![]() 'We were really upset but at the same time we were in quite a privileged position in that we had time to prepare ourselves for the sad news. Mrs Van der Land, from Allendale, Northumberland, is 'still looking forward to meeting both babies' in around four months' time, even though one will never come home Mrs Van der Land said: 'Grieving for your lost baby whilst still carrying her and her co-twin is a bittersweet and unexpected situation to find yourself in. This meant she had severe interuterine growth restriction. The baby had a chromosomal translocation called 15q26-qter deletion syndrome, and she had lost her IGF1R gene - a gene for growth. They have since found out that she had chromosomal translocation, which is when chromosomes form abnormally.Įither pieces of chromosomes break off and swap places, or a chromosome gets attached to another one. Unfortunately at 17 weeks the family learned that the little girl's heart had stopped beating. What followed was two months of tests at the Fetal Medicine Unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. 'They said she was showing signs of struggling and was quite a bit smaller than her brother.' 'On the first scan they both looked perfect, but at 12 weeks the little girl looked smaller, so we had scans every week. 'I also had a strange feeling that something wasn't quite right. 'I sort of knew straight away it was twins because it felt completely different to my daughter. ![]() Mrs Van der Land said: 'Then we were ecstatic to find out we were expecting boy/girl twins earlier this year. Their dream came true for the first time 18 months ago when she gave birth to their daughter Ottilie. 'It was part of our wedding vows to have children, and we were thinking three,' said Mrs Van der Land. Mrs Van der Land and her 39-year-old husband, an earth sciences lecturer at Newcastle University, had dreams of starting a family when they married two years ago. There is controversy and a lack of strong evidence regarding the best time to deliver the baby. This can cause death or brain damage in around 50 per cent, according to literature.įor twins that do not share a placenta, the risk of death or damage is much lower for the surviving twin. Sharing a placenta with the demised twin can lead to anaemia, low blood pressure or restriction of blood flow. ![]() The outcome for the other twin's health will depend on when the demised twin passes and whether the twins share a placenta.Ī co-twin demise in the first trimester doesn't appear to increase risks to the other twin.įor twins that share a placenta, generally the outcome for the other twin is not good. With proper care and management, review of studies, the other twin can still be born. In later pregnancy, it becomes compressed between the other twins' sac and the uterus wall, forming a foetus papyraceous. In early pregnancy, once the twin dies, most of it will be absorbed leaving behind a small flattened remnant known as the foetus papyraceous. If it is genetic, the identical twin may also suffer the same problems. It mostly happens with monozygotic (identical) twins. Known as demise of a twin, it may be due to a wide range of conditions. The death of one twin in the first trimester occurs in fewer than seven per cent of twins, according to research.Īfter 20 weeks, death of one twin would be described as a 'late loss', between 0.5 and 6.5 per cent of all twin pregnancies.
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