Triplets in trouble
Can the surgeons save three babies with a deadly condition?
For Susie and Andy getting pregnant again after having their son Henry was a gruelling journey. Susie has severe polycystic ovary syndrome and the pair spent £100,000 over five years on IVF, which eventually helped her conceive triplets.
But now, the couple has discovered that two of the babies have a condition called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
‘We’ve gone through so much IVF to get here,’ says a tearful Susie. ‘You’re given them and then they’re taken away.’ Without an operation there’s a 90% chance the babies will die but the surgery comes with a 10% chance of losing one or all of the triplets.
Emotional
In this episode of Baby Surgeons we follow the staff at St George’s Hospital in London, and as well as treating Susie they must also operate on Noreen, whose unborn baby has his amniotic sac twisted around him.
All the operations are a matter of life and death and it’s an emotional experience.
‘It’s one of those moments where you hold your breath,’ says Susie. ‘What you don’t realise is you’ve been holding your breath the whole time.’