Daily Signal:
Earlier this year, parents in North Carolina faced heartbreaking news in the second trimester of pregnancy—their twin girls had developed a disease called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a life-threatening condition for both babies, caused by connections in the blood flow between identical twins who share one placenta.
That leads the smaller (donor) twin to pump blood to the other, larger (recipient) twin. If left untreated, advanced forms of the disease are fatal between 80% and 100% of the time.
The news was devastating, and the potential outcome for both babies was grim. But the medical team at the Charlotte Fetal Care Center offered a glimmer of hope. read more
I’m going to bet that the March of Dimes doesn’t promote this surgical care since they had been on a search and destroy mission for decades.
This is a beautiful story. Thank you for posting it MJA.
Geez, I wonder if that is what killed my mother’s twin sister. They were born in 1933, but the twin sister was smaller, and only lived a few hours.
Shouldn’t they just have sent them home with pain killers?
Barry Obama
I can relate to this. I am 1/2 twin myself.