A Dad's birth story

25 Feb 2010 - 3:04pm 0 Comments
c-section, compromised pregnancy, ivf, placental insufficiency, pre-eclampsia, premature, SCBU

My birth story... by Craig

Hope you don't mind a birth story from a Dad.

After several years of struggling to conceive, my wife, Lisa, and I succeeded first time with IVF and were enjoying a wonderful problem-free twin pregnancy. In week 28, a scan showed that one of our twins ('Twin 2') was not growing as fast as he should. Our Consultant started using scary terms like 'Intrauterine Growth Retardation', 'placental insufficiency' and 'compromised pregnancy'. The next three....

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New Mother Travels 250 Miles and Four Hospitals

9 Nov 2009 - 2:31pm 0 Comments
premature

The Daily Mail 16th December 2008
 By Andrew Levy

An expectant mother of twins was ferried 250 miles between four hospitals only to have her babies separated as soon as they were delivered.

Angela Breeds, 30, was told she needed a Caesarean section when doctors found one of her unborn babies was too small and not getting enough nutrition.

But what should have been the most thrilling moment of her life turned into a five-day ordeal because the hospitals e....

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Shelley

8 Nov 2009 - 9:00pm 0 Comments
Christmas, premature

ImageHi. I am a 21 year old proud Mummy to gorgeous identical 11 month old twin boys. I first found out I was pregnant Christmas eve 2006 and it was the christmas present EVER. Then the following February I found out that I would be having twins, what a shock! My fella and I went as white as ghosts, it was....

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Charlotte

7 Nov 2009 - 10:11pm 0 Comments
premature, SCBU

It had been a very hot few days, end of April 1999. I had been signed off work sick and was 26 + weeks pregnant. My pregnancy so far had been up and down. First of all the nausea was like nothing I had expected or known in my life and had continued well on to the 20th week. The surprise of finding out I was expecting twins at 12 weeks and then at 25 weeks, I had a small bleed which stopped after a short admission to hospital but a few days later I began to leak fluid.

I was 26 weeks p....

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