After chatting with my doctor for a bit, she listened for the babies’ heartbeats with a fetal Doppler ultrasound. I was about 14 weeks pregnant at the time and, since the appointment was routine (we had just had an ultrasound, and everything was looking good), I told Chris to go to work while I went to the visit on my own. But during a routine visit to my ob-gyn, everything changed. Chris and I started sending each other YouTube montages of the crazy things twins do, and I even ordered him a silly shirt that said “Real Men Make Twins.” We were so excited for the future. We made it to the second trimester, when the risk of miscarriage lowers dramatically, and we had fun telling everyone we talked to that not only were we pregnant, we were going to have identical twins. RELATED: 9 Women Share What Pregnancy Was Like In Their 20s, 30s, And 40s They also aced genetic screening around 12 weeks. That made my pregnancy more high risk than fraternal twins, who have their own sacs and placenta, but less high risk than twins that share a sac and placenta.īecause the pregnancy was high risk, we were given multiple scans and all of them painted the same picture: The babies were active and growing on track.

But twins are automatically deemed a high-risk pregnancy by doctors-and ours were what’s known as monochorionic-diamniotic twins, meaning they had different amniotic sacs but shared a placenta. Once we got over the initial shock, we were thrilled. About seven weeks into the pregnancy, I had my first ultrasound and the results blew us away: We were expecting identical twins. It only took a few months of trying before I was pregnant-and we were both excited. It took six months of long talks, but Chris finally said he wanted to expand our family, too. I couldn’t explain it, but something deep inside me felt that our family wasn’t complete. My husband Chris and I had always assumed that we’d have two kids and call it a day, but I burst into tears when he mentioned getting a vasectomy after our baby was born. I started campaigning to have a third child when I was still pregnant with my second son.

Lost twins at 13 weeks