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Nine weeks pregnant
By ella | August 20, 2007
So I got around to working it out and I’m nine weeks pregnant. With my first pregnancy I knew how many weeks, days, probably even minutes I was pregnant but this time I’m lucky if I can remember to take all the children with me when we go out somewhere.
At nine weeks, I’m visibly pregnant. The maternity clothes are out and waiting to be laundered because one more cake and I’m going to be needing them. But I’m starting to feel really run down by the lack of nutrition and lack of sleep (Harry has developed an obsession with flies in his bedroom at night and no amount of cajoling will get him back to sleep. Once in our bed there is a great deal of tossing and turning and often nervous giggling which doesn’t improve my mood towards him. Then there’s the teething baby. And the same one that screams for fun in the middle of the night. And finally there’s the getting up to pee. Which is why you will hear me muttering at three o’clock in the morning my mantra: sleep is for the weak, sleep is for the weak.)
But in the morning Harry asks, ‘how are you feeling today, Mummy?’ with such sweetness and concern that there is a millisecond where I actually think the sickness is worth it.
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I recently found out that my cousin is expecting twins. Oh how lovely! I thought.
A few days later it finally occurred to me that my cousin - ON MY MATERNAL SIDE - is expecting twins. Conceived naturally.
So now I wait to hear whether they are identical or not. Because if they’re not, that means that twins might run on my mother’s side of the family. Which means I am at higher risk of having twins myself. Which would be? Well, lovely is NOT the word that springs to mind.
Fraternal twins, which occur when two separate eggs are fertilized, are the more common type of twins. Your chances of having fraternal twins appear to increase with your age and the number of children you have and if you are tall. In addition, your chance of having a multiple birth also increases if fraternal twins run in your family.
So let’s see: I’m old, I’m tall, I already have three children and now twins may run in my family. (And yes, I know theoretically they may also run on her partner’s side of the family, but where’s the story in that?)
Anyway, after the little scare we had with the last pregnancy and already having three boys under six, it’s just a risk I could do without.
Nuchal scan in a couple of weeks. I’m counting the days. Or at least I would be if I weren’t already counting the days - and hours and minutes - until I stop throwing up (I’m pregnant; I can’t be expected to count both).
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I 2nd that…^
I’ve never heard of height being one of the factors…very strange! I’m “at risk” for twins as well. My mother has a brother and sister who were twins and then the brother went on to have a daughter who has a set of fraternal boy/girl twins, so it definitely runs in the family. I have two older sisters and not one of us had twins, but it’s always there, looming around us and we can’t help but wonder where they might show up. I find the thought of having twins both horrifying and delightful all at once. Oddly enough, just this past weekend we met a man and his family while hiking and he and his wife have TWO sets of fraternal twins, and one more on top of that!
I tell my teens that the naps I take now are making up for the sleep lost when they were young. I didn’t even mention the sleep lost when I was pregnant.