 |  | | | | Tuesday 11 September 2001 | | |
When Michaela Poacher was born last February she weighed 2lb 10oz. Her twin sister Megan was a pound lighter. The pair spent the first few weeks of their life in different specialist intensive care units forty miles apart.
They suffer what's known as Twin to Twin Transfusion syndrome. Up to 10% of identical twins or twins which share the same placenta are affected by some degree of Twin to Twin Transfusion syndrome.
If correctly diagnosed 60% of these babies can be saved. But because not much is known about it, it frequently goes undiagnosed, often with fatal consequences.
Gaynor Morgan meets Michaela and Megan, and their parents, Cathy and Neil, at their home at Aberkenfig, near Bridgend, in South Wales.
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