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Hello, I’m 20 years old and 8 1/5 weeks pregnant. I went to the clinic to schedule my abortion and found out I had two babies in the same sac.
I got super overwhelmed and thanks to my hormones being out of whack, started crying. I am super attached to these fetus’ even though I know I cannot give them the life they deserve.
I looked it up and the probability of Identical twins is 3 or 4 in every 1000. Which is super insane.
I told my parents and the other part about this is this would make my pregnancy very high risk, due to the possibility of their umbilical cords wrapping around each other or getting tangled together.
So July 14th I found out I was pregnant, and August 21st I got an abortion.
Responses:
I had the exact same situation. I was not ready at all. There was no way I could afford a baby let alone two at this time in my life. The decision has to be yours. No one can make it for you just get all of the information you need be as informed as you can possibly be. That’s what I did.
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I had a termination last year at 7.5 weeks, and at the ultrasound I found out it was twins. Your emotional reaction is totally normal, I also burst into tears even though I knew I was terminating.
My ultrasound tech said ‘I can see you’re upset, but if you weren’t ready for one baby you’re probably not ready for two’ and that really helped.
It’ll hurt and you are likely to grieve, but you need to think about what is right for you and your children, are you able to give twins the best life right now?