Just when we thought we were above water...

After the crazy weekend at primary children's hospital getting surgery on Adrie's broken elbow, we thought maybe we would have a breather... but not so.

We went to our weekly appointment at the perinatologist and found out that the fluid levels of the babies had changed since last week and they are now in the "danger zone" Baby B (the one with more fluid) was above 8 cm and it is not supposed to be above 8. Baby A (the one in the smaller sac) only has between 1.5 and just under 2 cm of fluid and they are not supposed to drop below 2cm. Her sac is almost shrink wrapped around her little body. They could also not find a bladder showing up on Baby A (and it was clearly there last week) which means she is not getting enough fluid anymore to make pee so we went from maybe turning into Twin to Twin Transfusion, to a stage 2 TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrome) Basically the short version of TTTS is that because the babies share one placenta they are at higher risk and with TTTS they are not sharing the blood flow in the placenta making it dangerous for both babies. One is getting too much and one is not getting enough.

So after over 2 hours of scanning on the ultra sounds and 3 different doctors looking at the situation, we were told we need to fly to LA California on wed. and have surgery thursday.

The surgery is an in-utero laperoscopic surgery that will go into the placenta and laser the blood vessels so the babies can't share them anymore. It basically cotterizes the vessels to stop the flow from going back and forth.

The surgery is risky to the babies, but it is a greater risk to not to the surgery. Without the surgery, they say there is a 95% chance that the babies won't make it, so unfortunately we don't really have a choice.

We are so very nervous and emotional and are praying that both babies are strong enough to handle this surgery and that they will both be ok.

You can actually watch the surgery we will be having done

here

and the doctor in the video is the one we will be having do the surgery as well.

The statistics are supposedly favorable for this surgery, 90% survival rate for one baby and 70% for both, but when it comes to your children you don't want a % for success unless it is 100%.. So that is what we are praying for.

For the next few days we would appreciate all the prayers we can get for these little girls to be ok and that this surgery will be successful and both babies will be healthy!