We would like to introduce some very special twins, Aaden and Noah. Read on to find out what special cause these little guys are helping to support in this picture.

Aaden

Noah

Aaden and Noah were Mono-amniotic/Mono-chorionic, so they were fighting very scary odds from conception. Mono-amniotic/Mono-chorionic twins happen in only one in 10,000 twin pregnancies.  There was a 50-60% chance that one or both boys would be still born. There was a high chance that one of the babies would be born with some sort of defect ranging from heart, lung, spinal, renal, or brain defect. Later the Doctors believed that the boys might be conjoined based on the ultrasound photos. The Doctor offered a selective termination in which they could terminate one of the babies in order to give the other a better chance of survival.  Their mother responded by simply saying, “no…that’s actually isn’t an option.” But the boys fight to live was far from over. More