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Q: Side by side sacs ?

asked by: micalleft on October 25th, 2009

New User

Im 5 weeks pregnant and have two sacs side by side can this mean identical twins no heart beat on either?

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tameika

replied on October 26th, 2009

Experienced User

hi, i had that with this pregnancy. at 6 weeks there were 2 sacs 1 with a baby and a heart beat and the other was empty but very close in size.
2 sacs usually means fraternal twins.
sometimes 1 just goes away, or the other sac can form a baby upto 14 days different in age. like with me i went for another u/s at 8 weeks and there was only 1 baby.

the heart beat usually is visable at about 6 weeks.

good luck

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