Expecting?
Today Van and Lorry, the babies eldest daughter is incubating, had another scan, this time it was that much looked forward to 20 week, or correctly called, an anomaly scan and I am delighted to record that neither baby appears to have any structural problems. There the little peas in a pod were lying, top to tail, all the easier to aim a good kick at a siblings head. Amy and I sat there, looking wonder at these two little babies waving their perfect minature hands at us. There was one moment as Amy turned her face to me and whispered 'Babies' that I felt an almost overwhelming feeling of happiness, not only do the twins not appear to have any major anatomical problems but there is also no sign of the dreaded twin to twin transfusion syndrome. Both of them are the same size, give or take a couple of millimetres, and the amount of fluid they each have is completely normal. On Friday they will be scanned again, this time at a specialist Fetal Cardiac Unit, to check that they have no subtle, or major, cardiac abnormality as, apparently, twins are more likely to have heart malformations. There will still be a long way to go, but if all is well at this next scan I shall really be celebrating and starting to look forward to being a Grandmother to identical twins.
Tomorrow on BBC's Panorama there is an 'expose' of the problems in the maternity services. One part of me is really looking forward to it, as long as it is a balanced view, but a more cynical side to my nature is already anticipating that it will be as toothless as the ITV programme last year. Why do I suspect this? Well, in The Mail there is an article today which reports on the content of the programme and the only time they mention a Manager it is a Trust Chief Executive. Guess who she blames? The Midwives, and the impression I get is that she gets away with it. Oh well, we'll see.
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Della (3.5.07 04:16) Lovely to hear the twins are doing well! Earlier today I read an article on twins that had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, one was born 3x the size of the other, and thought of you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=452163&in_page_id=1774 I am planning on watching that Panorama programme too, i hope they don't blame the individual midwives but recognise that the system is at fault |
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Flighty / Website (3.5.07 08:53) I wanted to watch the programme but couldn't unfortunately. I do hope that it was fair to all. One problem nowadays is that most executives want the status but rarely accept the responsibilities as well. They nearly always blame others. Take care. |
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midwifemuse / Website (3.5.07 11:06) Flighty - The programme's on tonight if you want to watch it, you can picture me shouting at the TV if it's a lot of hogwash. Della _ thanks you the link, I'm off to have a look. |
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Flighty / Website (3.5.07 11:21) So it is! I will hopefully watch it as you know my feelings on the subject. |
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mumof4 / Website (3.5.07 17:58) So pleased that Van and Lorry are developing well. Has she found out the sex? I bet you probably saw it on the scan? Will it be hard to keep stumm if she doesn't want to know herself?? |
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midwifemuse / Website (3.5.07 18:48) mumof4 - I didn't see what sex they are, I'm useless at seeing the fine detail, heads, legs, hands, yes I can identify those but trying to decide what is cord and what isn't, impossible. |