In loving memory...

Our Angel’s story

Thursday 29th Sep The excitement of finding out we were having identical twin girls was so immense, we were beyond excited and happy. We will always have the most treasured memories of sharing the news with family and friends, celebrating together and starting to plan for our family to come. Unfortunately it just wasn’t meant to be and at 16w we were faced with the devastating news that our baby girls had developed twin to twin transfusion syndrome ( TTTS) and our little Shelby also had selective intrauterine growth restriction (SIUGR), at 16w she was given a 5% chance of survival.  Sharing a placenta makes identical twin pregnancies extremely high risk and unfortunately for our little angels the TTTS won.  From this point we had weekly scans and much to our surprise the TTTS wasn’t progressing and Shelby was growing and starting to move more. We held onto so much hope, every day we kept a positive mind set and did all we could to help our baby girls, despite knowing the odds that were against us! Each week we started to become a little more hopeful but kept a realistic mindset of what may happen. The excess fluid from the TTTS made my tummy very full and very large and it was a lot on my body but we kept going and kept getting through each day! On the 8th September we went for our 20w 4d scan and we’re hit with the devastating news that the TTTS had progressed quite badly and we needed to get in asap to see the surgeon. Throughout everything that was going on Willow was kicking away,  rolling around and chatting away in her element and Shelby continued to fight and definitely did not want to be sitting still in there regardless of the little fluid she had in her sac… Time wasn’t on our side and on the 9th September, one hour before going to see the surgeon, my waters broke. Daddy delivered little Willow at home at 12.13pm and she took her first and last breaths until 12.17pm. Shelby held off until we arrived at the Royal Womens and was born in the ambulance at 12.50pm and took her first and last breaths until 12.52pm. It was just too soon for our babies and despite their fight there were just too many odds against them. Share