Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. If I sound funny, I am recording

in a bathroom with a small microphone on my phone and I don't know why I can't get the

exhaust fan to turn off in here, but we are making it work. So thank you for your patience.

I have been radio silent more or less for the past couple weeks and I know so many of you

have been looking for and waiting for an update on our twins to kind of bring everybody

up to speed on August 2nd. I was admitted to the hospital and gave a couple updates then

essentially if we go back even a little bit before then. At the end of June, early July,

we found out that the twins had twin to twin transfusion syndrome, which the long story

short, there are multiple different kinds of twins, not just identical and fraternal, although

that is true, essentially some twins share a placenta, other twins have their own placenta,

some twins have their own amniotic sacs and some twins share an amniotic sac and our

twins share a placenta, which comes with some unique risks and one of those risks is

twin to twin transfusion. So end of June, early July, we found out that they had twin

to twin transfusion syndrome. It progressed to the point where we had to get down to

Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland where they do basically surgery on babies in utero.

And we had this successful surgery at the very beginning of July, I believe. And when

we returned to Boston, our doctors were very pleased with how the girls responded to

the surgery, which is awesome. So much so that at the end of July, my, what ended up unbeknownst

to me being my last appointment with my OB, they talked about adjusting our scheduled

C-section from 36 weeks, which of course is a month early to 38 weeks because they were

doing so well. They were scheduled for a C-section at 36 weeks because of the shared placenta

and the risks that come along with that. Well, on August 1st, I felt one of the babies

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