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One healthy baby or two high risk twins?

Taya • Tue, Nov 29 • Mommy to Elliotte: 7/9/17 💕 And Killian 3/10/19 💙 Sullivan 7/15/23 💙

So yesterday at my 8 week ultrasound, I found out we're having twins! They're rare and high risk: sharing both the same sac and placenta. These twins only account for one in 35,000 twins. One is measuring a week behind the other, and my doctor says there is a pretty high chance that one will be absorbed (vanishing twin syndrome), in which case I'd go on to have a normal pregnancy with one baby.

If they both continue to develop, they are high risk, as the cords can easily become tangled, or than one twin might take all the nourishment from the other. I'd definitely have a C section before I'm full term.

Of course, nature will take its course and there's not much I can do, but I keep wondering: would I rather have one twin vanish and go on to have a healthy single baby, or have them both and have several complications? 😱

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