Re: IUFD of twin 1 at approx 19 wks

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Good luck and blessings to you and your family.

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Amanda

At Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Kylie wrote:
>
>My 1st U/S discovered twins at 18wks, everything looked fine but could
>not see if a membrane was between them or not so I had to return in
>2-3wks, 17 days later at 2nd U/S twin 1 had died approx 2wks prior.
>Blood test taken at 18wks (day of 1st U/S) showed high risk for Neural
>Tube Defects (even for twins), but Dr says it is because 1 was dying not
>necessarily a problem with the babies as twin 2 is very healthy.  I had
>a lot of nausea and didn't eat or drink a lot, I had a lot of headaches
>but managed to look after other 3 children.  I have since read you are
>supposed to drink plenty of fluids with twins and I just drank normally
>as it was middle of winter and I didn't know it was twins.  I just need
>to know what happened to my baby, I feel I caused this.
>
>I also had slight spotting at 11wks, could this have meant something was
>not quite right or do you think it was a hydrated or a nutritional
>deficiency which caused the death of my baby?

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