Raising Awareness of TTTS + Fundraising

Today is your due date. You’ve been here for so long already. 3 months premature almost to the day (April 26). I was so naive back then. I knew the...

They’re here! OMG. I can’t believe I’m typing this. Axel and Jaxon, our TTTS survivors, arrived by total surprise on April 26th, 2018. Their due date was July 24! I...

The past 6 months have been tough. Most women have concerns at some point during their pregnancy, and normal worries about the baby/babies’ health, what to eat/not eat, activities to...

Another whirlwind week! I’m well into my 25th week in this complicated pregnancy and of course, the further along I get, the better I feel about things (survivability should anything...

What a rollercoaster week! Less than 72 hours after being admitted for my TTTS laser surgery that didn’t end up happening, I was back in the hospital for an amnioreduction...

Whew. TTTS laser surgery was something I knew we might need since the topic first came up around 16-18 weeks, but I didn’t think it would be so soon. I...

I haven’t posted this month so far as it’s been quite the unexpected whirlwind. At 18 weeks, I began to show signs of TTTS (which I wrote about here), but...

Time is flying! I’m now over halfway there! I had one of my routine 2-week ultrasounds last Thursday and it went well, although there was a large discrepancy in fluid...

Week 17! That’s crazy. I am almost halfway there! (Mono-di twin pregnancies are considered full term at 36 weeks, due to complications that can arise after that.) I look about...

Now that I’m past the first trimester, I’m starting to feel like a human being again (although a nauseous human being still). Those first few months were a tough ride....

Of course, when I first took a pee stick test, I wasn’t thinking about being pregnant with twins at all. Who does, right? I was just thinking, “Positive” or “Not...