Twins go through surgery in the womb

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Twins were saved after a surgery was performed in the womb. At a scan in her 12^th week of pregnancy, doctors told this mom than one of her babies was feeding from a single blood vessel.

The syndrome they suffered from is a rare one and consists of an abnormal flow of blood between the babies. That means that just one of them was getting nutrients, while the other was starving.

Jake and Oli Whettingsteel are the ones that managed to live by miracle, even if doctors thought they wouldn’t make it.

While she was pregnant in 17 weeks, mom Jane undertook the surgery. At the St. George Hospital in London, the doctors managed to save the boys with a laser surgery.

After the surgery, chances of them to live were still pretty small: 50%.

At 29 weeks, Jane gave birth to two really small, but healthy baby boys.

The mother recalls the moment when the sonographer caught something wrong. For the next five weeks, she had to go through more scans. The, the babies were finally big enough for the surgery. “I tried so hard to be really calm throughout my pregnancy as I didn’t want any additional stress to harm the babies,” said Jane.

She and her babies were lucky, the doctors said that if the blood vessel was smaller, none of them would have stood a chance.

After the surgery, she had to take magnesium sulfate and steroids so that the babies will grow in case she went into a sudden labor.
The boys were born eleven weeks early, but were doing fine. Now, they are 1-year-old.

At a four week scan, they discovered Jake had a blood clot in his brain.

Jane works now with a charity for premature babies so she can help other families that go through the same thing. She also created a group, Premmie Tots, where parents can talk about situations like this.