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Sssssssmokin · 01-01-2001, 11:46 AM

There are alot of health issues concerning mothers pregnant with multiples or just multiple births in general. I have twins myself and love hearing stories and experiences of multiples. My twins were very very small and I almost lost them to TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrome)and it was a very big battle but we are all okay and they are healthy and happy now. They are my little miracle babies I think. ~Let me hear from you~

Karla · 01-02-2001, 02:16 PM

Aren't twins great?! I have identical twin boys that are now 15. Seems like yesterday that they were born. I carried them full term but it was a struggle. I was on bed rest from my fourth month on. I would go into labor every time I got out of bed. They weitghed 5lbs 1oz. and 5lbs 7 oz. They were born 1 1/2 hours apart naturally. After the first one was born they cleansed me with iodine and i had an allergic reaction to it and swealled shut. That was after he had dropped down into position and I was in hard labor. They drugged me up big time.

The second baby spent about the first year in a half in the hospital for various resons. One being due to aborted crib death. I believe in twin bondange. They slept through the night at one month. The first born woke up crying like he was dying with he head caught between the crib bars or something. I went in to look on him and he laughed and was fine. I looked at his twin to see if he was awake with all the noise and he was blue and not breathing. I started cpr on him. They did spleep studies and said it was an aborted crib death or sids. They sent him home on a heart monitor. Then he got menigitis and salmonella at 6months of age and spent 6 months in hospital and almost died. They guarenteed he would be 100% blind and deaf because he had a fever of a 105 for 3 weeks. He is not blind or deaf. They said he could be brain dead, mentally retarded, cerable palsy, epilepsy, etc. if he lived and gave him a 5% chance to live. So we have a miricle child. It is nice that all that is behind us. We are very thankfull to God. It is definatly nice as the twins get older and they can dress themselves, feed themselves, bath themselves, etc. Now they help with household duties(cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc) I am not looking forward to double the car insurance and double the collage tution but am sure we will live through it. LOL

Jester · 01-03-2001, 09:02 AM

My best friend is pregnant with twins. They are fraternal, she is 7 months. She has been in the hospital for 2 weeks, and she has been having constant contractions. For some reason the doctors are giving her morphine for the pains. I don't think that they think she is having contractions, instead they think the pains are coming from something else. It can't be good to be on "push botton" morphine can it? I am actually worried that my frond will stay in the hospital just because she only has to push a button to get morphine, I wonder how addictive morphine is. I went to visit her last night, and I asked her what it felt like to take morphine. Her explaination was that it felt like you were under water until the moment you absolutely had to come up. But after that it feels like warm and fuzzy all over. She said it kinda feels like she is drunk and stoned (pot) at the same time. This can't be good for the babies.

She has this rare blood disorder called porphyria. Her oxygen levels are low, and this is the main thing that is concerning the doctors, I guess that is why they believe that her pain is so great. My girlfriend is a great actress. I can never tell if her pains are real or not. Last night during my visit, we were sitting there chatting, and she says "Oh"(like she forgot something), and reaches over to her morphine button, pushes it, and continues talking. I asked her why she took the morphine, and she said, because of the pain. But she said it so casually, as if she just took it because it was time for her fix. I am worried for both her and the babies.

The doctors have said that if the pain continues she will stay as she is until she has the babies, if the pain gets worse they will c-section her to get the babies out, and if she gets better they will send her home. I honestly don't know if any of those situations are desireable. Right now the babies are just over 2lbs each, way too little... So obviously it isn't in the best interest to take the babies out. But to keep them in, the babies may be addicted to morphine before they even come into this world. Or they may have to go through withdrawl in the womb. If they send her home, she is going to be in rough shape, because she is alone, and she has a 3 year old daughter to take care of. She is weak and in pain. I wish it was March already, then she would be 9 months pregnant and we would have nothing to be worrying about.

Thanks for listening. I am sorry about the melancholic reading, I just wanted to get it off my chest.

Sssssssmokin · 01-11-2001, 07:23 AM

My girls were born at 29 weeks (way too early) and they only weighed 2 lbs. and 11 oz. and 1 lb. and 11 oz. They gave them a 30% chance of living in the first place because they had TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrom) they were sharing the feeding cord and the larger one was getting everything and having too much fluid on her causing a fear of her going into cardiac arrest and the smaller one wasn't getting enough and they didn't think she would make it because of that. It was a long struggle and I ended up having 9 or 10 amnioscentesis done me to reduce the built up fluid. The first time they took off fluid they drew out 2 liters. Then had to get the rest out the next two days because they couldn't take it out all at once. They gave me alot of fight and I as well call mine "my little miracle babies" they are now 4 yrs. old and my little angels but they are also spoiled some

Keep us updated Jester please.