{"id":248483,"date":"2021-07-04T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248483"},"modified":"2021-07-01T23:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:28:35","slug":"texas-mom-gives-birth-rare-set-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-mom-gives-birth-rare-set-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas mom gives birth to rare set of twins after high risk pregnancy: ‘It’s a blessing’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas mom Rima Aldebbeh<\/a> got quite a shock when her first prenatal ultrasound revealed she was having twins, but that wasn’t her only surprise. The ultrasound also revealed that the two babies shared the same amniotic sac and the same placenta, a phenomenon known as monochorionic-monoamniotic twins<\/em>, which\u00a0is seen in less than 0.1% of all pregnancies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt occurs in less than 1% of all identical twin pregnancies and less than 0.1% of all pregnancies in general,\u201d Dr. Julia Flowers, OBGYN and chairman of the department of medical ethics at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Grapevine told NBC 5<\/a>. “It’s a very risky pregnancy. It\u2019s high risk of having issues with the cords. As you can imagine, they\u2019re in the sac together and it can have higher chances of becoming tangled and the blood supply can become cut off.”<\/p>\n

Aldebbeh, who has three other children, shared that she was overwhelmed with the fear that something would happen to her preborn babies<\/a>. “Too many things went in my head \u2013 especially the bad scenarios like, ‘What’s going to happen’ and \u2018Are they going to live?\u2019” she said. She also shared that it was her husband,\u00a0Rami Ramadan, who kept her calm. “It’s OK. You have to just like pray and everything will be fine,” he would tell her.<\/p>\n