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Last Night’s TV – Cutting Edge: Emergency in the Womb

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This amazing and intensely moving documentary followed two women who were both pregnant with identical twin boys. Sarah’s babies, Conner and Cody, and Natalie’s babies, George and Casper, all had the potentially fatal illness TTTS, Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome, which basically meant that one of the twins of both pregnancies was haemorrhaging into the other.

This resulted in one twin being very tiny and ‘stuck’ to the wall of the womb while the other twin produced such excessive amounts of fluid – due to the increased workload on his heart – that in Sarah’s case meant that at 21 weeks, she looked more like she was full-term and she was in a great deal of pain. Read more & comment »

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