Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Learn about TTTS.
5/9/2008
Jesselle Davis
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
April 28, 2008
Jesselle Davis
When most people think of someone being pregnant with twins they think “Oh how cute, what a blessing!” or something among those lines and you have your few that give you this shocking look of pity and think “Oh my God, GOODLUCK!”, but no one has a clue exactly how delicate and stressful carrying identical twin babies can be. When I found out I was pregnant it was a total shock, being that I was on birth control, but when I found out I was carrying twin babies I dropped to the floor. Of course, the shock wore off and the tears of joy started streaming down then the tears of joy became tears of sadness and heartbreaking ones. The doctors told me I had what they claim to be a rare disease that only identical twin babies go through called, Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome.
Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome, otherwise known as TTTS, is a rare disease that happens in identical twin fetuses or the other name for this pregnancy is Monochorionic twins. The reason is because identical twin fetuses share only one placenta unlike fraternal twins which have their own placenta. As we all know, and if you don’t know, now you will, the placenta is where the unborn baby receives all its nutrients, blood, etc from the mother, the amniotic sac is where the baby lives for nine months in the mother’s womb, the amniotic sac is made up of partial water received from the placenta and the babies urine which at this stage does not harm the fetus because it simply consist of all the nutrients received from the mother. Now this is where most people are grossed out because they just learned that the amniotic sac has urine, I know I was, but it’s important to know that this is how the baby survives and grows. A lot of people also don’t know and when they hear this they argue that then the babies are fraternal because most think
Learn about TTTS.
5/9/2008
Jesselle Davis
Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
April 28, 2008
Jesselle Davis
When most people think of someone being pregnant with twins they think “Oh how cute, what a blessing!” or something among those lines and you have your few that give you this shocking look of pity and think “Oh my God, GOODLUCK!”, but no one has a clue exactly how delicate and stressful carrying identical twin babies can be. When I found out I was pregnant it was a total shock, being that I was on birth control, but when I found out I was carrying twin babies I dropped to the floor. Of course, the shock wore off and the tears of joy started streaming down then the tears of joy became tears of sadness and heartbreaking ones. The doctors told me I had what they claim to be a rare disease that only identical twin babies go through called, Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome.
Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome, otherwise known as TTTS, is a rare disease that happens in identical twin fetuses or the other name for this pregnancy is Monochorionic twins. The reason is because identical twin fetuses share only one placenta unlike fraternal twins which have their own placenta. As we all know, and if you don’t know, now you will, the placenta is where the unborn baby receives all its nutrients, blood, etc from the mother, the amniotic sac is where the baby lives for nine months in the mother’s womb, the amniotic sac is made up of partial water received from the placenta and the babies urine which at this stage does not harm the fetus because it simply consist of all the nutrients received from the mother. Now this is where most people are grossed out because they just learned that the amniotic sac has urine, I know I was, but it’s important to know that this is how the baby survives and grows. A lot of people also don’t know and when they hear this they argue that then the babies are fraternal because most think
References: Heather May. The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah: Jan 7, 2008.