Lauren Lawton can thank lady luck for a serendipitous toothache. Lauren was pregnant with twins Mackenzie and Anna, when she received horrifying news.
The twins shared a placenta. That meant one of the girls was getting too much blood and the other was getting too little. It was likely that if they were carried to term, only one would survive.
Then, at 24 weeks, Lauren got a tooth infection. Doctors say it was the abscessed tooth that saved both of her babies.
It's truly a wonder that the sisters will get to live together, often when twins are separated, like Elizabeth and Ann, they feel an eternal emptiness.
The infection forced her into labor. Lauren had to give birth to her babies before one of them could die.
“They showed them to me and then they took them. I was glad they came out and cried,” she said. Each baby weighed just over a pound and needed heart surgery to repair open valves.
“They were a pound getting surgery. It was nerve-racking because they could have died,” said Lauren. But the surgery was successful.
Just three months later and Mackenzie and Anna are plump, chubby baby girls.
“Everything they do is awesome because we didn’t think they were going to get that far,” said their father Ryan Lloyd.
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