The Mom Who Refused to Give Up on Her Mono Mono Twins
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, for years, Lex Ginger was told pregnancy might never happen because of PCOS and a blood-clotting disorder that made miscarriage far more likely. Then, after becoming pregnant, doctors discovered she was carrying mono-mono twins, a rare and dangerous condition in which identical twins share the same sac and placenta. Some warned the babies had only a 50 percent chance of surviving the first trimester, but Lex chose to celebrate her pregnancy anyway. Here’s her remarkable story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.0 | And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Up next, you'll hear a story from Lex Ginger, a woman who has a remarkable journey |
| 0:22.8 | and is quite possibly the only person to be sworn in as an attorney in the maternity ward of a hospital. |
| 0:31.1 | Here's Lex. I'd always known that I could potentially have fertility issues, so I have something called polycystic ovary syndrome where you have like little cyst all over |
| 0:42.2 | your ovaries and it can make getting pregnant kind of difficult. |
| 0:47.2 | So I'd always been told that when I was starting at 18. |
| 0:50.8 | Since then I've even discovered I have a blood clotting disorder called Factor 5, which makes miscarriages very likely. |
| 0:58.0 | It makes maintaining a pregnancy very difficult, higher chance of stillbirth, etc. |
| 1:03.0 | Very dangerous. |
| 1:05.0 | I had told my husband early on while we were dating that I wasn't sure if I could get pregnant and everything and he said that |
| 1:11.6 | didn't bother him whatsoever. We were in love, etc. We then got married six months later, |
| 1:17.2 | so we celebrated our one year anniversary like a month before we got married. I think people |
| 1:23.4 | probably from undergrad thought I lost my mind for a second, but once you meet Patrick, |
| 1:27.4 | it all makes sense. He's literally such amazing person. And it was just when you know, you know, |
| 1:32.8 | type of thing. And then in October 2018, we decided that we would try this one month in October, |
| 1:40.8 | and if it didn't happen, we were going to hold off until summer 2019 |
| 1:44.5 | because I had to take the bar which is a test that attorneys have to take to practice in |
| 1:52.4 | their state and become licensed so we tried for it and then two weeks three weeks later I |
| 2:00.0 | thought well this is probably not going to be super accurate because of the PCOS, but hey, might as well. I peed on the stick and I put it down in my bathroom. And then I went about my day. I didn't even look at it. I ran errands around town. I didn't even think I was pregnant. I didn't even a thought in my mind that I could even |
| 2:18.3 | possibly or potentially be pregnant. So I literally didn't look at it. I didn't look at the stick. |
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