This thread discusses the Content article: A complicated surgery for delicate lives

"As a consequence of the laser surgery, Hansen's uterus had stretched and only a strategically placed stitch was holding the boys in." It's a cerclage and it is a stitch placed in an incompetent cervix when a mom is likely to have a baby born prematurely because the cervix shortens or opens too early.

In TTTS's case, it is due to pressure caused by excess amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios) created by one twins overworked body...one of the many curve balls TTTS throws.

Thank you for spotlighting this fatal fetal syndrome and the fact that we have amazing doctors, Ball and Belfort, that preform miracles by getting so many of these babies here.