ID or not
12 Apr 2010 - 1:33pm 2 CommentsIt has only taken me 13 years to realise that I have always known the answer.
Since the girls were born, family, friends and strangers have always asked if we knew if the girls were ID or not. Having been told little if not nothing by the medical staff we always answered that we did not know but we thought they were not ID.
To most people the girls....
Pre-eclampsia
18 Jun 2009 - 3:59pm 0 CommentsWhat is Pre-eclampsia ?
Pre-eclampsia is the most common of the serious complications of pregnancy. It is caused by a defect in the placenta, which joins mother and baby and supplies the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother's blood. Pre-eclampsia is symptom-less in the early stages and is detectable only by regular antenatal checks on the mother's blood pressure and urine.
In its widest forms, pre-eclampsia affects about one in 10 pregnancies overall and one in 50 preg....
Twin terminology - what does it all mean ?
15 May 2009 - 1:58pm 0 CommentsTwin 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 ....
