Tag: TTTS
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Twin Update: Welcome, Aria & Kiana
On July 3rd at night we were able to welcome our twin girls. I was told they entered this world screaming – a positive sign for preemies. They weighed a smashing 1300 & 1600g and from the very first day were showing the nurses and us quite some attitude given their size 😉. The names:…
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Twin Update: acute twin-twin-transfusion system…
Something seemed wrong on tuesday. I called the hospital, they instructed me to come straight into the delivery room. When I arrived there were 6-8 of people waiting for me, assuming that they had to deliver the twins. Up until that point I had not been too worried, but after my female doctor had told…
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Twin-Update: sIUGR – the new vocabulary to learn
It is early Tuesday morning and as I am writing this I am eagerly awaiting the doctors’ rounds in the hospital to convince them to release me today. It is not a normal Tuesday, today my step sister is getting married which is the only reason I am in my home town Kassel. The babies…
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A test of enduring uncertainty: my twin pregnancy
TTTS, IUGR and a whole lot of waiting It was after two hours of sonography that the prenatal specialist closed his eyes as if he was going through his knowledge, repeating the observations. He summarized his findings in a rather sobering way: “That is the shit with identical twin pregnancies, they are never just easy.”…
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