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Sound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love

Maggie Sieger
March 08, 2017

Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that everything is going according to plan — she and her husband, Nate, were excited. This is the test when parents get to see their baby’s face for the first time, walking away with incredible images they will treasure for the rest of their life.

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A Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor For A Mid-Surgery Magical Moment

February 20, 2017
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a recent visit from an expectant mother who was 31 weeks pregnant was no different. The woman’s gynecologist suspected the twins she was carrying suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This means that one twin gets almost all the amniotic fluid from the shared placenta while the other gets too little.
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