Coping with the loss of a multiple requires moving on, but never forgetting
By Sonia Mendes, Ottawa Citizen March 3, 2012
While the prospect of twins, triplets or quadruplets is exciting, it can also come with unique and complex health risks.
A loss can take the form of "vanishing twin syndrome" (the loss of one or more embryos before gestational week 12), twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (a random abnormality that causes one twin to receive less than normal amounts of blood supply during pregnancy while the other receives too much, possibly harming one or both), miscarriage
To Read more about how other parents of lost multiples cope and move forward, go to: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/When+happy+ending/6244638/story.html#ixzz1oMwXmsyy
Lynda Haddon is a multiple births educator and chair of the breastfeeding
and loss support networks for Multiple Births Canada (MBC). She is also the mother of twin girls. Photograph by: Pat McGrath, The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Citizen
While the prospect of twins, triplets or quadruplets is exciting, it can also come with unique and complex health risks.
A loss can take the form of "vanishing twin syndrome" (the loss of one or more embryos before gestational week 12), twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (a random abnormality that causes one twin to receive less than normal amounts of blood supply during pregnancy while the other receives too much, possibly harming one or both), miscarriage
To Read more about how other parents of lost multiples cope and move forward, go to: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/When+happy+ending/6244638/story.html#ixzz1oMwXmsyy
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