Twin Babies Save Mom - from the inside
by Walt Posted on Feb 04, 2008 under Buzz |
One of those stories that make you go, “Awwww!”
I’ll cut to the chase
Mom gets pregnant
Twins
Twins kick like mad in the womb.
Mom bleeds, goes to the hospital possible miscarriage.
What really happened was — it was cancer. Cervical cancer.
The kicking of the twin fetuses (feti?) dislodged the tumor, and that’s what was bleeding
The couple, who also have a five-year-old son, Jack, were thrilled. But three weeks later, Mrs Stepney was back at the hospital with a suspected miscarriage.
“I was just in shock when the doctors told me what it was. When they said that the babies had literally kicked my tumour out, I just couldn’t believe it.
“If I hadn’t been pregnant with the twins, the cancer may not have been discovered until it was too late.
But… she’s still pregnant. And she has cancer. Cancer that’s usually treated with drugs strong enough to force doctors to terminate the pregnancy.
Nothing like killing your own offspring to be, the ones that found the tumor with their feet and saved your life.
Well, I wouldn’t be writing this if it didn’t have a happy ending… Okay, maybe I would. But not today.
“I knew I could have an operation straight away and it would cure me of the cancer, but that would mean getting rid of my babies and I couldn’t do that.
“I had two lives inside me and I just couldn’t give up on them - especially after they had saved me like this.”
Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London agreed to give Mrs Stepney reduced chemotherapy in the hope of stopping the cancer spreading during the pregnancy.
So, what happens with the chemo? Are the babies now deformed or worse… Republican?
“They were born without any hair as a result of the chemotherapy, but other than that, they were healthy.
“When I heard them both let out a cry it was the best sound in the world.”
Four weeks later Mrs Stepney had a hysterectomy to remove the tumour. Tests showed the cancer had not spread.
Here’s a pic of mom and killer kids after their first birthday:
Alice on the left, Harriet on the right, now with hair
Daily Mail –How my twins saved my life by kicking loose a tumour while still in my womb
