Home sweet home for miracle twins
Published: November 28, 2007
A YOUNG Chard family are celebrating the homecoming of their miracle babies this week after being told they were unlikely to survive.
Rachael Glynn (22) and Jason Dunn (23) bought home identical twins Sophie and Jessica Dunn who were born weighing just 1lb12oz and 3lb2oz after developing Twin To Twin Transfusion Syndrome in the womb.
TTTS is a dangerous condition where twins share the same placenta with one effectively feeding off the other.
Rachael, said: “We were told they had TTTS 16 weeks into the pregnancy. Jessica was quite a lot bigger than Sophie and we were told they probably wouldn’t make it - and to prepare ourselves for them to die inside me.
“I was on edge the whole pregnancy - it was really stressful.”
The twins were delivered by caesarean section at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital on September 11 - around ten weeks early - and were kept in incubators and on breathing equipment in the neonatal unit.
The tiny babies endured numerous infections and complications with Jessica having a brain haemorrhage and a thickened heart and Sophie developing three hernias.
The twins are now safe at home and getting stronger.
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