I’d like to give Oliver the sibling he deserves I’ll believe it when I see it,’ I told my partner
‘But the test’s positive,’
Mark, then 32, insisted.
‘You’re pregnant!’ Still, after trying for two years, even when we were staring at the screen at my scan at Birmingham Women’s Hospital in November 2015, it didn’t seem real.
‘There’s the first heartbeat,’ the sonographer smiled. ‘And there’s the second…’
Twins!
It turned out there were twins on both sides of our family.
Ours were monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) twins – identical, in separate sacs, but with one placenta.
Only seven weeks gone, I’d be scanned every two weeks, which is common with twins.
Excited, I started buying two of everything – cots, clothes, Moses baskets.
As my bump grew, it became…
