right but not my intuition
Before the ultrasound I had a thought, what’s the craziest thing that could happen? Well, it could be twins. And then there were two heartbeats, and my wife was in complete shock, and I just thought, yeah, that’s about right. Barely any surprise at all almost like I’d immunized myself to the shock by contemplating it beforehand.
Yes! I was taking a test everyday cause I was in disbelief. My hsg levels sky rocketed and the line was way way darker than the control line. With some googling I suspected twins. And was right! Just welcomed my didi twins 2 weeks ago.
This is so funny. I took a digital test the day of my missed period and it said it could take a minute for the result to show and immediately it popped up “pregnant” now I wonder how dark the line would have been if I took a test like that. Congrats on your babies!
My husband was convinced from the moment I got pregnant that it was going to be twins and I thought he was nuts. I was sure it was just one.
And then with the pregnancies after that I was sure it was going to be twins again and both times it was just one
My intuition is not reliable 😅
I had a dream the night before my first ultrasound where I was handed two balloons. I sat down at the ultrasound and said “I’m just here so you can tell me it’s not twins because Im pretty sure it is.” She laughed. Within seconds said “funny you should say that…”
I started sobbing. I had a 2 year old and a 16 month old AT the appt with me. We ended up with 6 kids and my mo/di twins are the most amazing girls and the coolest thing I’ve ever done!
I was terrified and so relieved they saw just 1 gestational sac on the ultrasound. Next appointment.. surprise, there were secretly 2. Am still terrified to this day (they're 13 months and have a 3 y/o sister).
I was so oblivious. My dad is a fraternal twin so I easily could have had twins to start but I totally forgot about it. Here I am with identical twins that aren’t hereditary.
Yes. We were monitoring my HCG for possible tubal pregnancy & my symptoms appeared very early and very strong. I was so sick and my breasts were on fire. My HCG was rising way too quickly. So I of course googled the symptoms and HCG rising fast and it went to multiples or Down Syndrome. And twins run very heavily in my family. But Down Syndrome does not. So I instantly knew it was twins. Plus my husband said “you know we’re having twins right”. He jinxed it.
So I guess it was really his intuition.
Yes! The night before my ultrasound I told my mom I had a weird feeling that I was either further along than I thought or that I was having twins bc I just felt like I was looking bigger than I should be. My mom was like “no there’s no twins in our family so you don’t have to worry about that” LOL
Yes!! I didn’t have my first ultrasound until close to 14 weeks but for at least a month before that I was telling my husband it was going to be twins. I was really sick but my mom was too with her singleton pregnancies so I didn’t really think that was the reason. I just really felt it. No other way to explain it. I had dreams about it too and dreams they were both girls before we found that out. I don’t really believe in that kind of stuff so it was really freaky. I would literally have dreams of doctors appointments that I hadn’t been to yet and what they would say to me and it all happened
No not at all. My twin pregnancy was not planned every refused to go to the doctors. I got really sick at 15 weeks we to ER I thought I was having a miscarriage but no .. I got told I was pregnant with twins 🤣
Yes! It was my third pregnancy and I felt really different, so weak and sick. Before the first ultrasound appointment my dad said say hi to the babies for me!
Yes. I knew it was a possibility and definitely hoped for it since we did fertility treatment (IUI - two mature eggs).
I had awful period-like cramps the whole first trimester, and sometimes it was painful to pee.. My first ever time talking to them (before I definitely knew) was me trying to pee at 6 weeks and saying "babies let mommy pee."
One week later confirmed babies, plural.
Yes, I had a dream I had twins the night before the scan, but in the dream they were boys and I now have beautiful 3 month old girls so I guess I’m not 100% psychic! I also felt very pregnant very quickly with tiredness and sickness not long after I’d taken the pregnancy test and it felt uncomfortable to lie on my stomach almost straight away even though I was far from showing, I kind of thought it was a placebo effect! I was still absolutely shocked at the scan though
My mother already had 4 singletons and her 5th pregnancy belly was measuring farther along. It wasn’t she was nearly 5 months along that they took an X-ray and could see 2 fetuses! X-ray because this was long before ultrasounds!!!
Right before I had the ultrasound like a minute before I had a weird thing tell me it was twins like a feeling then yeah I thought I’d have one and one tho not twin girls
My husband and I transferred 1 embryo as part of IVF. Our HCG numbers were really high from the start. He joked “it’s twins”. I was like - “nah just high numbers”. Appointment at 7 weeks showed di di twins 😂. Our doctor said we conceived naturally and had one via IVF. This was a shock because our IVF doctor and urologist said chances of natural conception for us are super low given poor sperm parameters
I knew from really early on it was twins. I was so sick and had abdominal fullness from the start. No one else in my family had been sick like I was. I kept telling my husband that it was twins or one really fiery girl. I had a dream the night before out ultrasound that I yelled at the tech for it being twins. As we were walking in I told my husband that I thought it was twins and he better pray it wasn't triplets. We saw both of our girls right away. To be fair, twins run in my family.
Well we put two embryos in with IVF during a round that was nearly cancelled twice. When the early pregnancy got debilitating I knew somehow both had taken and that it was twins as the exhaustion was on a totally different level.
Well… I guess when I was 12, I told my cousin “I will never have kids because when I do decide to have a kid, I’ll have twins” oopies #1
I was at a sublime / Incubus concert. I didn’t know I was pregnant. I smoked 2 joint while listening to “smoke 2 joints” and I said the comment “watch… imma found out I’m pregnant and have twins now” dark humor and oopies #2.
Then on our way to work, my boyfriend got a skunk and I puked everywhere. Like non stopped puked. My boyfriend said “I think you’re pregnant” I was in denial. Next morning, found out I was pregnant. Week after founding out I was pregnant, found out I was 10 weeks pregnant with twins.
I had a feeling like a week before but didn't want to speak it into existence so I didn't tell my husband. Oops.
My sister had a dream that was I was pregnant when I was *days* pregnant and had no idea - thought that was freaky too.
Yep! I always said since I was little that I wanted boy girl twins. The morning of my ultrasound I was in the bathroom getting ready and I heard the word “twins” over and over again in my mind. Not like I was saying it, like someone else was.
I got my boy girl twins!!
I made a joke that because the strip came positive WAY early, it was probably twins. In my heart, I didn't actually believe that - but holy hell, it was twins!
When I was a little girl I used to dream I had boy and girl twins a lot. When I struggled with fertility (recurrent miscarriage) and knew I wanted two I commented with my luck we'd finally have a baby then have twins. We had my daughter Nov 2020 then I got pregnant and since we had a natural cycle with her on metformin we didn't go through a clinic I started metformin before we started trying again. I had an easy first trimester with them (I was so sick with my first) so before my first scan at 9 weeks I said to my husband worst case no baby other worst case more than one (to lighten the mood, bc I was sure with the lack of symptoms I would lose them)
We immediately saw two babies. I think I somehow manifested them to be twins since it was going to be my last pregnancy. Not sure if that counts as intuition but I've always found it odd! Now my boy girl twins will be 2 next Friday
Nothing lmao. My pregnancy was a dream, no sickness etc just back pain towards the end which is understandable.
My partner and I were discussing if we thought it was a girl or a boy before our scan. I said I had a feeling it was a girl, he said boy. Turns out we were both correct.
I told my husband the second the second line showed up “it might be twins” lol. I guessed because it wasn’t even a week past ovulation. Then the morning sickness was so so severe (ended up with HG) that I knew it was different than my first. I also got pregnant 2 weeks after a miscarriage and I had a sneaking suspicion my body dropped more than one egg in order to clear house. We found out there were two at 9 weeks and I kept saying “I knew it!”
Not necessarily intuition but I did see a double rainbow the week before I found out lol I tweeted about it saying “aww saw a double rainbow today!”
Still trips me out whenever I think about it lol
My maternal grandmother had 11 kids, 2 of them are fraternal twins. I’ve got countless cousins on that side (literally, I stopped counting about ten years ago at 23 cousins. Most of those cousins have their own kids now too) and no twins besides the one set. For no rhyme or reason my youngest sister and I have always been convinced that one of the two of us will have twins. After four losses, on our very last try, boom. Fraternal girls. We call them our full on double rainbow 😂
PS keep us posted! I’m invested now and I want to know if you’re having twins lol. Either way, good luck with everything to come!
We had been joking around that it was twins and growing up I always said I wanted twin boys.
First ultrasound comes along, and the ultrasound tech said “well guys, it’s twins!”
I cried on the table and my husband was trying to process the news 🤣 They are almost 9 months and we love them so much💛
I had absolutely no idea. I knew that I was debilitatingly sick but I had no idea I was about to get the shock of my life. However, my boyfriend’s mom knew immediately.
Edit; wanted to add she is also a twin mom which may be why she was able to predict it
I was already showing at 6/7 weeks when I was just finding out I was pregnant. So I 100% though I was having twins. Didn't help that I was also having dreams about it too. So when I got my first ultrasound at the ER (had COVID before my first OB appointment) when the doctor told me he thought he saw two I didn't react. My husband on the other hand freaked out lol
I had scheduled an early ultrasound at a free clinic because I didn’t want to wait till 20 weeks like our OB typically does for a normal pregnancy. The week before I had a little bit of spotting so they did bloodwork and our HCG was astronomically higher than it should have been (I was tracking my periods and such so I knew exactly how far along I was). I remember calling my mom, who was a maternity nurse for years and asking her “could this be twins?” And she said it was possible but she said I probably just had my timing off.
At the ultrasound appointment the people at the clinic asked why I wanted an early ultrasound and I jokingly said “just want to make sure there’s only one in there!” Then 10 minutes later… surprise it’s twins! I just had that feeling after I saw the numbers that it wasn’t just a singleton.
I was correct! I actually told the person at the r ultrasound, keep looking, I think it’s twins. She was shocked but a couple seconds later she found the second heartbeat.
I was saying I felt like it was twins as soon as I found out I was pregnant! The night before I found out the genders I had a dream that me and two little girls were dancing around a fire and they ended up being girls 🥰
The night before our first ultrasound I had a thought pop in my head about how crazy it would be to have twins and all the extra work/things we would need. About 15 minutes later my wife casually mentions that she thinks we might have twins since she was so much hungrier than she was with our first. We both laughed about how weird it was we both had the same thought around the same time. Well sure enough the next day at the ultrasound we got the "here's baby A..."
Yes. With my first pregnancy I was a little sick and a little tired. With them I was vomiting so much and and if I sat down I was asleep. I was sobbing in the appointment before the ultrasound it is either a boy or twins because my daughter hadn’t done this to me. With it being the start of Covid I hadn’t been able to get in until almost 12 weeks so as soon as the picture popped up it was pretty obvious there was two!
My first HCG was high and I was googling if it was normal and it was in the normal range for both a singleton and twins. Husband and I joked what if it was twins. But I didn’t “feel” like it was twins
This happened with my aunt and uncle who were already parents to my oldest cousin!
My cousin G was 6 at the time my aunt became pregnant! She asked G if she wanted a brother or sister, and she surprisingly replied she wanted both. My aunt was like “Nah, you gotta pick one or the other” 😂G wouldn’t budge and sustained her original claim!
When the time came for the ultrasound, lo and behold it was boy/girl twins! My aunt was in shock that G was right! After recovering from the shock, my aunt and uncle were very excited!
This was back in 2009! G is now 21 and my twin cousins D (boy) and S (girl) are now 15!
Yesss. My husband didn’t believe me, I didn’t have twins in my family but I kept telling him that I was pretttttyyyy sure it was twins. First ultrasound confirmed it and he just yelled, “how did you know?!” Not even sure what convinced me but here we are!
I always wanted twins. I just had a feeling I was meant to have them.
Months b4 I got pregnant it was all I thought about. I used to have phantom pregnancies were I felt pregnant but never was, and I always assumed twins bc I felt strong nausea.
When I actually was pregnant, my dads
reaction was “well, I hope it’s twins,” and later doesn’t remember saying it?? So before my ultrasound it was on my mind.
I would confidently joke about “maybes it’s twins,” “you never know it could be more than 1,” and acting like it would 100% happen, and I would come back to tell them it was twins…I had 0 doubts. But for some reason when it actually showed up on the ultrasound I was still shocked and very much freaked out.
I had a thought when I was a teenager that I might have twins- random I know. When I got hit with horrible morning sickness my mother said "I wonder if it's twins" and I laughed her off knowing it wasn't really indicative. The joke was on me!
We had names picked out for years, and I would try and visualise "who" it was. I always felt like they both were there and couldn't get a clear sense of which "one" was "missing" though. And they both were.
I was seeing twin things everywhere in the wild! Billboards promoting our local twin festival, local Facebook groups talking about their twins, read a book that had twins in it. I told my husband it’s gonna be twins. My mom said it was gonna be twins. Lo and behold- twins. Lol
Well there’s lots of stories here but this is mine. I went for an extra early ultrasound but even thought my pregnancy test was positive and my hcg was super high, they couldn’t see a sac.
My fertility doctor was so upset he said it was an ectopic pregnancy but when they didn’t know where it was (tubes were clear).
I cried so many tears, another miscarriage and they said I would need chemo and couldn’t try again for a half a year. I was devastated.
But somewhere in the back of my brain I thought, but it could be twins. I feel pregnant - I knew what it felt like. It could just be early.
Since I was so use to being disappointed, I shoved that thought down and prepared for the worse.
12/16/2022 - I had another ultrasound and was totally shocked and soo happy. I was blessed with my little twin babies. Best news ever and so glad my intuition was right.
Best of luck to you 💕
A few weeks before we found out I was pregnant and expecting our twins I was sitting on the couch with my husband and randomly brought up how I thought it would be pretty cool to have a twin sibling. My husband disagreed and said he likes having his individuality, but I felt like it was something special and sorta wished I had had a twin sister. Looking back we wondered if perhaps subconsciously I knew something about having twins but I just wasn't aware that I was pregnant with them.
I was more sick than with my son, I thought that maybe because I am older and when I saw my elevated hcg levels I did think about it.... And yeah twins
Had no idea it was twins but I knew I had a boy. Went to our first ultrasound at the fertility clinic at 6 weeks after positive HCG results and I was feeling pregnant. This was my second pregnancy so I knew the feeling and I wasn’t nervous about whether or not the embryo transfer worked. And I knew it was a boy. At the time I was hoping for a girl. But then, nope! Identical twin boys found at 6 weeks
I knew. I knew because my hcg was 30% higher than the average at 5weeks. I texted my husband, “my hcg is normally high and that’s a sign of twins” and proceeded to google “sure signs of a twin pregnancy” and then gaslight myself into thinking I was crazy. I had awful exhaustion and morning sickness. Always sick and vomiting. Come my 9 week appointment, and we indeed found out there were twins!
I didn’t have any intuition about it. I noticed I was more tired and gaining weight much faster than with my first two pregnancies, but thought maybe I was just farther along than I actually was. Surprise!
Yes ! My husband and I both joked about it even in the US apt before we found out. I felt extra tired and extraaa hungry at the beginning and also had dreams of two. The one I talked about the most before the US was a horse having two baby colts at a farm house and I was in a third person perspective. I’m currently 36+4 with mono/di 😭soooo ready !
100% It was pretty wild. Before I even could test, I had a very vivid dream that I would be having twins. I woke up and just knew. I told my husband and parents even. I ended up testing earlier than I should (I didn’t have the early tester) and the line was super solid. I just knew. I started researching twin things immediately. Sure enough, we are having twins. I even knew their sex.
Yes, actually! I felt like I was bigger sooner than with one, but I told myself that it was due to a second pregnancy.
On the way to the ultrasound I joked with my husband that we would have to get a bigger car because it was going to be twins. This honestly came out of my subconscious, just from nowhere. Has this happened before to people where you word-vomit a number or idea that immediately pops into your head, and then it turns out true?? Anyway, I said, "Don't worry, I'm just kidding. Statistically our chances are really low." An hour later we were seeing two heartbeats in an ultrasound.
They're eleven and we STILL sometimes can't believe we have twins.
Not my intuition, but my husband’s! He said something about twins when I got the positive test, I told him off. Fast forward to 7 weeks and we two on the ultrasound. They’ve just turned one and I’m still (jokingly) mad at him for being right about it! 😅
(Not mad about twins, to be clear, having twins is so cool, just that he was right!)
When my husband and I were a fresh couple we were talking about wanting kids in the future and he said “you might have twins.” And I thought he was teasing me about it so I laughed it off, because that’s so uncommon! He would mention it any time we were talking about babies. Anyway I got pregnant years down the road and he kept throwing “it’s twins” around and laughing about it, again I laughed it off haha very funny.
Went to my first appointment at 11 weeks and had an ultrasound and there was 1 baby. I said “that’s awesome because my husband’s been teasing me about twins.” And then at 15 weeks I wanted to do a gender ultrasound for shits n giggles and there were two. My husband let me tell you, busted out laughing. He predicted I was going to have twins for years! That was the most insane plot twist of my life in that very moment lol.
The only time I even had an inkling that I was having twins was when I noticed how big my belly looked at like 13 weeks or so, and even then I was mainly like “yeah right.”
Absolutely was! I just knew before I even got pregnant, we would joke and even have family joke…then we got pregnant and at 6 weeks I went to the midwife for my appt! I said I thought it might be twins because I have XYZ symptoms and she laughed. Went to my private viability ultrasound straight after and the first thing she said was: “are these your first? Here’s baby A” I was like 🥹 “so there’s a baby B?”
I just knew ✨
Also caveat - I didn’t have any sickness at all but I did have a very very very early positive and I had crippling cramps where I thought I might have appendicitis
Yes. I told my doctor that I must be having twins because my pregnancy test came up positive very quickly at 3 1/2 weeks pregnant. Like a really strong dark line. I went to my first ultrasound and there was only one baby went to my second ultrasound, and there was only one baby. Went to my 14 week gender ultrasound. The second baby was hiding behind the 1st baby. I have identical twin boys, they were mono di- one placenta.
Yess! When I found out I was pregnant, I just knew it was twins. I was also getting a lot of reccommed videos on YouTube about twin pregnancies or targeted ads lol it was kinda weird to the point where I kept having to remind myself that I don't even know if I'm actually having twins yet lol. First ultrasound, I saw the two sacks immediately and instantly started laughing because I was right the whole time.
Also my brother (who is 5 years older than me) told me after I found out that I was expecting twins that when I was little maybe around 2-3yo I would always talk about "my twins" and "me and my twins" so I guess he caught me when I still remembered any soul contracts I made before coming to earth LOL
Either way, twins or a singleton congratulations! and I hope you have a good and healthy pregnancy 🫶🏼
I posted my pregnancy test on r/tfablineporn and someone commented that it was really bright for the time since ovulation and after that I was convinced it was twins. We had been trying for a year and a half so I tried really hard to get myself to believe it might just be one baby so that if it was I could be happy rather than disappointed, but I couldn't convince myself and luckily it ended up being two and I was even happier. That was a great day.
Mine was very correct! With my other two pregnancies, my husband and I would joke that it was twins but we never felt it was. This time, as soon as we found out I was pregnant, we both said it was twins. We knew in our guts it was twins. My symptoms started getting more aggressive than with my other pregnancies and that just made me feel even more certain it was twins. We told everyone I was eating for 3 because we were so sure. The ultrasound came and instantly saw twins. I said “I fucking knew it was twins!!!” And then apologized for cussing😂
Yep! I was like "why is my hcg too high but not molar high..."
My hcg was running a week ahead. Would have had to gotten pregnant during my period to make it make sense. I attempted to back calculate it by halving it every 2 days and it would have been positive before it was possible to be pregnant. I guess it was a bit more logic than intuition. But hcg is weird and even if it was excessively high it still didn't really point to twins technically.
I wasn't any sicker though. I was still zero sick.
For the record I intiuted that my 3rd would be twins but she wasn't lol. I just really wanted twins for some reason. And I'm loving having them for 4 and 5.
My grandma passed away two years before I had my twins. In the summer before she passed she had a dream that I'd have twins. She was right! ❤️ (They run in the family, her mum was a twin two, and her cousins, and great-aunts, etc.)
What intuition?? There was no intuition. It was like getting hit by a Mack truck. Immediate meltdown/panic attack. Neither my husband or I even considered the possibility of twins lmao
Yeah 8dpo I had a dream that I needed a new car cuz mine couldn't fit enough car seats, and then a second dream on the same day I got a positive test where I looked down at my stomach and there were multiple things squirming under the surface and then I birthed a whole pile of ostrich looking eggs lol . I kept telling my husband I was so paranoid and just felt like there were multiple inside me .
Then I got more nausea than I had with my son . My friend was convinced that meant I was having a girl but I was like ugh IDK dude ... 😅
My first pregnancy I felt like death from the day I conceived until like a year after I delivered my son. I went into my twin ultrasound telling my husband it was likely an ectopic pregnancy since I didn't feel deathlike enough to actually be pregnant. Hilarious....
Not sure if it was intuition but I was SUPER sick before my first ultrasound and I had the thought of “wouldn’t it be nice if it was twins so I only have to go through this once?”
I vividly remember having the thought, but by the time the ultrasound came around a couple days later it had already left my mind enough that I was in complete shock when I got the news lol
Yeah, I went to my first OB appointment and listened to heartbeat, then found out they weren’t going to do an ultrasound. I asked my doctor if she would have heard a 2nd heartbeat if it was twins, and told her I had a feeling it was. Thank goodness she immediately sent me for the ultrasound based on my hunch!
I had already joked about it with the grandparents, and discussed budget and how we’d manage with my husband. Twins didn’t run in the family. I was quite certain I felt implantation pain in two separate locations (this was my primary reason to think twins), followed by light cramping in those same two areas a few weeks after that. I had tested positive very early & dark, and was very sick first trimester (first pregnancy, nothing to compare to). Everything in the internet told me it wasn’t likely, but I was convinced. I think the US tech was a little confused that we weren’t more surprised, and even asked if we had already known there were two.
somehow the thought of having twins was around the eclipse. i was pregnant by then but didn’t have my first appointment then. it’s superstitious not to go out during that day if you’re pregnant. i went outside and thought to myself “omg what if this makes me have twins” a silly thing that i know is impossible but i found out i was having twins a few days later. i even kept asking my boyfriend “what if it’s twins” it’s a blessing!
Not me but my husband. We found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks and for the next four weeks until our first ultrasound when we talked about them he swore up and down it was twins and ended up being right
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I was really sick so I thought it was twins…. Turns out it was triplets 🤷🏻♀️
Ayyyyy same.
Same for me 🙈
This was it for me too... Didn't say it out loud until the night before the ultrasound. Also, had a very early positive test.
Same. Put two embryos back. Two distinct episodes of implantation bleeding. I was sure it was two. 🤦🏻♀️
Same - my first singleton pregnancy was a BREEZE. like hiking a fourteener in CO breeze. My twin pregnancy knocked me on my butt immediately. Within the first 10 weeks before the ultrasound, I was so tired I could barely get out of bed. I had told my husband something was definitely wrong... turns out I had to di/di twin boys.
My intuition was opposite… was sure I was just having 1 and found out at 12 weeks it was 2. Symptoms and intuition generally aren’t predictive.
Me too! I found out at 13 weeks. Complete shock couldn’t even speak real words for the whole ultrasound
Me too! My HCG levels were no different than my previous singleton pregnancies (unsuccessful pregnancies), so I thought for sure it was only one. At my viability scan at 7 weeks, it was confirmed that there were two! I tell everyone HCG and symptoms are not an indicator of twins. Only a scan will tell. And currently, at 32 weeks, even my belly doesn't indicate twins. People are shocked when I say I'm carrying two. And for reference, these twins are in the 70% for growth, so they are not small!
My provider doesn’t check HCG. The viability at 8 weeks they only saw 1, but didn’t even look for a second one because I had no reason to. My first trimester symptoms were nearly non existent, just being tired… I will say my belly at 32 weeks was very much twins haha
Sames. Just thought my nausea and exhaustion was off the charts because it was my second pregnancy. Never considered it to be twins. HCG was regular.
Same. I couldn’t have been less prepared for the idea of having twins (other than my partner always saying he would love twins and my first child saying from the start that there were two!!).
Yes and no. I'm a fraternal twin and had a feeling I'd have fraternal twin boys. I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks and had my first ultrasound at 8w6d. My symptoms were just nausea. Nothing to indicate more than one. Sure enough there were 2 in there, both stinky boys
Yes! Before my first OB appointment, I told my sister that I had a weird feeling I was having twins because I was having recurring dreams where there were two of everything (the one I remember most is a dream about two balloons floating in the air). I don’t have any twins in my family or reason to think I would have twins and I’ve never had a weird intuitive feeling like that, so I was a little freaked out by the first ultrasound!
Are you me?! I also dreamt about having twins twice before my first appointment. In one dream, a witch told me I was having twins and in another I saw two young women and I just knew they were my twin daughters. Turns out I was right about both - currently taking a contact nap with my girls.
Mine wasn’t, but my wife’s was.
I had a vivid and all- consuming dream a week before I found out I was pregnant. In the dream, I was breastfeeding twins, and I had never felt more right in my life, dreaming or awake. I was still totally and completely flummoxed and flabbergasted by the news at my first ultrasound.
I also had a vivid dream about having twins before I found out I was pregnant!! Then, right before I went for my first ultrasound, I told my boss that I had a weird feeling it was twins…
No. Not at all. I was completely blindsided by having twins and also never once guessed my kid's gender correctly. The most mild first trimester symptoms of all my pregnancies were with my twins. Didn't know I was pregnant until 10/11 weeks found out it was twins a couple weeks later.
Yes. I knew from the second my IUI was completed. They told me I had a higher than average (which is already high when going through treatment) chance of twins. Two mature follicles and a husband with no issues? He was in denial. The clinic was surprised when I wasn’t surprised to see two babies on the screen at my 7 week sono. I just knew from the jump.
For our first ultra sound we thought of the worst case scenario of baby loss … not once did it cross our minds ever that there would be two To this day it’s still the most surreal moment of my life, because it was so unexpected Your wedding and the births you at least can anticipate. Finding out the first time it’s multiples it’s unlike any other feeling
Me too. I was all but convinced they’d find a non-viable pregnancy. To see two little gummy bears with beating hearts is unlike anything by else I’ve experienced.
I was the exact same, went into the ultrasound expecting loss and got the complete opposite! I did however have lots of dreams of twins prior to the ultrasound but they looked like my daughter so I thought I was just dreaming she has a twin not that she was going to have twin siblings haha
I told my husband since we found out we were pregnant that I knew it was twins. I told him for weeks and went to an early ultrasound because I just knew it was twins and wanted it confirmed. It was in fact twins.
I drove my wife into our first appointment after confirming pregnancy and jokingly said “we won’t get the gender today but at least we’ll know we aren’t having twins” We’re having triplets
Yep. I just knew I was having twins to the point where the morning of my ultrasound I was saying over and over again “please don’t let me be right about twins” 🫠 no surprise when the ob said congrats! Twins! lol now I’m super happy with them and love them to pieces but I wasn’t too happy about my intuition at the start 😂
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Yes! I saw twins every where I went after getting a positive test. I couldn’t get the thought of twins out of my head—I thought I was losing my mind. On ultrasound day I thought “I will finally be able to let this idea go after today”. The ultrasound tech joked with us about twins before she started and just a few minutes in, she got really quiet and said “there is another one”. We thought she was joking again but she wasn’t!
My mom told my wife that my wife was gonna have twins. Twins don’t run in my family, my mom does practice Santeria, doesn’t have a crystal ball, but she is always oddly right when she calls the future.
My husband predicted it right before our first ultrasound!
I was totally blindsided. I had no idea. But prior to our ultrasound, almost every member of my family had made a joke about me having twins. And my husband wanted it so much, I’m pretty sure he willed the embryo to split lol
My wife's sure was. Early in the pregnancy she claimed she was carrying twins. Given that twins don't run in either of our families, and there was no IVF involved, I laughed and immediately dismissed the notion. Several months later, after the first ultrasound, I was no longer laughing.. (and sort of wondering if my wife was a witch).
My mom is a twin so I knew it was a possibility. I really felt it was twins but then only saw a singleton on the first, second and third ultrasound (even got past the NIPT test)!! Then finally baby B poked their head out and I was like I KNEW IT!
This is me right now. I can feel two different babies moving at the same time. It's like fireworks in there all the time. I can even feel them touching each other through the sac. I'm scared to go in the Dr. Office Friday and tell them this bc I know they will say I'm crazy bc I've had ultrasounds done, but I know in my heart something is big different this time. 3rd pregnancy... also 30 weeks and I understand it's wild to go this long without them knowing but I'm also fat and they couldn't even see my baby's face at my Anatomy scan.
Yeah. I kept having dreams about twins. I was really hungry, and really sick, too. So I just had this feeling. My dream gender prediction was wrong though — it was always b/g in my dreams, but in reality I’m having bb.
Not mine, but my husband was. The moment I showed him the positive pregnancy test he said “it’s twins”. I was more surprised he was correct than that I was actually having twins.
Exactly same thing happened to me!
The idea of twins somehow didn’t enter my mind! We did ivf and transferred two embryos but because of previous difficulty I just couldn’t imagine that both would take! Even when the HCG numbers were super high I was just like “neat, that’s one healthy baby!” In retrospect it’s so obvious but at the time it wasn’t something I even thought of
We had a similar experience, except that once the numbers started shooting up, we were pretty sure it was going to be twins.
Yes. After I found out I was pregnant I just kept talking to my tummy saying "babies" instead of just baby. It freaked my husband out when we found out I was right.
Same for us. I was referring to them as plural before we even knew. My husband was like “you manifested this” lol
Not sure if you agree, but it has been the best thing I have ever "manifested " in my life ♡
Totally agree! Makes me feel like we were meant for each other ❤️
My husband kept talking and saying goodnight to the “babies” and I would be like no there’s not two and sure enough there were
Yes. Was twice as sick and twice as fast as previous pregnancies. I guessed it
I didn't have any intuition but I had all the symptoms of a twin pregnancy ( severe nausea and vomiting that started early a very dark positive pregnancy test and moderate fatigue). I was extremely shocked when the tech told my husband and I we were having twins. I just thought pregnancy was kicking my butt this time around ( my singleton pregnancy was 6 weeks of mild morning sickness and fatigue that a mountain Dew couldn't fix). My mom did jokingly say before the first ultrasound "What if it is twins?"
lmao. no. my symptoms weren’t any more intense than with my boy!
The thought didn’t even cross my mind that I was having twins! I just that thought there was something seriously wrong with me or the baby because of the extreme pregnancy symptoms. I was actually so relieved when I found out I had having twins, obviously the whole pregnancy after that was extreme, but at least I was expecting it.
Nope. Me and mum had talked about it when I had my first (wouldn't it be nice to get 2 for 1 then be done etc etc) then the idea of me having twins completely left both of our consciousnesses. Mum has had twins, too. I remember telling her she had no idea how tired I was at 8 weeks and her saying "well i might because I had twins. You can't be more tired than I was then" and we STILL didn't wonder if it was twins. Spoiler alert: it was twins, and I was 15 years older than mum was when she was pregnant with twins. I WAS more tired than she ever knew. We were both shocked to the core to find out I was having two.
My husband knew somehow. Every time I would ask if he was hoping for a boy or a girl, he’d say, “I want twins, one of each,” and I would laugh and smack him for teasing me and not giving me a straight answer. Lo and behold, 40 weeks on the dot and an emergency c section later, we had twins. A boy and a girl. 🤦🏻♀️
You didn't know?
Nope! It’s a long story, but the short version is I opted out of hospital visits and had a midwife and doula instead, and my midwife didn’t have an ultrasound machine, which I was fine with since we didn’t want to know the gender and there are other ways to check baby’s size etc. I have issues with hospitals. I get panic attacks. So I was planning a home birth with the hospital being plan b. Due to my twins positioning, you couldn’t tell if there were two babies there. When we did go to the hospital and they did an ultrasound, it was still really hard for them to tell and took two different ultrasound machines and quite a good amount of time before they clear to see what was going on. Basically, a series of improbable events lol, all one after the other. Fortunately, I got almost all unisex newborn clothes, so we only had to buy another duplicate item for a few things.
Nope. Had an ultrasound to see how far along I was (7 weeks) and the tech informed me of twins!
My husband and I had been kind of joking about twins and I got my positive SUPER EARLY on 8dpo and it was already a very clear line, not even on FMU. So there was a part of me thinking maybe it’s twins?? But I still didn’t really think it would be 🤣
No intuition, but when I saw my HCG went up to like 120,000 on week 6 when I had to go to the ER for bleeding I knew something was up. 😂
Yes. My odds of getting it correct were better, I’d had two embryos implanted with IVF, but before pregnancy was confirmed, I knew both had taken. I wish I could say it was some kind of fun, joy, love feeling but actually I felt super bloated, super nauseous and strange!
Nope, I didn’t even believe I was actually pregnant. I only took a test to rule it out for a medication change - shock of my life being pregnant. I barely had any capacity for surprise left when we discovered twins at a dating scan 😂 I wouldn’t change anything now though
Yep. I had a feeling and told my friends. Had a dream I had triplets 1 boy and 2 girls. I then cracked open an egg with 2 yolks the day of my ultrasound at 12/13 weeks. Found out it was triplets but lost one.
I was hardly sick at all so I thought my pregnancy wasn’t going well before I finally got to have the ultrasound. Nope, it was fine and yep, it was twins! Lol
Yes. And I was not happy about it.
We were in the process of selling our truck to prepare for baby #2 and taking advantage of the high used market. My husband wanted a certain vehicle and I told him we should wait a couple weeks until our first appt just in case it was twins. We ended up with a minivan.
Not intuition but I made a joke to my husband the day before my first ultrasound about having twins. And then we get there, the doctor says, “oh it looks like I have a surprise for you,” and I just start laughing so hard I’m crying. Turns out, my estranged grandfather (my dad’s dad) was a fraternal twin and everyone knew twins ran in my family but me.
Just to confirm, per your post history you have not had an ultrasound yet and do not know if you are having twins, correct?
This is a fun thread. They aren’t asking us to tell them whether or not they’re having twins. Lighten up
The rules of this sub are no “aM i HaViNg TwInS?!” posts because even with the rule we get inundated with people fetishing having twins who are utterly convinced they’re having multiples for some dumbass reason or another. It’s not unreasonable to not allow that.
Are you okay lol
They didn’t ask if they were having twins though Editing to add: generally I completely agree with you, I’m just saying nothing in this particular post shows whether or not they have twins. It’s just a fun question. You had to go check their post history to find out that they don’t know if they have twins or not
I kept seeing twins all over my birth group on fb. I have no twins in my side of the family. I made little remarks to my husband about it like COULDNT BE US! Telling him how wild it was. Then I pulled up to my first ultrasound and just... had a feeling. And then there it was on the screen. 2 sacs. I was in denial and I didn't say a word. I kept staring and they finally stopped the ultrasound and stared back at me and asked one another "who's gonna tell her?" 🫠
My intuition was sort of correct. I felt like something was sort of “off”, just in how extreme my fatigue was. But it was also my first and only pregnancy, so I had no actual comparison and singleton pregnancies can cause extreme fatigue too. But I did make jokes about how I was carrying either twins or demon spawn. I wasn’t entirely serious though and it was still a huge shock, though I did feel strangely validated!
I had a fleeting thought on the back of a very bumpy quad ride 2days after conception, ”what if it’s twins?” And then I didn’t think about that again for 5 weeks until my first appointment when they said it was twins. I was gobsmacked. Obviously that’s not how I got my di/di twins. But funny I thought it, and the driver takes credit for the twins to the day haha!
Yes, I just felt different right away. I said it from 5 weeks and found out at just before 7 weeks
I had a dream it was twins before my first ultrasound and I still didn't think it was actually twins. So I guess my subconscious was right but not my intuition
Mine was anyway!
Before the ultrasound I had a thought, what’s the craziest thing that could happen? Well, it could be twins. And then there were two heartbeats, and my wife was in complete shock, and I just thought, yeah, that’s about right. Barely any surprise at all almost like I’d immunized myself to the shock by contemplating it beforehand.
Yes! I was taking a test everyday cause I was in disbelief. My hsg levels sky rocketed and the line was way way darker than the control line. With some googling I suspected twins. And was right! Just welcomed my didi twins 2 weeks ago.
This is so funny. I took a digital test the day of my missed period and it said it could take a minute for the result to show and immediately it popped up “pregnant” now I wonder how dark the line would have been if I took a test like that. Congrats on your babies!
My husband was convinced from the moment I got pregnant that it was going to be twins and I thought he was nuts. I was sure it was just one. And then with the pregnancies after that I was sure it was going to be twins again and both times it was just one My intuition is not reliable 😅
I thought it was boy/girl twins and I was right. My husband thought I was a little crazy until my first appointment.
I was convinced I was having twins my first pregnancy and nope - single baby!
I had a dream the night before my first ultrasound where I was handed two balloons. I sat down at the ultrasound and said “I’m just here so you can tell me it’s not twins because Im pretty sure it is.” She laughed. Within seconds said “funny you should say that…” I started sobbing. I had a 2 year old and a 16 month old AT the appt with me. We ended up with 6 kids and my mo/di twins are the most amazing girls and the coolest thing I’ve ever done!
I’m the dad, but yes it was.
I was terrified and so relieved they saw just 1 gestational sac on the ultrasound. Next appointment.. surprise, there were secretly 2. Am still terrified to this day (they're 13 months and have a 3 y/o sister).
I was so oblivious. My dad is a fraternal twin so I easily could have had twins to start but I totally forgot about it. Here I am with identical twins that aren’t hereditary.
Nope…there was a third one in there.
Yes. We were monitoring my HCG for possible tubal pregnancy & my symptoms appeared very early and very strong. I was so sick and my breasts were on fire. My HCG was rising way too quickly. So I of course googled the symptoms and HCG rising fast and it went to multiples or Down Syndrome. And twins run very heavily in my family. But Down Syndrome does not. So I instantly knew it was twins. Plus my husband said “you know we’re having twins right”. He jinxed it. So I guess it was really his intuition.
Yes! The night before my ultrasound I told my mom I had a weird feeling that I was either further along than I thought or that I was having twins bc I just felt like I was looking bigger than I should be. My mom was like “no there’s no twins in our family so you don’t have to worry about that” LOL
Yes.
Yes!! I didn’t have my first ultrasound until close to 14 weeks but for at least a month before that I was telling my husband it was going to be twins. I was really sick but my mom was too with her singleton pregnancies so I didn’t really think that was the reason. I just really felt it. No other way to explain it. I had dreams about it too and dreams they were both girls before we found that out. I don’t really believe in that kind of stuff so it was really freaky. I would literally have dreams of doctors appointments that I hadn’t been to yet and what they would say to me and it all happened
No not at all. My twin pregnancy was not planned every refused to go to the doctors. I got really sick at 15 weeks we to ER I thought I was having a miscarriage but no .. I got told I was pregnant with twins 🤣
Yes! It was my third pregnancy and I felt really different, so weak and sick. Before the first ultrasound appointment my dad said say hi to the babies for me!
My twins caught me and my spouse completely unaware 😅 it hadn't even crossed our minds as a possibility.
Yes. I knew it was a possibility and definitely hoped for it since we did fertility treatment (IUI - two mature eggs). I had awful period-like cramps the whole first trimester, and sometimes it was painful to pee.. My first ever time talking to them (before I definitely knew) was me trying to pee at 6 weeks and saying "babies let mommy pee." One week later confirmed babies, plural.
I had a dream about two butterflies before my ultrasound....it was twins.
Yes, I had a dream I had twins the night before the scan, but in the dream they were boys and I now have beautiful 3 month old girls so I guess I’m not 100% psychic! I also felt very pregnant very quickly with tiredness and sickness not long after I’d taken the pregnancy test and it felt uncomfortable to lie on my stomach almost straight away even though I was far from showing, I kind of thought it was a placebo effect! I was still absolutely shocked at the scan though
My mother already had 4 singletons and her 5th pregnancy belly was measuring farther along. It wasn’t she was nearly 5 months along that they took an X-ray and could see 2 fetuses! X-ray because this was long before ultrasounds!!!
Night before my first ultrasound just thought “it’s twins.” 🤷♀️
Yes
Right before I had the ultrasound like a minute before I had a weird thing tell me it was twins like a feeling then yeah I thought I’d have one and one tho not twin girls
I was so so sick so I had a little voice in my head say “maybe it’s twins”. I said ha that’s dumb, then boom it was twins lol
No. I thought I was having 5 babies all at once. I was pregnant with three, lost one early on and ended up with twins.
Yes
My husband and I transferred 1 embryo as part of IVF. Our HCG numbers were really high from the start. He joked “it’s twins”. I was like - “nah just high numbers”. Appointment at 7 weeks showed di di twins 😂. Our doctor said we conceived naturally and had one via IVF. This was a shock because our IVF doctor and urologist said chances of natural conception for us are super low given poor sperm parameters
I knew from really early on it was twins. I was so sick and had abdominal fullness from the start. No one else in my family had been sick like I was. I kept telling my husband that it was twins or one really fiery girl. I had a dream the night before out ultrasound that I yelled at the tech for it being twins. As we were walking in I told my husband that I thought it was twins and he better pray it wasn't triplets. We saw both of our girls right away. To be fair, twins run in my family.
Yes! I kept telling everyone before my first scan there was at least 2 in there and everyone called me crazy my twins are now 9 months old 😋
Well we put two embryos in with IVF during a round that was nearly cancelled twice. When the early pregnancy got debilitating I knew somehow both had taken and that it was twins as the exhaustion was on a totally different level.
Well… I guess when I was 12, I told my cousin “I will never have kids because when I do decide to have a kid, I’ll have twins” oopies #1 I was at a sublime / Incubus concert. I didn’t know I was pregnant. I smoked 2 joint while listening to “smoke 2 joints” and I said the comment “watch… imma found out I’m pregnant and have twins now” dark humor and oopies #2. Then on our way to work, my boyfriend got a skunk and I puked everywhere. Like non stopped puked. My boyfriend said “I think you’re pregnant” I was in denial. Next morning, found out I was pregnant. Week after founding out I was pregnant, found out I was 10 weeks pregnant with twins.
I had a feeling like a week before but didn't want to speak it into existence so I didn't tell my husband. Oops. My sister had a dream that was I was pregnant when I was *days* pregnant and had no idea - thought that was freaky too.
Yep! I always said since I was little that I wanted boy girl twins. The morning of my ultrasound I was in the bathroom getting ready and I heard the word “twins” over and over again in my mind. Not like I was saying it, like someone else was. I got my boy girl twins!!
Had HCG levels that were 2-3x the normal range at 4w3d and 4w5d
Before I actually tested I dreamt I took a pregnancy test and it came back with 4 lines and I said “oh that means it’s twins!” And sure enough…. 🙃
I made a joke that because the strip came positive WAY early, it was probably twins. In my heart, I didn't actually believe that - but holy hell, it was twins!
We ended up with an early ultrasound due to spotting and I t9ld my husband i wouldn't be surprised if it was twins. They'll ve 8 months in a week 😀
Totally knew I was having twins. I posted on this sub with the exact same question because I just knew!!
When I was a little girl I used to dream I had boy and girl twins a lot. When I struggled with fertility (recurrent miscarriage) and knew I wanted two I commented with my luck we'd finally have a baby then have twins. We had my daughter Nov 2020 then I got pregnant and since we had a natural cycle with her on metformin we didn't go through a clinic I started metformin before we started trying again. I had an easy first trimester with them (I was so sick with my first) so before my first scan at 9 weeks I said to my husband worst case no baby other worst case more than one (to lighten the mood, bc I was sure with the lack of symptoms I would lose them) We immediately saw two babies. I think I somehow manifested them to be twins since it was going to be my last pregnancy. Not sure if that counts as intuition but I've always found it odd! Now my boy girl twins will be 2 next Friday
My husband thought it was twins the whole time and he was right 😂
Nothing lmao. My pregnancy was a dream, no sickness etc just back pain towards the end which is understandable. My partner and I were discussing if we thought it was a girl or a boy before our scan. I said I had a feeling it was a girl, he said boy. Turns out we were both correct.
I told my husband the second the second line showed up “it might be twins” lol. I guessed because it wasn’t even a week past ovulation. Then the morning sickness was so so severe (ended up with HG) that I knew it was different than my first. I also got pregnant 2 weeks after a miscarriage and I had a sneaking suspicion my body dropped more than one egg in order to clear house. We found out there were two at 9 weeks and I kept saying “I knew it!”
Not necessarily intuition but I did see a double rainbow the week before I found out lol I tweeted about it saying “aww saw a double rainbow today!” Still trips me out whenever I think about it lol
My maternal grandmother had 11 kids, 2 of them are fraternal twins. I’ve got countless cousins on that side (literally, I stopped counting about ten years ago at 23 cousins. Most of those cousins have their own kids now too) and no twins besides the one set. For no rhyme or reason my youngest sister and I have always been convinced that one of the two of us will have twins. After four losses, on our very last try, boom. Fraternal girls. We call them our full on double rainbow 😂 PS keep us posted! I’m invested now and I want to know if you’re having twins lol. Either way, good luck with everything to come!
We had been joking around that it was twins and growing up I always said I wanted twin boys. First ultrasound comes along, and the ultrasound tech said “well guys, it’s twins!” I cried on the table and my husband was trying to process the news 🤣 They are almost 9 months and we love them so much💛
Yes! Told my mom and my husband “I just feel like there’s two…” first ultrasound I was so proud to be be right 😂
I hadn’t fully processed it but yes, I had a gut feeling. Knew when the ultrasound tech was taking a little too long.
I was joking about it being twins constantly. And it was. Now my wife blames me :D
I had absolutely no idea. I knew that I was debilitatingly sick but I had no idea I was about to get the shock of my life. However, my boyfriend’s mom knew immediately. Edit; wanted to add she is also a twin mom which may be why she was able to predict it
Yes, I had a very vivid dream about having twins weeks before I became pregnant. I just knew.
I was already showing at 6/7 weeks when I was just finding out I was pregnant. So I 100% though I was having twins. Didn't help that I was also having dreams about it too. So when I got my first ultrasound at the ER (had COVID before my first OB appointment) when the doctor told me he thought he saw two I didn't react. My husband on the other hand freaked out lol
I had scheduled an early ultrasound at a free clinic because I didn’t want to wait till 20 weeks like our OB typically does for a normal pregnancy. The week before I had a little bit of spotting so they did bloodwork and our HCG was astronomically higher than it should have been (I was tracking my periods and such so I knew exactly how far along I was). I remember calling my mom, who was a maternity nurse for years and asking her “could this be twins?” And she said it was possible but she said I probably just had my timing off. At the ultrasound appointment the people at the clinic asked why I wanted an early ultrasound and I jokingly said “just want to make sure there’s only one in there!” Then 10 minutes later… surprise it’s twins! I just had that feeling after I saw the numbers that it wasn’t just a singleton.
I was correct! I actually told the person at the r ultrasound, keep looking, I think it’s twins. She was shocked but a couple seconds later she found the second heartbeat.
Yes. I said to literally at least 6 of my friends I think it's twins the day I got the positive!
Yeah, my wife predicted the gender and that they’d be identical like… 10 or more years ahead of time.
I was saying I felt like it was twins as soon as I found out I was pregnant! The night before I found out the genders I had a dream that me and two little girls were dancing around a fire and they ended up being girls 🥰
The night before our first ultrasound I had a thought pop in my head about how crazy it would be to have twins and all the extra work/things we would need. About 15 minutes later my wife casually mentions that she thinks we might have twins since she was so much hungrier than she was with our first. We both laughed about how weird it was we both had the same thought around the same time. Well sure enough the next day at the ultrasound we got the "here's baby A..."
Yes. With my first pregnancy I was a little sick and a little tired. With them I was vomiting so much and and if I sat down I was asleep. I was sobbing in the appointment before the ultrasound it is either a boy or twins because my daughter hadn’t done this to me. With it being the start of Covid I hadn’t been able to get in until almost 12 weeks so as soon as the picture popped up it was pretty obvious there was two!
My first HCG was high and I was googling if it was normal and it was in the normal range for both a singleton and twins. Husband and I joked what if it was twins. But I didn’t “feel” like it was twins
I thought I was having a miscarriage (subchorionic hemorrhage), so i was expecting zero and turned out with two. It was a shocking twist of events.
This happened with my aunt and uncle who were already parents to my oldest cousin! My cousin G was 6 at the time my aunt became pregnant! She asked G if she wanted a brother or sister, and she surprisingly replied she wanted both. My aunt was like “Nah, you gotta pick one or the other” 😂G wouldn’t budge and sustained her original claim! When the time came for the ultrasound, lo and behold it was boy/girl twins! My aunt was in shock that G was right! After recovering from the shock, my aunt and uncle were very excited! This was back in 2009! G is now 21 and my twin cousins D (boy) and S (girl) are now 15!
I SWORE I was having triplets. Very happy to only be having twins ❤️ zero sickness so far at 15w5d!
Yesss. My husband didn’t believe me, I didn’t have twins in my family but I kept telling him that I was pretttttyyyy sure it was twins. First ultrasound confirmed it and he just yelled, “how did you know?!” Not even sure what convinced me but here we are!
Yes! But less intuition and more thinking that if I’m this sick it must be more than one baby…
I always wanted twins. I just had a feeling I was meant to have them. Months b4 I got pregnant it was all I thought about. I used to have phantom pregnancies were I felt pregnant but never was, and I always assumed twins bc I felt strong nausea. When I actually was pregnant, my dads reaction was “well, I hope it’s twins,” and later doesn’t remember saying it?? So before my ultrasound it was on my mind. I would confidently joke about “maybes it’s twins,” “you never know it could be more than 1,” and acting like it would 100% happen, and I would come back to tell them it was twins…I had 0 doubts. But for some reason when it actually showed up on the ultrasound I was still shocked and very much freaked out.
I had a thought when I was a teenager that I might have twins- random I know. When I got hit with horrible morning sickness my mother said "I wonder if it's twins" and I laughed her off knowing it wasn't really indicative. The joke was on me! We had names picked out for years, and I would try and visualise "who" it was. I always felt like they both were there and couldn't get a clear sense of which "one" was "missing" though. And they both were.
I was seeing twin things everywhere in the wild! Billboards promoting our local twin festival, local Facebook groups talking about their twins, read a book that had twins in it. I told my husband it’s gonna be twins. My mom said it was gonna be twins. Lo and behold- twins. Lol
Well there’s lots of stories here but this is mine. I went for an extra early ultrasound but even thought my pregnancy test was positive and my hcg was super high, they couldn’t see a sac. My fertility doctor was so upset he said it was an ectopic pregnancy but when they didn’t know where it was (tubes were clear). I cried so many tears, another miscarriage and they said I would need chemo and couldn’t try again for a half a year. I was devastated. But somewhere in the back of my brain I thought, but it could be twins. I feel pregnant - I knew what it felt like. It could just be early. Since I was so use to being disappointed, I shoved that thought down and prepared for the worse. 12/16/2022 - I had another ultrasound and was totally shocked and soo happy. I was blessed with my little twin babies. Best news ever and so glad my intuition was right. Best of luck to you 💕
A few weeks before we found out I was pregnant and expecting our twins I was sitting on the couch with my husband and randomly brought up how I thought it would be pretty cool to have a twin sibling. My husband disagreed and said he likes having his individuality, but I felt like it was something special and sorta wished I had had a twin sister. Looking back we wondered if perhaps subconsciously I knew something about having twins but I just wasn't aware that I was pregnant with them.
I was more sick than with my son, I thought that maybe because I am older and when I saw my elevated hcg levels I did think about it.... And yeah twins
Had no idea it was twins but I knew I had a boy. Went to our first ultrasound at the fertility clinic at 6 weeks after positive HCG results and I was feeling pregnant. This was my second pregnancy so I knew the feeling and I wasn’t nervous about whether or not the embryo transfer worked. And I knew it was a boy. At the time I was hoping for a girl. But then, nope! Identical twin boys found at 6 weeks
I knew. I knew because my hcg was 30% higher than the average at 5weeks. I texted my husband, “my hcg is normally high and that’s a sign of twins” and proceeded to google “sure signs of a twin pregnancy” and then gaslight myself into thinking I was crazy. I had awful exhaustion and morning sickness. Always sick and vomiting. Come my 9 week appointment, and we indeed found out there were twins!
I didn’t have any intuition about it. I noticed I was more tired and gaining weight much faster than with my first two pregnancies, but thought maybe I was just farther along than I actually was. Surprise!
Yes ! My husband and I both joked about it even in the US apt before we found out. I felt extra tired and extraaa hungry at the beginning and also had dreams of two. The one I talked about the most before the US was a horse having two baby colts at a farm house and I was in a third person perspective. I’m currently 36+4 with mono/di 😭soooo ready !
Yes I was super sick right away and had a feeling. Even though it doesn't run in the family. Weird
100% It was pretty wild. Before I even could test, I had a very vivid dream that I would be having twins. I woke up and just knew. I told my husband and parents even. I ended up testing earlier than I should (I didn’t have the early tester) and the line was super solid. I just knew. I started researching twin things immediately. Sure enough, we are having twins. I even knew their sex.
Yes, actually! I felt like I was bigger sooner than with one, but I told myself that it was due to a second pregnancy. On the way to the ultrasound I joked with my husband that we would have to get a bigger car because it was going to be twins. This honestly came out of my subconscious, just from nowhere. Has this happened before to people where you word-vomit a number or idea that immediately pops into your head, and then it turns out true?? Anyway, I said, "Don't worry, I'm just kidding. Statistically our chances are really low." An hour later we were seeing two heartbeats in an ultrasound. They're eleven and we STILL sometimes can't believe we have twins.
Not my intuition, but my husband’s! He said something about twins when I got the positive test, I told him off. Fast forward to 7 weeks and we two on the ultrasound. They’ve just turned one and I’m still (jokingly) mad at him for being right about it! 😅 (Not mad about twins, to be clear, having twins is so cool, just that he was right!)
No
When my husband and I were a fresh couple we were talking about wanting kids in the future and he said “you might have twins.” And I thought he was teasing me about it so I laughed it off, because that’s so uncommon! He would mention it any time we were talking about babies. Anyway I got pregnant years down the road and he kept throwing “it’s twins” around and laughing about it, again I laughed it off haha very funny. Went to my first appointment at 11 weeks and had an ultrasound and there was 1 baby. I said “that’s awesome because my husband’s been teasing me about twins.” And then at 15 weeks I wanted to do a gender ultrasound for shits n giggles and there were two. My husband let me tell you, busted out laughing. He predicted I was going to have twins for years! That was the most insane plot twist of my life in that very moment lol. The only time I even had an inkling that I was having twins was when I noticed how big my belly looked at like 13 weeks or so, and even then I was mainly like “yeah right.”
Absolutely was! I just knew before I even got pregnant, we would joke and even have family joke…then we got pregnant and at 6 weeks I went to the midwife for my appt! I said I thought it might be twins because I have XYZ symptoms and she laughed. Went to my private viability ultrasound straight after and the first thing she said was: “are these your first? Here’s baby A” I was like 🥹 “so there’s a baby B?” I just knew ✨
Also caveat - I didn’t have any sickness at all but I did have a very very very early positive and I had crippling cramps where I thought I might have appendicitis
Yes
Yes. I told my doctor that I must be having twins because my pregnancy test came up positive very quickly at 3 1/2 weeks pregnant. Like a really strong dark line. I went to my first ultrasound and there was only one baby went to my second ultrasound, and there was only one baby. Went to my 14 week gender ultrasound. The second baby was hiding behind the 1st baby. I have identical twin boys, they were mono di- one placenta.
Yes
Yess! When I found out I was pregnant, I just knew it was twins. I was also getting a lot of reccommed videos on YouTube about twin pregnancies or targeted ads lol it was kinda weird to the point where I kept having to remind myself that I don't even know if I'm actually having twins yet lol. First ultrasound, I saw the two sacks immediately and instantly started laughing because I was right the whole time. Also my brother (who is 5 years older than me) told me after I found out that I was expecting twins that when I was little maybe around 2-3yo I would always talk about "my twins" and "me and my twins" so I guess he caught me when I still remembered any soul contracts I made before coming to earth LOL Either way, twins or a singleton congratulations! and I hope you have a good and healthy pregnancy 🫶🏼
I posted my pregnancy test on r/tfablineporn and someone commented that it was really bright for the time since ovulation and after that I was convinced it was twins. We had been trying for a year and a half so I tried really hard to get myself to believe it might just be one baby so that if it was I could be happy rather than disappointed, but I couldn't convince myself and luckily it ended up being two and I was even happier. That was a great day.
Yes, it was right!
I never would have guessed in a million years I was pregnant with twins lol. Shocked is an understatement
Mine was very correct! With my other two pregnancies, my husband and I would joke that it was twins but we never felt it was. This time, as soon as we found out I was pregnant, we both said it was twins. We knew in our guts it was twins. My symptoms started getting more aggressive than with my other pregnancies and that just made me feel even more certain it was twins. We told everyone I was eating for 3 because we were so sure. The ultrasound came and instantly saw twins. I said “I fucking knew it was twins!!!” And then apologized for cussing😂
Also I got a positive pregnancy test at 3w3d
Yep! I was like "why is my hcg too high but not molar high..." My hcg was running a week ahead. Would have had to gotten pregnant during my period to make it make sense. I attempted to back calculate it by halving it every 2 days and it would have been positive before it was possible to be pregnant. I guess it was a bit more logic than intuition. But hcg is weird and even if it was excessively high it still didn't really point to twins technically. I wasn't any sicker though. I was still zero sick. For the record I intiuted that my 3rd would be twins but she wasn't lol. I just really wanted twins for some reason. And I'm loving having them for 4 and 5.
My grandma passed away two years before I had my twins. In the summer before she passed she had a dream that I'd have twins. She was right! ❤️ (They run in the family, her mum was a twin two, and her cousins, and great-aunts, etc.)
What intuition?? There was no intuition. It was like getting hit by a Mack truck. Immediate meltdown/panic attack. Neither my husband or I even considered the possibility of twins lmao
Yeah 8dpo I had a dream that I needed a new car cuz mine couldn't fit enough car seats, and then a second dream on the same day I got a positive test where I looked down at my stomach and there were multiple things squirming under the surface and then I birthed a whole pile of ostrich looking eggs lol . I kept telling my husband I was so paranoid and just felt like there were multiple inside me . Then I got more nausea than I had with my son . My friend was convinced that meant I was having a girl but I was like ugh IDK dude ... 😅
My first pregnancy I felt like death from the day I conceived until like a year after I delivered my son. I went into my twin ultrasound telling my husband it was likely an ectopic pregnancy since I didn't feel deathlike enough to actually be pregnant. Hilarious....
Not sure if it was intuition but I was SUPER sick before my first ultrasound and I had the thought of “wouldn’t it be nice if it was twins so I only have to go through this once?” I vividly remember having the thought, but by the time the ultrasound came around a couple days later it had already left my mind enough that I was in complete shock when I got the news lol
Yeah, I went to my first OB appointment and listened to heartbeat, then found out they weren’t going to do an ultrasound. I asked my doctor if she would have heard a 2nd heartbeat if it was twins, and told her I had a feeling it was. Thank goodness she immediately sent me for the ultrasound based on my hunch! I had already joked about it with the grandparents, and discussed budget and how we’d manage with my husband. Twins didn’t run in the family. I was quite certain I felt implantation pain in two separate locations (this was my primary reason to think twins), followed by light cramping in those same two areas a few weeks after that. I had tested positive very early & dark, and was very sick first trimester (first pregnancy, nothing to compare to). Everything in the internet told me it wasn’t likely, but I was convinced. I think the US tech was a little confused that we weren’t more surprised, and even asked if we had already known there were two.
Yes!! I had super high HCG, which can mean a lot of things, but I was so certain it meant twins
This! Wife’s HCG was double what we experienced with our first born singleton, we were joking about “can you imagine if it’s twins..” Jokes on us
somehow the thought of having twins was around the eclipse. i was pregnant by then but didn’t have my first appointment then. it’s superstitious not to go out during that day if you’re pregnant. i went outside and thought to myself “omg what if this makes me have twins” a silly thing that i know is impossible but i found out i was having twins a few days later. i even kept asking my boyfriend “what if it’s twins” it’s a blessing!
Not me but my husband. We found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks and for the next four weeks until our first ultrasound when we talked about them he swore up and down it was twins and ended up being right