Our Diagnosis

Yesterday (Jan 22, 2010) I went for my routine every two week check up..i was 24 weeks and 1 day pregnant.
During the ultra sound they found that Baby B ( Molly) is recieving more nutrients from the placenta than Baby A ( Emma).
This is known as twin to twin transfusion and is very dangerous for the well being of both babies. Baby Molly is known as the reciever and Baby Emma is known as the donor. Emma is supplying all of the nutrients and fluid to Molly therefore Emma's amnio fluid is low and Molly's is really high. Because of how much fluid was in molly's sac they were concerned about it causing my water to break and me go into labor so they needed to remove fluid immediiately.

By removing this fluid from Molly it will also give Emma more room as the large sac from Molly was causing Emma to be "shrink wrapped".

Last night they did a procedure on me called amniocentesis reduction. It was only suppose to be a 5 min procedure but because they didnt have the right tools they had to manually remove a lot of the fluid from mollys sac...which took about 45min-an hour.
This was very scary and painful for me. During the procedure I began having contractions a min and a half a part and this continued on for hours. They gave me medicine to help stop the contractions but as of this afternoon i am still having some.. They just arent close together.
So that is a blessing.

Having the amnio procedure was not a permanent fix. They only did it to prevent my water from breaking and to give Emma more room. This alslo relieves pressure from Molly. Her little heart is having to work too hard to keep up with all the blood supply being sent to her.

In a matter of days they expect Mollys fluid to return and Emmas to decline. Causing Emma to continue to go without as she is doning all of her supply to Molly. Too much for Molly can cause her to go into cardiac arrest and too little for Emma will cause to not make it from being deprived.
The only fix for this is a laser surgery to correct the vessels in the placenta that are causing all the supply to go to Molly. The founder of this laser surgery( Dr De Lia) has been doing this for over 20 yrs. He is the best in the world because he invented it. So no one knows this procedure better than him. We are waiting to hear back from him to know if he will accept us and help us save our babies. We will know by Monday, If he will take us then we will be off to Wisconsin.

I am nervous of the risk involved of doing this surgery but doing nothing at all is the biggest risk. If the Dr's in Wisconsin wont take us, then all we can do is continue to have the amnio procedure done over and over where they remove the fluid from Mollys sac but Dr's have assured us that is not the best scenerio for the health of our girls. The laser surgery is the only and best fix to the problem, So pray that God will remain faithful.

I have so many emotions of guilt and fear and saddness. I know that God is in charge i fully believe this or else i would not be asking for your prayers. But it is so hard for me knowing that my babies are struggling for their lives and there is NOTHING i can do about it. I am suppose to protect them and i feel so helpless. Please lift my babies up in prayer over and over because i fully believe that there is POWER In numbers. My baby girls deserve to have this chance at a healthy life. THey already have a nursery to come home too and parents who have waited and prayed so long for them before they were ever even conceived. And we NEED YOU to lift them up over and over to our God. I NEED HIM to save our girls.
My Babies. My heart. Mommy and Daddy love you more than you even know.
Hang in there for us!!!!