I had 3 kids under 2 – everyone's baffled when I tell them… it was a shock to me too, but was down to a simple mistake

The Sun

2 days ago

A MUM who had three kids under the age of two has revealed people are always baffled when she tells them.
Nicole took to her TikTok page to explain her unusual situation, which occurred when she fell pregnant with twins when her daughter was 11 months old.
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And in the video, she admitted the pregnancy was a "huge shock", and happened when she made a very easy error.
"I actually didn't pick up my pill prescription from the doctors for like five days, and then just started taking it and thought I'd be all right," she said.
"We'd actually decided that we only wanted to have one child together, because he already had a five-year-old."
Nicole continued to say her "life was blissful" when her daughter was born, and she and her other half were "really in that bubble" thanks to their little girl being a "happy, easy baby".
So when she started to get pregnancy symptoms when her daughter was 11 months old, she took a test, and discovered she was expecting again.
For the first scan, Nicole's husband couldn't make it, so she took her mum.
Laying down ready for the scan, she was chatting to the sonographer and said that she could already feel the baby moving - to which the pro insisted it was "wind", unless she had "more than one baby" in there.
The scan then began, with the sonographer telling Nicole she was "right".
"I thought she was joking!"
When she realised that she wasn't joking, and she was actually pregnant with twins, Nicole went into "full panic mode" and burst into tears.
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The situation was made even more emotional by the fact that her husband was an identical twin, but he tragically lost his brother aged 20.
And the drama continued thanks to the fact that her twins shared one placenta - meaning the pregnancy was high risk, and she had to have scans at hospital every two weeks.
"Then they decided to come at 10 and a half weeks early. So they were born at 29 weeks!" she concluded.
The comments section on the video was somewhat surprisingly filled with other mums saying they'd found themselves in very similar situations.
"I'm so similar, I fell pregnant when my son was 11 months and had identical twin girls at 29 weeks too," one wrote.
"For 10 days I had 3 under 18 months."
What are the different types of twins?
TWINS are when two children are produced in the same pregnancy.
They can be identical or different, and two boys, two girls, or a girl and a boy.
Twins are quite rare, but are usually born completely healthy
What are the different types of twins?
Monozygotic – identical twins ('one cell' twins)
Dizygotic – also known as 'fraternal', non identical twins. Babies are no more alike than siblings born at separate times, and they can be the same or different sexes
Conjoined twins – identical twins that are joined together. They are extremely rare, and it's estimated they range from one in 49,000 to 189,000 births, although around half are stillborn, and one third die within 24 hours.
Can identical twins be two different sexes?
Identical twins are always of the same sex because they form from the same fertilised egg that contains either female or male chromosomes.
The single egg is divided into two separate embryos, and they occur in about three in every 1000 deliveries worldwide.
Therefore, boy/girl twins are always fraternal (or dizygotic), as their chromosomes are either XY (male) or XX (female).
What are Di Di twins?
Di Di stands for Dichronic Diamniotic, and they are the common type of twins.
They have their own amniotic sacs and placenta, so are just sharing the womb of the mother, and are therefore not identical.
There are few complications with Di Di twins, so have a good chance of being born completely healthy without intervention from your doctor.
Di di twins are more likely to be non-identical than identical.
"This happened to me!" another said.
"But all 3 of mine were in the same school year my daughter was the oldest in the year and my boys were the youngest in the year!!!"
"Same story for us, when my first boy was 8 months old I became pregnant with identical twin boys," a third admitted.
"My eldest was exactly 1/5 years when they were born! Wild ride ever since haha!"
"This happened to me," someone else said.
"My daughter was 8 months - the twins were born when she was 16 months."
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