During the scan, the ultrasound tech was extremely quiet and didn’t say a word. After when she was done with the scan, she left the room to talk to our doctor. The doctor came into the room after their discussion to do a few more scan shots of the twins and determined that indeed we were going to have mono mono twins since they can’t locate the membrane. As we were wrapping up our scan he mentioned that he was wanted to discuss something with us.
After I got dressed, Johnny and I met our doctor in an office. It took him awhile to get into the room - approx 15 mins. When he entered he sat down and I had a gut feeling that he was going to deliver us some bad news.
When our MFM doctor came into the room, he sat down and told us that one of our twin babies had hydrops.
What is hydrops fetalis?
Hydrops fetalis is a condition in the fetuscharacterized by an accumulation of fluid, or edema, in at least two fetal compartments.[
When our doctor told us the news we were just shocked and speechless. He continued to talk about the future medical plans for the twins and the pro/cons on this pregnancy. There was sooo much information to process that i couldn’t express my feelings.
Here were the options our MFM doctor told us.
- Maybe the twin with hydrops will demise in the next couple of weeks
- Go to UCSF for an intervention procedure at 17 weeks
- Go to Washington Hospital/UCSF clinic for a Chromosome testing to test the placenta for noonan syndrome.
- Just terminate the pregnancy.
When we left the doctor’s office, I broke down in the garage area. I felt so helpless and this journey we have been wanting to start a family is about to end due to the news we got about one of the twins and their hydrops conditions.
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