{"id":176686,"date":"2017-12-27T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176686"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:32:04","slug":"alive-premature-twins-19-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alive-premature-twins-19-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother shares powerful photos of identical twins miscarried at 19 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amanda Powell and her husband Jon were thrilled to be expecting identical twin boys Walker and Clark. But after a diagnosis led to their premature births and deaths, Powell struggled to not feel anger toward women who have chosen to abort<\/a> their children and celebrate their “right” to do so.<\/p>\n

At 15 weeks gestation, Powell began to suffer bleeding and was taken to the emergency room. She learned she had a subchorionic hemorrhage and was placed on bed rest. Doctors monitored her twice a week and after three weeks they learned the bleed had begun to resolve itself. Powell was elated, but that joy and relief lasted only a few days.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Powell holds her premature identical twins Walker and Clark.<\/p><\/div>\n

“A week after the great news, I woke in the middle of the night to large amounts of fluid loss,” she wrote on her blog Full Heart Sound Mind<\/a>. “Terrified and only 19 weeks along, I phoned in and was told to get an appointment first thing in the morning. […] The bleed had caused the water on Baby A to break. Both of our baby boys were still healthy and had strong beating hearts on our ultrasound that day. Jon and I were given a very poor prognosis for both of our baby boys.”<\/p>\n

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Walker and Clark, premature identical twins born too early to survive outside the womb.<\/p><\/div>\n

The couple was given the choice of inducing, which Powell says would “essentially terminate the pregnancy,” or go home and hope labor didn’t start. The boys needed three more weeks to be strong enough for doctors to intervene if they were born prematurely. Another ultrasound a few days later showed that the boys were still healthy and strong, but later that same day the labor pains began.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Powell’s premature identical twins Walker and Clark born too soon to survive outside the womb.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jonathan “Walker” Powell was born first, weighing 9.2 ounces. His brother Clark Alexander Powell was born 13 minutes later weighing 9.5 ounces.<\/p>\n

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“Our perfect identical boys were born with strong, beating hearts, but at 19 weeks and 3 days they did not have the proper lung development to survive outside of my body,” wrote Powell. “John and I were able to hold them and love them during their short time on Earth, we loved our babies until they became angels. They were very much alive at birth and Clark even startled to our voices a couple of times, which made our hearts feel joy even in the midst of so much pain.”<\/p>\n