Triplets and your only 15?!?!
If it is... What are you going to do?

Pretty much nill. Sorry hun but i've never ever heard of anyone under 30 having triplets. Triplets are pretty much always concieved via in-vitro because they fertalize so many eggs. You'd need to be on fertility drugs to concieve that many, especially at your age. I strongly doubt there's even twins. I've only heard of one young mother having a multiple pregnancy.

A girl I grew up with got pregnant at 14, and had her babies at 15. She had twin boys. They were and still are healthy. I've never heard of age being a factor of multiple births though. Goodluck! As long as the babies will be healthy, that is all that matters.~~~sibley

Any girl any age can have multiples.......

It just depends on how many eggs shes ovulating especially if they have twins in the family genetics so it very possible...

Wishing you all the best!!
Jess

"almost" is the key word in that statement..

Biology lesson will come in right here. First of all, not more than one egg can be fertilized at once since only one egg is ever fertilized at a time. Twins, triplets, quadruplets, and other such forms of multiple pregnancy are the result of cell division. Something will happen in the mother's body that causes the fertilized egg to split. If this happens once, sometimes the two eggs are exactly the same, resulting in identical twins. Also, if the division of the cell is incomplete, or stops for some reason (which is very rare), the result is, rather obviously, siamese twins.


Triplets are formed the same way...The ovum divides once, then one of the two divides, making a third. Yes, fertility treatments can cause the ovum to divide, but it can and does happen naturally, but definitely not as often as the embryo just sitting by itself and doing nothing but growing.


Though rare, it is possible for women of any age to conceive twins, triplets, quads, whatever, without fertility drugs. Your best bet is to get a second opinion in your situation, because if you're only 15, three babies is probably going to mean the death of your sanity, especially if the father isn't sticking around to help.

If you've got 3 sprogs in there, you best grow an arm out your butt to be sure you can hold all 3

It's very unlikely, from what i've heard, but it's definitely possible. My neighbour's brother fathered fraternal twin boys when they were fourteen. I'm a bit confused about the triplet thing, though...I knew I was too young for one baby, but three? I've already decided on keeping my twins, but now that I have three...I don't think I would change my mind, but...I still can't see myself having triplets. I think i'm going to get a second opinion, and an ultrasound with a new doctor.

Cambion,
what you are describing is identical triplets. I have one friend who had exactly that. She and her husband were shocked. None the less triplets that are faternal are far more common. She could have very likely ovulated three eggs. Not impossible at all. Thank you for the post but that was only describing identical triplets.


As for the original poster. The doctor can easily refer you for an ultrasound for confirmation. Hcg numbers are all so different and are not definitive one way or another. Good luck with twins or trips...They are a ton of work.

Thats not always true ... Very rare but it happens

every once in a while both ovaries could realease an egg at the same time and then both could be fertilized ... Thats how ppl who dont have invitro have non identical twins ... So the same thing could have happened with trips both ovaries release an egg n they get ferilized then one splits so that 2 will be identical and 1 wont. But either way twins or trips it doenst matter they are babies and they are wonderful none the less and they come first and foremost like school and everything can and does wait. But dealing with multiples can be hard just remember stick to a schedule and a routine. But if u ever need anything im here.

Gl and let us know how it goes
~kit~

Thank you all so much. I'm crossing my fingers that it's only two (i'm fifteen and I only have two arms - it will be very difficult to have a third baby!) but, if I do have triplets...Everything happens for a reason. I
i'll let everyone know as soon as I know.

Wow good luck with that I hope everything goes good and I want to know what happens good luck*

You said you were in the second trimester b4 didnt you??
So you would have had an ultrasound or at least the doctor listening to the heartbeats by now, which would mean u should already know for sure...
Even if that was what the dr suspected why would he call you otta nowhere to tell you it may be.. When he doesnt know for sure?

i'm sorry, i'm jumping in here with my science lessons... Can I ask u... How do u explain fraternal twins then if it's not possible for two seperate eggs to be fertilized at once? The way ur describing it would be identicals... And I don't think I have ever hear of identical quads... But that's just me, normally they are fraternal. And if ur theory is right, then I am confused. My bf's best friend is a twin. And his twin is a girl.... So how is it possible for one egg to start off as one gender then split into a different gender? Maybe they are both guys then, I dunno. Sorry but ur wrong. It's definitely possible to have two or more eggs fertilized at one time.

only identical twins are from cells dividing--you are wrong. Identicals are not genetic, they are totally chance for anyone to have identicals. Now fraternal twins are when a woman expells 2 eggs at once and both get fertilized. This runs in family, and is genetic. Triplets would be the same, unless she had 2 identicals and then a fraternal which would still be 2 eggs, one who split and one who didnt. Or 3 eggs released at once.

that's not true, I go to a school for pregnant and parenting teens and there is a girl there who is 16-17 and she is having twins (bless her!) and she isn't the first girl to come through there with them. Twins in themselves as well as any form of multipul pregnancy is rare, but not unheard of. Even in teen mothers. I have heard/seen a few.

Good luck with the pregnancies! I hope you have endless patients and lots of love! You're going to be a busy girl if it is for real! But if it makes you feel better go see another doctor to see, if you choose not too, then everything will reveal itself later. :d

Exactly what I was saying.

I went to a school for young mothers the other year. Out of curiosity one day I asked my teacher about multiples. This school has been in operation for over 20 years (my 20 year old friend was actually one of the babies in the school's daycare). Each year it takes in 10-20 mothers or pregnant students. That's a few hundred young mothers. She only remembers one girl who had twins.

Nothing is impossible but there are things that are unlikely. And there are things that are ridiculous and i'm sorry but I don't believe that a 14 or 15 year old is having triplets. Especially since she's in her second trimester. They would've picked up the heartbeats or seen them on the ultrasound. Especially if they thought it was twins, she would probably be treated very carefully and monitored and likely have had at least one ultrasound.

It makes me suspiscious, especially when the girl starts backpeddling and talking about how her doctor is an fool and she's going to get a new one once anyone questions her. There seems to be a lack of doctors with even the most basic common sense around.

I didn't just "randomly" choose to get a new doctor. My brother's girlfriend, halley, has been telling me for awhile to get a new obstetrician. My current one was the first one I went to (my prenatal class friend amanda went to him when she was pregnant, and she said he was pretty good), and I was already about nine weeks pregnant and didn't have time to search for a different one - I had to get all the usual tests asap, and he was the only doctor available in a rather cheap practice. I live in a very busy city, and I am a pregnant teen. I couldn't be picky.
However, my doctor hauled me in for an ultrasound every week. It seemed like he was using every little change in my pregnancy ( i.E. The baby's heart rate up) to charge me for tests. I told halley what was happening, and she told me that that was weird. When I called her to tell her that the doctor said I might have triplets, she immediately told me to get a second opinion, which is what I was planning to do in the first place. I couldn't deal with all the drama that the doctor was going through about my multiple birth, and plus, health care doesn't cover everything, and mine is very limited.
I hope this has satisfied you. If I was making all this up to get attention, my life would be a lot simpler.

Hmm, from what I had learned, it's impossible for a woman to release more than one egg at once. Okay, blame my two-watt high school teacher for that lesson. I had no idea that could happen - I never knew fraternal twins dealt with babies -- I thought it was some kind of college term.. :shock:

thanks for the new biology lesson, guys.

But that's good, jewelskye, that you're seeking another opinion. No matter what you age may be, it's best if you find out from another source if you really do have 3 babies incubating.

Appointment tomorrow at eleven. I'll let you all know. :)

More than one egg can be fertilized at a time, however only one sperm can fertilize each egg. Identical twins are formed when one egg that is fertilized by one sperm splits into two individual cell clusters early on in development. Fraternal twins are the result of two different eggs being fertilized by two different sperm, one sperm per egg. The chances of having identical triplets are extremely rare, however it can happen. I do however agree that it is extremely rare for a 15 year old to conceive any type of triplets, identical or fraternal. As for the fertility factor, just because you are young doesnt mean you are more likely to release more than one egg. Actually it is more common for older women or women undergoing fertility treatments to get pregnant with multiples than a younger mother. Do your research before you post. As for you jewelskye, it seems to me that you are pulling the yarn over everyone's head. By 10 weeks, a heartbeat can be picked up using the dopplar. If you were having triplets, you doctor would have known at your first checkup. At the ultrasound, there would be no if ands or buts about you having triplets...They would all show up unless one was ectopic. And if you are lying, I would like to let you in on the reality of multiples...Most are born early, have to spend time in the hospital, and many die. I was pregnant with twins, naturally, no fertility treatments. The doctors knew at my ultrasound that I was having twins. They were born early and one died due to complications. Lying about being pregnant is not funny.