Twins given under 10% survival chance now prepare for first day of school

A mother whose twin daughters were given less than a 10 per cent chance of survival after a devastating pregnancy complication is celebrating a milestone she once feared she would never witness: Ruby and Scarlett are starting school.Hanna Brameld, 44, from Beckenham, was just 16 weeks pregnant when doctors discovered that her unborn daughters had Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), a potentially life-threatening complication that can occur in twin pregnancies sharing a placenta.The condition was detected during a routine scan after a sonographer noticed that blood was not being distributed evenly between the babies. In TTTS, abnormal blood-vessel connections in the shared placenta can cause one twin to receive too much blood while the other receives too little, putting both babies at serious risk.‘I felt like the floor had disappeared beneath me’Brameld said she was left “frozen” when doctors explained the severity of the condition.