TTTS - OUR STORY
By Sue Roper-Moore
Hi. My name is Sue Roper-Moore and my husband is Malcolm. We live in Birmingham and have a five year old son, Henry, and identical twin girls - Mary and Lydia - who will be 3 in October. This is our recollection of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion.
I had a trouble free ' text book ' pregnancy with Henry and when I discovered that I was pregnant again me, my husband, my doctor, my midwife and family had no reason to suspect anything untoward. However, a....
Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes
by Nikki Carpenter
1st October 2003 my body was at a three year olds birthday party, my mind was still recovering from the 5 pregnancy tests I had taken yesterday. The new digital pregnancy test had just been released and I was convinced they didn’t work properly, but somehow the following 4 tests I took didn’t make it real either. It was a planned pregnancy, but I didn’t expect to fall pregnant within the first week of trying, I....
What is Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)?
Also sometimes known as 'FFTS' (Feto-Fetal Transfusion Syndrome), and as 'TOPS' (Twin Oligohydramnios-Polyhydramnios Sequence), TTTS is a disease of identical twin fetuses caused by abnormal connecting blood vessels in the twins' placenta, resulting in an imbalanced flow of blood from one twin to another.
The implications of this can be very serious for the survival and health of both twins. Once thought to be extremely rare, TT....
Twin Terminology
There are 3 main reference points which you may hear a lot of from now on in. They include the chorion (placenta), the amnion (the sac containing fluid in which the baby grows) and the zygosity (referring to the egg). These terms refer to whether the babies have their own amniotic sac, their own chorion (placenta) and whether they came from one egg or two.
A prefix of mono means one, so monochorionic means one placenta, diamniotic means 2 amniotic ....
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