
“Intro to Twin Pregnancies: Types of Twins, and Why it Matters” – with Dr. Jen Lam-Rachlin
Healthful Woman Podcast
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Mono Mono Coanic Twin Pregnancy
In mono mono coanic twin pregnancy, if something happens to one twin, it can't affect the surviving twin. If they don't share a placenta and something happens to the first baby, let's say the first baby passes and udero ouno, it dies. It won't directly affect the other baby. But if they share a common blood supply, and one of them dies, inside. There's a huge pressure shift in the blood flow in this inicans - there's a very high chance of effecting the surviving baby. And so we don't have the same options of like, let's wait and see, necessarily, that we would have if there's two
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