![]() ![]() ![]() “They were positive, and I felt well taken care of.” The moment I checked in, I knew I was going to have a baby at the end of this,” Kanemoto says. “They never made me feel like it wasn’t possible. With a one-year-old daughter at home, a two-month inpatient stay ahead of her and a high-risk pregnancy, Kanemoto says she her pregnancy had been characterized by heartache, but at Children’s Colorado, that quickly melted away. That, doctors said, would give Kai much-needed time to grow big enough for his surgery and allow Klay to develop too. With more hope and confidence than ever before, Kanemoto entered inpatient care at the Colorado Fetal Care Center 25 weeks into her pregnancy and planned to have the babies at 34 weeks. ![]() And the Kanemotos finally heard some good news: The heart surgery Kai required had an extremely promising success rate and the team was well equipped to handle mono-mono twins too. “We went to the Center, and from then on I had hope.” Preparing for birthĪfter an initial ultrasound, the team at the Colorado Fetal Care Center and Children’s Colorado Heart Institute came together to develop a care plan for delivery. “Within two or three hours, someone from Children’s Colorado called me and said, ‘We’d like to see you next week for an ultrasound,” Kanemoto says. They referred the family to Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Colorado Fetal Care Center for expert advice on such a complicated case. Doctors could finally see Kai’s anatomy and learned he had a dangerous heart condition that would require open heart surgery very soon after birth. “It was just like, ‘What else could possibly happen?’”Īt their 20-week appointment, the Kanemotos took another blow. We would just drown in our sorrow,” Kanemoto recalls. Two weeks later, the couple, who lives in Longmont, Colorado and were seeing a doctor in Boulder at the time, came back to check the twins’ development and learned that one of the babies, Kai, had a suspected health issue.Īnother two weeks later, doctors discovered that Klay, the other twin, was dealing with a selective intrauterine growth restriction and was significantly smaller than his brother. Initially, doctors thought the twins might be conjoined, but they soon learned that instead, Klay and Kai were considered mono-mono twins, meaning that they shared just one amniotic sac with no barrier between them. First, Kanemoto and her husband Scott learned the pregnancy was high risk. When Beth Kanemoto was pregnant with identical twins Kai and Klay, it felt like every two weeks she received more bad news. ![]()
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