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[quote=afield][quote=Anonymous]

Highly unlikely they are identical.  Highly.  [/quote]

Yup.  1/9 is pretty unlikely.  Its my guess.  Maybe because my great-grandmother was an identical twin?  Intriguingly, I was told they both have really good umbilical cord insertions in the centers of their respective placentas.  So if we assume they get equal nutrition, they should grow about the same size.  If they track different sizes...different enough...maybe that will be a leading indicator.  I'm just happy that, with gender revealed already, I get to have something else to remain unknowable for now.

Again, if someone told me my child had a 1/9 chance of some disease, I would think that staggeringly high!  And yet that same 1/9 of being monozygotic twins...seems very low!

[quote=jindc]...if you are before 18-20 weeks, how did you find out your baby's sex?  I couldn't schedule an anatomy scan until 18-20 weeks (so, 19 weeks it is).

Is anyone concerned about it being too early so the scan possibly being wrong?

Is anyone holding our for a surprise?  We aren't, but I'm one of the later due dates here, so I'm behind :)[/quote]

They are doing regular size scans, since she has twins and is 38 she gets watched by the MFM folks like a hawk.  Hence this scan at 16w2d, and the sonar tech was able to give us a determination.  And yes, you're right, I suppose I'm just taking her word for it, but from what she was showing us, it would have looked very differently had one of them been male.  "Real" anatomy scan is at 20w.  Plus a fetal cardio since DD has a congenital heart defect (repaired via surgery).

Does anyone know if there is a twins section of this board?
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