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I was 19 weeks pregnant with identical twin girls when the doctor told me they had Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. A rare disease of the blood flow between the fetuses . . . fatal for both if left untreated. I was introduced to a perinatologist at UCSD Medical Center who had undergone extensive training and study of this condition and described a laser surgery that could be performed to correct the flow of blood. I would be the second person to have the procedure done in Southern California. After three and a half months of bed rest, my twin daughters were born at 34 weeks. They weighed 5lbs each and were absolutely perfect and healthy. When I first laid eyes on their angelic faces, the first thing I did was count their toes.
My favorite picture taken not too long after they were born: their feet, with all "twenty toes".