I am following a theme of eco-friendly, green living, and recycling this week in honor of Earth Day, so I’m recycling some TTTS Awareness posts and images. The following information is copied directly from the American Pregnancy Association. Does the mother have any signs of Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome? A mother whose twins have […]
TTTS Tuesday: Heatherly Rose and Winter Lille
I met Taylor in the TTTS Grief Support group. It was shortly after she lost her girls and she was devastated. Today we honor her girls by sharing their story. Taylor’s experience shows how suddenly TTTS can occur and further emphasizes why earlier and more frequent ultrasounds are so important in multiples pregnancies. Heatherly […]
TTTS Symptoms
Today for TTTS Tuesday I want to focus on symptoms of TTTS. If you know anyone pregnant with identical twins, there ARE symptoms. I did not know this, yet I had 4 of the 5 symptoms below by 14 weeks gestation, which I blew off and just assumed it was from having two babies in […]
Bittersweet moments – TTTS Tuesday Special Edition
I have become close friends with several other moms who have lost one of their twins. One of those is Brooke, who lost one of her twins to TTTS. You can read Walker and Willis’s story here. I just wanted to dedicate today to Walker and his angel twin Willis as they celebrate their birthday. […]
Will I Ever Be Content?
I have been struggling a lot this last week. I don’t know why. Nothing in particular has triggered it, that I can think of beyond the fact that I miss my baby girl so, so much. I have so very much to be thankful for, yet I am not content. I want FOUR children. […]
While Others Stand Still (TTTS Tuesday – Andrea)
Grief is a funny thing. Not ha ha funny, obviously, but in the way it impacts us. My loyal readers know that I am no stranger to grief, having lost my own daughter one year ago on the 12th. So when this absolutely mindblowing and incomprehensible act happened on the 14th, I was already in […]
52 Hours
Two days ago (December 10th) was my twins’ first Birthday. Only one of them was here for us to celebrate with. Today is the one year anniversary of sweet Kathryn’s death. We had her in our world for 52 hours. I am struggling greatly to find the balance between gratefulness, happiness, and grief so strong […]
World Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) Awareness Day – Awareness Saves Lives!
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TTTS World Awareness Day – Dec 7th
Please share the word! Get your local news stations involved by sharing some of the PSAs and the Press Release that are posted on the TTTSFoundation.Org webpage. You can also get some really cool banners for your Facebook Cover at Random Renee’s Facebook page. She has made some beautiful banners! Here is the official Press […]
Shutting Down – my 100th post
This is my 100th post. Yay! Pop the champagne! Very appropriately it is true to the overall nature of my blog. Surviving after the loss of a child. I wrote this a few days ago but I am glad I did not post it then. I was having a REALLY BAD DAY! Thankfully, the […]
Day 17
On Thanksgiving Day last year, November 24, 2011, I had been lying in a hospital bed for 17 days, hoping and praying that my babies would be able to continue to grow stronger. It was lonely. I slept most of the day, in and out of a groggy state, wondering how much longer I would […]
TTTS Tuesday – Awareness.Education.Hope
First off – since TTTS and Preemies seem to go hand in hand, I have an announcement! For anyone who signed the petition for the March of Dimes to “Light the White House Purple” in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the March of Dimes – we got enough signatures! Yay! And… even more importantly: […]
World Prematurity Day: Tiny and Kathryn
World Prematurity Day 2012 Today is World Prematurity Day (hope you are wearing purple!) Our girls were born at 30 weeks and 5 days. To most people that seems really early. To someone who has has had a 24/26/28 weeker, anything beyond 30 weeks is where you hope to get. But our girls were not […]
TTTS Tuesday – Benjamin and JD’s story
Today Shasta tells about her TTTS experience with her twin sons Benjamin and JD. Her story makes me laugh a little because we also had two kids and decided to have another baby and were surprised to find out we had #3 and #4 in there! Thankfully Shasta has double survivors, but that does not […]
