My Tangible Peace and Tayler's Treasures & Blessings from Heaven, Our shared story.

My Tangible Peace makes some beautiful sculptures in memory of much wanted babies gone too soon. So today I decided to share our story on a fb page that is offering big giveaway, a chance to win one of these precious sculptures by My Tangible Peace. Thank you so much to Tayler's Treasures & Blessings from Heaven for this amazing opportunity!

Without further ado, our story that I shared.

"Our twins were our all and everything. After about eight years of trying to conceive, most of all naturally we decided to try something different and elected for an IVF cycle that would happen in August 2012.

We conceived that IVF cycle, so very lucky and by September we learned we would be having identical twins. Our hearts were filled with happiness and the future felt so bright. During that first ultrasound with they were being labeled baby A and baby B I remember turning to my husband and saying to him with a smile, "baby A and baby B, it's our little apple and banana". After that day the names just kind of stuck.

With scares here and there, hyperstimulation, a cyst rupture, bleeding and being told we had a "threatened miscarriage", we were fearful for our precious little babies. By November our fears were resting, that period of time to be cautious was passing us by and we got to enjoy watching both our babies grow with each of our biweekly and then weekly ultrasounds. We learned we were having identical twin girls, we were on top of the world.

Finally by our December ultrasound we learned there could be a problem, possible of having TTTS, which is twin twin transfusion syndrome. Our hearts were heavy and we were so worried for our babies. We moved forward that week and scheduled immediately for our girls to have a laser surgery hoping it would separate the connected placenta and they would have equal nutrition. The surgery went well but now know that the micro vessels are believed to have not been all lasered apart, you can't see micro vessels.

On December 9th we learned that our baby A had died, her heart was no longer beating and she was still. The night would be a struggle for baby B and myself with a bad allergic drug reaction and little sleep. The next morning on December 10th our baby B's heart rate had dropped and by that afternoon although her heart had flickers of color through out it but it was no longer beating, she was not moving, she too was gone.

I would not labor them, not right away, daily contractions, and 18 days later induced on December 28th 2012. After about 17 hours of labor and back labor they were born. At 11:20am our Apple Marie was born at 5.6 ounces, then at 11:30am our Banana Lee was born at 7.4 ounces. Our twins were beautiful and looked so much like their daddy.

Almost was rushed into emergency surgery because the placenta did not want to be birthed, too much blood loss almost had a d&c and blood transfusion but with one last attempt everything was born.

That is a short story about the girls. Since that time I have created a page in their memory for support and graphics called Fruit Of The Womb, TTTS Angels, a charity called Fruit Of The Womb Angels, a website for the charity, a blog where I write my thoughts at blogger and where I host giveaways; and I only plan to do more things in our twins memory to honor their lives. Everything I do is for our twins, they hold my heart and made me a mother.

Thank you for letting me share our story. I love My Tangible Peace and hope to some day own a beautiful keepsake in our twins likeness. <3 "