Author: Mariah Wheeler

Nia and Robert seemed like a regular couple. Married, 3 children, and their careers on track, everything seemed to be bright ahead. They were about to have lives turned upside down in ways they could never have predicted. Nia was so excited to find out she was pregnant for the third time. She and her husband Robert already had six-year-old Shai and twin boys Riley and Alexander aged two. Nia felt different with her third pregnancy, it felt more intense and she got big quickly but just put it down to her body knowing exactly what to do this time round. It…

When Sarah and Bill found out that they were expecting twins, they became incredibly overjoyed. But their joy was soon mixed with worry when doctors discovered that the children were so-called monochorionic twins, or identical twins that share a placenta and an inner amniotic sac. Such a pregnancy presents big risks, so Sarah was hospitalized for 57 days before giving birth to the twins via a cesarean section. But when the twins were born, everyone in the maternity ward witnessed something unbelievable. The twins were born within 46 seconds of each other and doctors soon realized that everything had gone well—both…