Well, one of the major things that I think we were wanting to get out of the scan was to discover that there was only one baby, because my husband is a twin and as far as I was aware, there was no history of twins in my family. But it actually turns out that my father's parents on both sides there had been a history of identical twins, but they had died so we didn't know about it, because they'd died as babies.
I actually was kind of thinking, “Oh, well, if it was twins then what you don't know won't hurt you”. And, you know, I've never had a baby before so if I had two then I wouldn't know any different to just having one. My husband, on the other hand, was quite relieved to see there was only one, because he was of the opinion that one would have to be sold because we wouldn't be able to afford two! So he was quite pleased.
Did you know about your family history then, before you went for the scan or did it only come up afterwards when somebody said, “Oh, yeah, we've got twins too”?
It came up when I found out I was pregnant. Because my husband's a non-identical twin, so we didn't think there was much risk of any sort of genetic thing, but the fact that there was identical twins was kind of a bit of a, “Oh, right, okay, you might have told me that beforehand.”
And actually watching the scan, what were your feelings when you were sitting there together?
I suppose it was very emotional, actually. It was a lot more emotional than I thought it would be. I mean, I'd heard people saying, “Oh, you know, you're so moved” and I thought, you know, because I've seen it, when people show me scans I've thought, “I can't make that out”, and they say, “There's the baby” and I think, “Oh right, okay.”
I mean I could work out the scan of a gall-bladder or something, but I can never, ever work them out. And then, you know, we saw this little thing, which the ultrasound technician couldn't, it was asleep at the time, so she was poking it and trying to get it to move, which it eventually did, poor little thing. So, but yes it was really quite a moving experience.
And did the ultra-sonographer talk you through what he or she was doing?
Yeah, yeah, she was very good actually….
Was there any point where you felt you weren't being given enough information about what they were looking at or for?
No, she was actually very, very good. I mean, I did ask when she was having a look to try and, and she was trying to measure the fetus, and I asked how many there were, because she hadn't actually said, you know, “There's only one”. I think that's the only time I had to actually ask her anything. She was very, very good. Talked us through it. |
