17/05/2026
***Medical***
Interesting last weekend on call…
The next photo is a more rare type of twin pregnancy called MCMA - where babies not only share the one placenta but the single amniotic sac as well, which means (just like in this photo) babies can entangle their cords around each other. Fortunately a great outcome here, despite having to deliver these two identical little girls at 31 weeks gestation, they are doing amazing!
A number of other little premature babies including a 28 week emergency vaginal breech birth and also an emergency caesarean of a little guy at 31 weeks gestation with a rare bradyarrhythmia (an abnormal slowing of the babies heart beat) that was causing fetal distress. Fortunately these two little boys are doing well also!
From the emergency gynaecological side, we had a 41yr old woman with a 7cm para-ovarian cyst present with a week of pain, have torted along with the fallopian tube.. both now necrotic and needing removal however fortunately the o***y was viable and conserved.
Why it’s important to have large, specialised tertiary level hospitals that can care for even the most premature of babies and complex emergency cases.
