{"id":294826,"date":"2023-07-19T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294826"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:28:57","slug":"mom-twin-killing-each-other-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-twin-killing-each-other-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors said her babies were ‘killing each other’ in the womb. She refused to give up."},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

One mom is sharing<\/a> the story of how doctors pressured her to kill her preborn children, warning her that they were “killing each other” in the womb. She resisted, and now her twin daughters are thriving.<\/p>\n

Laura Watson explained<\/a> that her babies had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a rare condition in which blood flows unevenly between the children in the placenta, resulting in one baby taking most of the nourishment intended for the other baby. This effectively leaves one child undernourished while the other child becomes overnourished. Watson’s doctors advised her to abort as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing can prepare you to hear doctors give terminating your pregnancy as a suggestion,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cI wasn\u2019t given any good choices. I was terrified \u2014 everything happened so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, she realized that there were<\/em> other choices available to her.<\/p>\n

She flew from her home in Northern Ireland to St. George’s Hospital in London, where doctors were able to operate while the twin girls were still in utero, performing an intrauterine laser ablation surgery. \u201cI was told I could do nothing and most likely lose both of them or have a surgery with a 30% survival rate,\u201d she said, noting that doctors still maintained that abortion was an option.<\/p>\n