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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Rikki Loftus

Mother’s agony as baby dies from rare ‘twin to twin transfusion’ syndrome

A mother whose daughter was born without a heartbeat is raising awareness on World Prematurity Day on the one-year anniversary of her baby being discharged from hospital.

Helen Hudson, 40, a solutions and partnership lead for a social enterprise, was 20 weeks pregnant when one of her twin babies, Beatrice, passed away in the womb, but she carried both siblings a further eight weeks before undergoing an emergency caesarean.

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