Doctors warned my conjoined twins wouldn’t survive... 💔

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00:00Why would we kill our babies? They're alive. We see them jumping on the ultrasound screen

00:05because they're going to die anyway. Why would we make that process go faster? If they're going to

00:11miscarry, just let that happen naturally. I was pregnant with conjoined twins October 2022 when

00:18I found that I was pregnant for the first time. Super, super nauseous. And I always thought in the

00:22back of my head, oh my gosh, what if it's twins? But this pregnancy would present more challenges

00:26than she could ever imagine. I had really, really bad abdominal pain around 10 weeks. So we decided

00:31to go to the ER. They did an emergency ultrasound, ran to go grab my husband. You are pregnant with

00:37twins, but your twins are very special because they are conjoined and looks like they can't be

00:43separated. Most likely you are going to have a miscarriage. And if you don't have a miscarriage,

00:49I'm going to be stillborn. She's facing every mother's worst nightmare and is forced to make

00:53a heartbreaking decision. Basically, they were telling me, do you want to have an abortion or

00:58not? And to me, that was like a slap in the face. I had three different doctors come in and ask me

01:03the same question. How do you want to proceed? Let God be God. The doctors don't have the final say.

01:09Only God had the final say. So do make it to a term. You will need to have a C-section to deliver the

01:14babies. If we live in a time of modern medicine, we're just going to continue. But her brave decision

01:20would reignite her excitement and led to something beautiful. Found out that they were two little

01:25girls. This is Maria Therese. She's baby A. And then Rachel is baby B, Rachel Claire. We had

01:32ultrasounds just to check for signs of heart failure. Their heart is starting to fail. They're seeing early

01:38signs of heart failure. And their single umbilical cord was starting to not supply enough nutrients,

01:44oxygen, whatever they needed for both of them. They said, we need to deliver within the next few

01:50days. It was finally time for her to meet her conjoined twins in a moment that would last a

01:55lifetime. I had a classical C-section, uh, to deliver the twins. And the babies were born. Maria

02:02Therese and Rachel Claire were born alive at 32 weeks. They allowed my husband in the OR. My mom was

02:09in the OR. A priest was in there and a photographer to, um, capture their, their moments. And what was

02:17really important for us was for them to be baptized and confirmed immediately. So they, uh, put them

02:23directly right on my chest. Maria had her eyes open. She even cried really loud. And the priest was there

02:30and he immediately, uh, baptized them in Latin, uh, Maria and then Rachel, and then confirmed them in

02:36Latin as well. My husband held them and together they breathed in together and then they exhaled together

02:42and then they passed away, um, in his arms. And two years later, after having a miracle rainbow

02:48baby, they will always take their baby to visit her older sisters, making sure that they are never

02:54forgotten. We have to give our children back to God. Ultimately, our children are not for us. They're

02:59gifts. But ultimately, we all go back to the father. So that's what I tried to do for the girls.

03:04And that's what I hope that my message can be for, for others.