Byron and Lincoln Ryman was born in March 2007. Their parents, Todd and Nicole Ryman, have been trying to have kids for so long, and finally Mrs Ryman got pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF), and she got a twin pregnancy.
Later on, the doctor noticed that there were some problems with her pregnancy. It was discovered that one of the twins was significantly smaller than the other one. The twins developed twin to twin transfusion syndrome, which may occurs only to some fetuses who shared the same placenta (monochorionic twins). The unbalanced transfusion between the babies cause Bryon to get hyper perfused while Lincoln was getting hypo perfused.
The parents were given an option to terminate Lincoln, the smaller baby, in hopes of saving Bryon. However, they didn’t agree. “I wanted to have 2 babies not one”, said Mrs Ryman.
During the pregnancy she was having weekly scans and she said the doctors would ‘write Lincoln off’ and told her to ‘be prepared to not see a heartbeat next week’.
In March 2007, she was induced at 29 weeks of gestation after the doctor discovered that Bryon had stop growing, and delivery of the babies seems to be the best option. The babies were born 11 weeks premature. Bryon, the firstborn is 3 times larger than his little brother, Lincoln. Bryon birth weight was 1.54kg while Lincoln was 530g only.
Born prematurely, both babies had been struggles to survive those critical periods with all the complication of premature birth. Initially the parents thought that they will have two boys with multiple health issues. In the beginning they had suffered from breathing problems, heart condition, and Lincoln had to take his food through feeding tube until the age of two. However, as miraculous as they are, these boys condition improved progressively and are doing very well.
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