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Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:06pm |
There's a story on a baby affected by group B strep here, where the mother wants testing for group B in pg... I thought that was already the case? It certainly is/was with my two mw's.
And folic acid brings on twins!
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Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:13pm |
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And folic acid brings on twins |
I wonder if rather than CAUSING twins, folic acid prevents birth defects therefore causing more babies to survive. It's pretty commonly believed that a far higher number of pregnancies start off as twins but one dies very early on in the piece (disappearing or vanishing twin syndrome)
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Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:23pm |
busymum wrote:
There's a story on a baby affected by group B strep here, where the mother wants testing for group B in pg... I |
I never got tested I would think it should be standard. I kept for getting to ask my M/W I will next time tho I think it is prob far more important that the scan.
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Posted: 06 March 2007 at 8:56pm |
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oo Emma good theory! I'm with ya!
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Posted: 06 March 2007 at 9:27pm |
Emma has watched the NatGeo doco that was on Sunday Twins, Triplets and Quads. That was a very interesting doco. I watched it again on Monday as I missed bits of it.
I was tested both times for StrepB and both times positive, strange how some people are tested and others aren't. I thought the 36 week swabs were normal.
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Posted: 07 March 2007 at 7:28am |
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with the strep B I was never tested with HAleigh so was very suprised when I got pregnant this time reading about it form everyone seen as I ahd never heard of it and Haleigh is only 17months.
Im having one this time though jsut for peace of mind really.
I agree with what Emma said inregards to the folic acid, I actually know of a few people who ahve miscarryed before thinking they lsot their baby only to find they were still actually pregnant and it was jsut one of the babies.
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Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:15pm |
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Strangely enough Mummy_becks I haven't seen it yet - we don't have Sky. But Peace taped it for me so will be keen to see it when it arrives!
I just know a *bit* about twins having read anything I could get my hands on about them when I was pregnant!
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Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:31pm |
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It was a really good doco, it shows the woman who had twins giving birth naturally.
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Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:36pm |
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I seconed that I watched it with my Mum I stayed at her place all day Monday jsut to see it it was awsome.
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Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:35pm |
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some test for strep B and others don't - due to the limited merits it can have as it can come and go - you may not necessarily have it when tested but whos to say you wont at birth and vice versa.. the test is not absolute so in some areas it is not standard.
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Posted: 10 March 2007 at 8:52pm |
mummy_becks wrote:
It was a really good doco, it shows the woman who had twins giving birth naturally. |
Eeek - I don't need to see that! It's not so long ago that I've forgotten what it was like... 
But Mum saw it and she said it was really interesting. Apparently tho they said the triplets were conceived on different days - I'm still trying to figure out how they know that?
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Posted: 10 March 2007 at 9:08pm |
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When they do a dating scan, sometimes twins/triplets come up 1 week apart, consistently through the whole pg. "1 week" is an example.
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Posted: 10 March 2007 at 9:46pm |
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My girls were consistently 4-7 days apart in size (Mercedes was always bigger and was bigger at birth) but obviously must have been conceived the same day as they came from one egg.
The triplets in the doco were a set of identical twins + one baby so one split egg + a second fertilised egg. They reckon the identical twins were conceived first, then 24 hours later the third baby. I just don't get how they know the second egg was released 24 hours later rather than 6 or 12 or however many else hours?
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Posted: 11 March 2007 at 10:32am |
[/QUOTE=Maya]The triplets in the doco were a set of identical twins + one baby so one split egg + a second fertilised egg. They reckon the identical twins were conceived first, then 24 hours later the third baby. I just don't get how they know the second egg was released 24 hours later rather than 6 or 12 or however many else hours?[/QUOTE]
That is what happened, she had 3 boys 2 identical and 1 a fraternal, they show how it happened - so amazing. It was on again last night so we watched again (nothing else was on).
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Posted: 11 March 2007 at 1:38pm |
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Posted: 11 March 2007 at 1:50pm |
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maybe depending on which ovarie they were relased from they can tell as once the egg is released, the site it come from on the ovary goes through different stages until it heals, or if supporting a pregnancy it goes through different stages and i think releases hormones to keep it viable until implantation when the pregnancy hormones are then sorted out by the placenta instead.
Although don't ask me how they would have known unless they tested very early on.
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