Is being pregnant with twins considered a high-risk pregnancy?
Being knocked up with twins can seem like a whole mess of test and more tests, appointment after appointment and lots of worries making you feel more fragile than a Ming vase. Hey, all the more excuse to put your feet up and eat pints of ice cream for nine months. The doctor says: “If the mother is healthy and does not have a history of pregnancy problems, it may not be considered high risk. If they are identical twins, and share a placenta, the pregnancy is always considered high risk due to increased risk of twin-twin transfusion…the blood of one twin is transfused into the other twin. Signs include rapidly enlarging uterus in the mother, and sonogram shows one twin much bigger than the other.” -Dr. Hilda Hutcherson is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University in New York. Mom•Logic Moms say: Stefanie, Mom of twin girls says that twin pregnancy may not be high risk but it sure is high maintenance. “I had so many blood tests, I may have well just walked around
