Pregnancy Patient Stories

Note: Patient treatments and results may not be representative of all similar cases.

Alisha K.: High-Risk Pregnancy

After being diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus during her first pregnancy, when Alisha K. found out she was pregnant again (this time with twins), she returned to the same doctor who delivered her son.

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Cassandra and Dalton S.: Maternal Fetal Medicine

Cassandra was pregnant with monochorionic diamniotic twins. The pregnancy took a scary turn when the 16-week ultrasound showed one of the babies was healthy, but the other had minimal fluid in her sac.

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Corinna Barto: High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery

At 35 weeks and a day into her pregnancy, Corinna gave birth to twin girls after experiencing anemia, problems with amniotic fluid, and severe contractions.

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Rachel Lendyak-Peters — Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)

When Rachel was 15 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound revealed her twin boys shared the same placenta, which could put them at risk for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Rachel had in utero surgery right away. Learn more about her experience with the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center at UPMC Magee.

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