mommytoIsabella

Mommy2BAK wrote: OMG!!! I just saw your pics on myspace that said you were pregnant with TWINS!!!!! WOW, thats so exciting. I thought it was gonna be a few weeks before you found out, but anyways... CONGRATS!!!!!

moped replied: Show pics - show pics show pics!!!!!!!

Calimama replied: Congratulations.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: AWWWW!!!! 2 babies! I always wanted to have twins!

luvmykids replied: Sounds like congratulations are in order Can't wait to see the u/s!

lovemy2 replied: Oh good news - didn't know you already had the ultrasound - that's great

boyohboyohboy replied: Jess, congrats! show the pics!

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I thought the ultrasound was August 2 or 3? Anyway, congrats.

Our Lil' Family replied:
Me too.....

Mommy2Isabella replied: We don't know FOR SURE!!

i posted this in another post but ... we believe HIGHLY in speaking your dreams and goals, so we are speaking twins, HAPPY EITHER WAY! But speaking twins!

We have an official counting U/S on August 2nd or 3rd. We will definetly know then! Sorry to dissapoint guys.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: You have wayyyy more self control than I do! I would be in the doctor's office everyday bugging them until they gave me another sono and did not stop until they knew for sure! We heard Tay's heartbeat with a dopler at about 10 weeks...can they hear 2 heart tones? Sorry if you posted the answer somewhere else...I haven't been on much.

Mommy2Isabella replied: We haven't been able to hear the heartbeat yet, we should on August 3rd!!

Mommy2BAK replied:
OOHH- So are you just telling all of your friends and family that and hoping for the best?

Ya know, thats not a half bad idea (the whole speaking your dreams things). Because I REALLY want to win the lottery... so I think I'm going to start telling people I did.

punkeemunkee'smom replied:

Now there is an idea!

redplaydoh replied:

Ok, then I'm going to start telling everyone that I'm a size 6

lovemy2 replied:
Well guess what I am going to start telling everyone I am a size 6 AND I won the lottery

Mommy2BAK replied:
Hey shoot big, right?!

Calimama replied:


So what happens if you don't have twins? Do you have to UN-tell everyone?

Mommy2Isabella replied: HAHAH!!

Speak what you want like you already have it ...

You've never heard that before!!

Bellasmommy10 - I never thought of that ... I guess I do have to un-tell them!
My family knows about the u/s being done on august 3rd or 2nd whichever, so no big shocker for them, my non internet friendsk know as well. I guess for my internet friends I will have to break the news though.

* Kind of a Taboo subject, I don't want people to think we are going to be upset if it isn't twins, we are just SO EXCITED to be pregnant again, we can barely contain ourselves!! We will be EXCITED no matter what the outcome of the U/S in august. *

Speaking you won the lottery might be a little different ... I don't know though, I will have to ask my life coach about that one!!

My life coach has performed 2 miracles in our life already < me getting pregnant ... so whats one more < twins ... ?

redchief replied:
Forgive my ignorance... WTH is a life coach?

Mommy2Isabella replied: Forgiven ...

A life coach to me ... God , and my mentor Dayna

Just someone to help you understand things, someone to talk to and someone to go to with questions about anything.

Same thing as a Mentor really!

gr33n3y3z replied:

redchief replied: Ahh... Gotcha!

Cece00 replied:
Me, too. I have like no patience when it comes to that sort of thing.

tammyhopkins replied: Sorry i am cutting in here late but didn't you go for an ultrasound at about 6 to 8 weeks? A friend of mine was able to find out when she was 8 weeks along that there were twins.

Anyway just wondering, I think if i spoke what i thought all the time i would be dissappointed alot. Just my thoughts on that.

moped replied: Sort of along the same lines as the book "The Secret"?

Mommy2Isabella replied: Great book that book the Secret! I had an Ultrasound awhile ago that showed 1 baby, but my dr. is still keeping a close eye, he thinks the possibility of twins is still rather high.

Thats the reason we are getting ANOTHER u/s done on august whatever, they are going to do an indepth u/s really look around and see if they can't find a second one.

moped replied:
Fingers crossed!

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Exciting, I can't wait for you to find out for sure. Fingers crossed!

DillsMommy replied: Fingers crossed. That's very exciting, twins would be so cool!
Do you go on the 2nd or 3rd??

Mommy2Isabella replied: For the life of me cannot remeber what day my appt. is on. ... I will post as soon as I return from the appt. so no worries !

Sam & Abby's Mom replied:

luvmykids replied:
Do you have twins in your family?

Mommy2Isabella replied: Yes, My family, and Sal's family. I was a twin, my twin passed away at birth.

There are twins on my mother and my fathers side, as well as sals mothers and fathers side as well ..

I suppose we are destined at some time to have them ... lol

Danalana replied: Just a word on speaking the "I won the lottery" thing....don't do it if you don't at least buy a ticket I'm a wise person!

Calimama replied:
Was Bella a twin as well? I remember you saying in a thread that Bella's twin "disappeared"?

ETA the link to the thread. http://forums.parentingclub.com/index.php?showtopic=64030

Mommy2Isabella replied: Ya her twin disappeard when I was around 10 weeks. They saw it in the U/S before, and then the next one it was just one baby!

tammyhopkins replied: Well good luck i wish you luck. That will be very exciting if you have twins .... twin baby dust to you........

luvmykids replied:
I never thought of it, but I wonder what the odds are for two twin pg's in a row? Has your doc mentioned anything about that? I bet that would be a head scratcher for him

Maddie&EthansMom replied: You might do a search, but I think you would be the first confirmed case to have that many twins in one family. It's rare that they would be that common. Normally they skip a generation. My brothers are twins.

Seriously...you might could be in the guiness book of world records.

TANNER'S MOM replied: My sister in law had a miscarriage and they told her when they did the D&C it was twins. She later got PG and had a single baby. Now she is 5 months with her 3rd suprise baby. They thought it might be twins b/c she was huge. At her first dr's visits they ruled that with a blood test and listening at the heartbeats. They went ahead and did a ultrasound but only baby. They said the more you have the more your body knows what to do. She is a size 0 without being pregnant. So when she PG everyone can tell. So maybe she just looked huge.

Mommy2Isabella replied: There was a lady on tv that had twins 3 TIMES!

Its not like EVERYONE in my family is a twin. But there are twins on each side in each family. I don't know if that is uncommon!

Brias3 replied: There are twins in my family too, but they skip a generation. We think. My grandma had twin siblings, and my mom miscarried twins before my youngest brother was born. Her cousin also has twins. However, one of my great-grandmother's was one of 21 children- 4 sets of twins! I think its my generation, according to the pattern...lucky I'm done!!

jem0622 replied:

How do you not know for sure? Or do they not want to commit to anything because you are not out of the danger zone? I lost a twin with my oldest son. And then I had two singleton pregnancies (one ended in a m/c), and then my girls.

Woooohoooooooo! So excited! Fingers and toes crossed for you!

redplaydoh replied: My great grandmother had 3 sets of twins, not back-to-back but she also had a total of 21 kids!

They thought I was having twins early on too and did a few second looks only to find out it was a fibroid that was making me measure further along than what I was.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: There are twins in my family and in dh's family as well. DH's grandmother had 3 sets of twins. Two babies died at birth (on twin from different sets) and the other set survivied.

I'm hoping for some myself.

Mommy2Isabella replied: I had a fibroid with Bella ...

None this time around!

mummy2girls replied:
you had a fibriod or a twin? i cant remember what it was?

DillsMommy replied: Can they tell from early blood work if someone is carrying twins? Or is that done further along?

redchief replied:
Fibroids are benign uterine growths, actually a type of non-cancerous tumor. They don't come and go like a sinus headache. They're permanent. They can shrink, but they don't go away. They usually don't begin to shrink until after child-bearing years.

Find out more about fibroids here!

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I have many fibroids.

Tiny ones, but they're there.

PERMANENTLY.

Our Lil' Family replied:
Which is it? Fibroid or twin?????

Cece00 replied: The most sets of twins born to any one woman was 16. Just some random FYI.

My3LilMonkeys replied:
Someone kept trying to have babies for that long!!! I can't imagine having 15 sets of twins and thinking hmm....I'd like another baby!

Hillbilly Housewife replied: so 32 babies?

Cece00 replied:
Nope, 69 total

>>Multiple Births in History

Mrs. Fyodor Vassilyev (also known as Mrs. Feodor Vassiliev or Mrs. Fyodor Vassilet) of Shuya, Russia (1707-1782), 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, 4 sets of quadruplets

Mrs. Vassilyev gave birth to 69 children, 67 of whom survived infancy with most surviving to adulthood.
She was the 1st wife of Mr. Vassiliev, and they lived outside of Shuya, Russia, and were peasants who farmed off the land. The children were born between 1725 and 1765. It was reported and recorded by a monastery in 1782. Empress Ekaterina the 2nd was supposedly very captivated by the story. It is the only authenicated case of a woman having more than 60 children. It is believed that she and her husband eventually split up, as he did remarry.

Other notable families with multiple multiples include Mrs. Mary Jones of Chester, England, who gave birth to 15 sets of fraternal boy-girl twins in the 19th Century and Maddalena Granata (1839-1866) of Nocera Superiore, Italy, who allegedly had 15 sets of triplets.

redchief replied:

I get this vision of of the queen bee in the hive just pumping out kids.

ETA Sorry Crystal... Didn't mean to trump your answer.

AND

They had fun in the 1700's didn't they? Had they never heard of the rhythm method?

AND

No wonder there was a population explosion.

Cece00 replied:
I just edited it for more information.

My3LilMonkeys replied:
WOW WOW WOW....I just can't even imagine.....69 kids!!

That's 27 pregnancies.....

Kind of makes me wonder if she had some sort of odd disease or disorder to have so many multiples and no single children....must have had some VERY overactive ovaries at least!

DillsMommy replied:
So how many years of being pregnant, is that? I don't feel like doing the math...

punkeemunkee'smom replied: 290 months-figuring she went to term with all of them but with multiples probably not- would be aprox 24 years! WOW!!!

She must have really loved babies

punkeemunkee'smom replied:
I have fibroids too-sometimes they have mentioned them during a sono/exam sometimes not. My OB did mention them recently when we have been discussing options for my anemia because they can cause excessive blood loss-from what I have been told. I guess I did not realize that they don't go away(ovarian cysts which I also have had, do)...I do know for sure that I had one tear away once because I ended up in the hospital because of it and I have had one 'twist' as well.That is PAIN!!!

Is it possible that they mistook your fibroid for a twin with Bella? I know that they can distort the size of your uterus as well. Whatever the deal is-I hope they get you some answers soon! Like I said I would be going

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang that's alot of kids !!!!!!

DillsMommy replied:

luvmykids replied: And I imagine she nursed too back in that day and time She was a better woman than me

A&A'smommy replied: goodness thats too many kids I would have been out of my mind.. and how did she remember all of their names??? I had trouble teaching dance class and remembering all my kids names and the most I had in one class was 20

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That's what she'd said... that they'd thought there was a "twin" with Bella, but it "dissapeared", and turned out to be a "fibroid", but now the "fibroid" has dissapeared as well.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: OH I thought a fibroid and a twin...maybe just a fibroid before but now not one?

I think I am confused...

holley79 replied:
That is totally amazing that most of them lived through infancy back then. You figure women then were probably in better shape then we are now. I cant not even fathom. Not to mention all the nursing she did, goodness.

Our Lil' Family replied: Well apparently she is not coming back to clear this up....hmmmm....

lovemy2 replied:
This or the ultrasound issue in General Infant....hmmm is right?

luvbug00 replied:

Give her some time . she does sit two kids along with Bella.


I would just like to add that i couldn't be more confused about the whole thing but i don't know anything about fibriods or twins. All I know is i hope her baby is healthy.

lovemy2 replied:
That I do agree with 100%

Kentuckychick replied:
I saw where she wrote a post last night that she was finished trying to explain and she was leaving.

I agree that we should give her time. I don't know what's up and wasn't ever planning on joining the conversation, still don't really plan to. All I will say is that my best friend is still pretty confused regarding the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy and birth of her son and exactly what happened during them (she was getting conflicting reports from her doctors) -- amazingly when she went to make an appointment with them last week they are no longer in practice, no notice or anything, just gone... and her son was born almost 3 years ago and she's had a daughter and tubal since then from then. So honestly is it not possible that it was just very confusing?

That and... seriously, we are a bunch of adults and not so much this post but the "WOW" post was insulting. How much can you beat a dead horse? Just saying...

moped replied:
What does that mean?

gr33n3y3z replied:
I agree what does that mean

insulting to whom we are only trying to clear things up and she isnt making sence of any of this what is insulting is her testing our intellengance that I dont like

luvmykids replied:
ITA with Lisa, if we're all misunderstanding things, it could be easily cleared up The insult comes when the "clearing up" is more conflicting info.

luvbug00 replied: I wasn't gonna get into this either like i said i know nothing. she deserves a chance to explain but my base thought is

i think if you are going to create the thred and make claims about yourself you should expect questions. and back it up to the best of your ablilitys and if you can't explain everything why not say "it's kind of confusing to me and i'm not clear on the details and this is what i was told"

Kentuckychick replied:
Honestly it is insulting. Imagine if you will that she isn't trying to insult or test your intelligence at all. That she honestly is confused... that she really did have a twin disappear and a fibroid tumor or something that she was just confused about (not saying she did but we aren't her so we don't really know) -- then in turn isn't you who's insulting HER intelligence?

It's not the questioning that's insulting, it's the manner in which the questions are being posed... the constant " "'s and the winking and the mockery that's being made. And the fact that it's all being done by a few people who won't let it go.

I'd like to see her answer the questions too... but with the way people seem to be ganging up on her I could see where that might be hard to do.

The thing to do would be to let it go. To give her a chance to come back and explain herself. That's why it's beating a dead horse... because I've been reading that post since it started and I've known what all of you seem to think of her from the moment she posted it... she never had a chance to explain.

luvbug00 replied:
I think your VERY wrong at that call. there are many strong inquizitive personalities here and that isn't to be confused with judgemental. she even said she has another sono pic. so she has the materials to back herself up. she just needs the time

Kentuckychick replied: Not really talking about the people posing questions when I say that people are ganging up her... I would have no problem if questions were what was actually happening over on that thread...

What I'm seeing however are insults being thrown around about "not knowing where your uterus is, it hasn't "disappeared"...

those aren't questions... those are statements that are insulting.

And that's why I said she hasn't had a chance. Because rather than everyone saying "Oh that would be wonderful, we'd love to see a pic with both twins." Everyone started jumping into the above statements.

Honestly I would have left too.

gr33n3y3z replied:
all of that is caused bc she cant get her story stright why would anyone bash her asking questions for logical questions that she cant answer bc she never told the truth in the first place

Maddie&EthansMom replied: To be fair, I think most everyone was being inquisitive since she had so little information when she returned from her appt. It seemed as though people were pressing her to be more aggressive when it comes to her pre-natal care. Those are questions she needs to be asking the doctor. When she answered the questions with conflicting information in several different posts, that's when some flags went up. As a moderator of this board, it is my duty to ask questions and to seek out inconsistencies in stories. She was also sent a private message by a mod to clarify and clear some things up (privately) that she blatantly ignored.

This post will be locked. I don't feel there is a need to bicker back and forth on who is and isn't acting like an adult.