In september 1993 i found out that i was having a baby. I followed all the usual proceedures and went to the doctors, i was told by my midwife that i was alot futher on than i thought so she got my scan appointment brought foward. I went for my scan and to my amazement found out that my dates where right and that it was twins. As there are no twins in either myself or my husbands family. After the initial shock we where delighted. I went for a 20 week scan and was told that one of the twins had fluid on her brain and that they wanted to do an ammnio. We had it done and found out they had turners syndrome which is a genetic dissorder. At 26 weeks my ill twin sophie had died. They asked me if i wanted to continue the pregnancy and i decided to do so as the other twin shannon was fine. I spent every week going for a scan and all was fine. I ended up getting addmitted to hospital as i was unable to keep anything down. They continued to do there weekly scans on the 22nd of feb 1994  i went for my usual scan and was told that sophie had severe brain damage due to a blood clot traveling from sophie my ill twin through the placenta and into shannons brain. I had to decide at 34 weeks whether i wanted to have a termination. Which i chose to have. I have never had to make such a difficult decision in my life and hope that nobody ever has to make that decision. It took me a long time to get over the loss of sophie and shannon and the guilt i felt for the decision i made but i do not think i could of coped with seeing my daughter being born and then having to watch her die. I  have now been blessed with a son and a daughter.