I’ve looked up Vanishing Twin Syndrome, and almost every article I have seen said that VTS typically only happens during the first trimester of the pregnancy.
But here’s the catch: My mom didn’t realize or know she was pregnant with me until 7 months into the pregnancy. And when she found out, the ultrasounds did show two babies. Me and my twin.
If Vanishing Twin Syndrome usually only occurs during the 1st trimester, is there a reason why it can happen so late during the pregnancy, as in the case with my mom and my twin? Or is there technically another name for this specific situation?
“Fetus papyraceous occurs in 1 out of 12,000 pregnancies and 1 out of 200 twin pregnancies.”
Instead of absorption, it could have been papyrification, but apparently that leaves a kind of unmistakable trace for a doctor, which you mentioned so I assume was involved during birth. If pregnancy was non-standard in more ways then just finding out late, maybe those remains were so small that they were harder to notice?
I couldn’t find a written record of a similar situation where a second twin that was seen at 7 months and just vanished afterward, so this could be a unique mix of circumstances. That also makes it statistically a lot more likely that somewhere along the lines, information was missing, or got garbled in chaos, or was misheard, not unlikely during extreme situations like birth. I’m not even thinking about bad intentions, just all the places where one human error could be the missing puzzle piece.
Can you think of any extra information regarding your time during pregnancy and your birth you are willing to share?
It sucks that you couldn’t live with your twin, although I can imagine you have made you peace with it since. Having siblings can be a lot of fun, I know I love it :)
Oh actually, I have other siblings
In fact, I’m the youngest of 7
Well, for those wondering how my mom didn’t realize she was pregnant until seven months in, I apparently wasn’t growing in her stomach. So she didn’t see any significant or concerning weight gain.
I was somehow lying completely flat in her back for most of the pregnancy.
As for my twin, I’m not sure. My mom said two babies were seen in the ultrasound results but what happened to my twin now im not so sure. Because my mom told me my twin was absorbed by the womb
You and your vanishing twin were invisible at 7 months.
Your mom was not a little lady, so my best explanation would be that they never saw “both” of these babies at the same time in the ultrasound. They were both you.
No, it doesn’t make sense for the babies to have both been me.
Besides, my mom actually didn’t gain any weight when she was pregnant with me. I wasn’t growing in her stomach
Oh, you are just full of shit. No worries, carry on.
I’m really not full of shit but whatevs 🙄😒
You are either being duplicitous or are astonishingly certain about things you have no idea about.
Either way, this is a waste of time.