Incredible! Twins underwent surgery 10 weeks before birth

Once there was a married couple - Sarah and Dan Mond. Once upon a time, they lived for nothing, but waited for babies: Sarah had twins to be born, boys, who even had their names invented - Henry and Sebastian. Everything was going well until during the next ultrasound the doctors did not diagnose a complication: feto-fetal blood transfusion syndrome. Tricky words mean that there are common vessels in the circulatory systems supplying the twins with essential substances. In such a situation, one of the children acts as a donor, the second as the recipient. And while the donor suffers from a lack of nutrients, the second is experiencing excess fluid pressure. Bad and that, and more.Photo: @sarah.maundThis complication occurs in 5, or even 25 percent of all multiple pregnancies. It can end very badly. The chance that newborn babies will die is 60-100 percent. But the children of Sarah and Dan had a chance. Doctors made a decision: surgery is needed. With the help of a laser it was possible to divide common vessels and save the little ones. But it was necessary to wait a bit. The boys were still too small. When the mass of each fruit reached a kilogram, Sarah was sent for an operation. - I was so scared that I didn’t even understand what the doctors said to me. But I had to do everything I could to make my boys survive, ”the woman told the publication. During the operation, the doctors watched through the monitor. And that's what struck them: the boys seemed to understand what they were looking at. They wriggled and jerked their feet - as if they were dancing. “It was unbelievable,” says the father of the little ones, who also attended the operation.1/5Photo: still from videoPhoto: still from videoPhoto: video stillPhoto: www.tamba.org.ukPhoto: www.tamba.org.ukThe operation lasted an hour. Then came the agonizing wait – a repeat scan was scheduled six hours later to show how the babies had tolerated the surgery. “Those were terrifying hours. We didn’t know if our boys were alive,” Sarah recalls. “The children were alive. But the operation was not a complete success – some signs of the dangerous syndrome still remained. Repeated intervention was ruled out. The children would definitely not have survived… The babies were born when Sarah was 32 weeks pregnant. Contractions began, and the birth proceeded naturally. But soon the woman had to be urgently sent for a caesarean section – she had a pulmonary embolism. A blood clot formed in Sarah’s lungs, and she couldn’t breathe. “The main thing is that my boys were born, they were alive, and it was just a magical moment. “I felt like we won the lottery,” Sarah shares. Now Henry and Sebastian have already celebrated their second birthday. “Never lose hope. Be strong. Think positive. Take care of yourself, your children, and get plenty of rest,” Sarah advised all mothers who may face the same misfortune that she experienced.