N\u00e1 sewe jaar van trane op die bitter pad van onvrugbaarheid het \u2019n egpaar van Brackenfell net voor Kersfees \u2019n drieling in die w\u00eareld verwelkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die identiese tweeling, Maden\u00e9 en Zelke, en enkelbaba Amiah is op 21 Desember in Panorama- hospitaal op 30 weke vir Simon en Merwede van Tonder gebore; vir die Van Tonders \u201cdrie wonderwerk-babatjies\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die paartjie is in 2015 getroud en het soos die meeste ander paartjies gedink swangerskap sal vinnig volg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar polisistiese ovariumsindroom, wat ovulasie baie moeilik maak, is kort daarna by Merwede gediagnoseer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 ses maande van probeer het hulle met hormoonbehandeling begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het oor die volgende paar jaar deur drie dokters, vier inseminasies, \u2019n operasie en ontelbare hormoonbehandelings gegaan. In 2019, n\u00e1 die vierde onsuksesvolle inseminasie, het ek deur \u2019n diep depressie gegaan en ons het besluit om geen behandeling vir \u2019n jaar te ondergaan nie en net mekaar te geniet,\u201d s\u00ea Merwede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2020 het die paartjie besluit om die Tygerberg-hospitaal te besoek om met in vitro-bevrugting te begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie voordeel van Tygerberg is dat die proses hier minder as die helfte kos as by \u2019n private praktyk, maar die waglys is bitter lank. Ons het \u2019n jaar gewag om met die proses te begin,\u201d s\u00ea Simon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns was versigtig optimisties en realisties oor in vitro-bevrugting, maar ons was rustig. Deur al die hormooninspuitings en hospitaalbesoeke was die proses net soveel meer moeiteloos as al die vorige kere se behandelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het elke klein mylpaal gevier, die dag toe die dokter nege follikels (eiersakkies) uithaal, die dag toe die dokter twee baie goeie gehalte embrio\u2019s terugplant\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009en toe die dag van die swangerskaptoets,\u201d s\u00ea Merwede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toe sy vir die eerste keer in sewe jaar daai twee strepies op die swangerskaptoets sien, was sy oorstelp van vreugde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het ontelbare swangerskaptoetse in die sewe jaar gedoen en nog nooit twee strepies ervaar nie. Ek het so lank daaroor gedroom en ons reaksies in my kop oor en oor gespeel. Maar dit was niks soos ek my voorgestel het nie; toe ek daai positiewe toets sien, was daar geen trane nie, net \u2019n uitbundige lag uit my maag. Dit het heeltemal onwerklik gevoel en ek het omtrent honderd keer seker gemaak dat ek wel \u2019n positief sien.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar die werklikheid het eers ingeskop toe die Van Tonders met die eerste skandering uitgevind het daar is meer as een baba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar was twee embrio\u2019s wat geheg het, \u2019n tweeling, wonderlik! Maar toe, op agt weke gaan ons vir nog \u2019n skandering en die dokter moet baie fyn kyk; eers laat weet hy die tweede baba is baie groter en toe dat daar drie is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSimon se gesig het spierwit geraak en die dokter was sprakeloos. Al wat hy kon s\u00ea, is \u2018I don\u2019t know how this happened\u2019<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Soos die tyd aangestap het, het die egpaar gewoond geraak aan die idee van \u2019n drieling en die opgewondenheid het gegroei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns het ook besef dat drie babas saam met baie finansi\u00eble uitgawes kom, maar ons weet en vertrou dat die Here voorsiening sal maak op die pad vorentoe,\u201d s\u00ea Simon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merwede het \u2019n goeie swangerskap ervaar met die gewone naarheid in die eerste trimester en moegheid in die tweede trimester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie derde semester was bietjie moeiliker. Hoe meer hulle gegroei het en die spasie beperk geraak het, so het my ongemak en pyn vermeerder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk kon die laaste rukkie van my swangerskap skaars eet en het amper niks geslaap nie. Die pyn in my ribbes en rug was baie erg.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Op dertig weke het haar dokter egter opgemerk dat daar tweeling-transfusie-sindroom by die identiese tweeling voorkom. Dit is wanneer tweelinge ongelyke hoeveelhede van die plasenta se bloedtoevoer deel, wat daartoe lei dat die twee fetusse teen verskillende tempo\u2019s groei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit kan baie gevaarlik wees, so ek het dadelik ingegaan vir \u2019n keisersnit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amiah het 1,4\u2009kg en die tweeling \u2013 Zelke 890\u2009g en Maden\u00e9 1,2\u2009kg geweeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hulle is tans in die neonatale waaksaal waar hulle goed aansterk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle is af van suurstof af en kry net borsmelk en ekstra-kilojoule-voeding. Hulle tel elke dag geleidelik gewig op. 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