A woman who believed she had ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴇᴅ her quadruplets has revealed how she learned she was still pregnant with twins after her ʟᴀᴛᴇ grandfather ‘visited her in a dream.’
When Emma White, 38, from Liverpool, finally gave birth to her daughter Mollie Rose now is 13, after suffering 16 ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs over 20 years, she decided never to try again, to avoid further ʜᴇᴀʀᴛʙʀᴇᴀᴋ.
Until she met her current husband, Joe White, 41, a jewellery importer, in 2019. They wanted children. After ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs she got pregnancy again. At six weeks, she began ʙʟᴇᴇᴅing and shaking uncontrollably, but it was a confirmed ectopic pregnancy, when an unviable fertilised egg implants itself outside the womb in one of the fallopian tubes. After that Emma was for ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴄʏ sᴜʀɢᴇʀʏ, she was told she’d have to have one of her fallopian tubes ʀᴇᴍᴏᴠᴇᴅ. A blockage had been found in another of her fallopian tubes during surgery, which was cleared, so her pregnancy, was continuing.
Both Joe and Emma were delighted at the unexpected news of their naturally conceived quads and a private scan confirmed their four babies were doing well a week on. But at nine weeks, Emma began to ʙʟᴇᴇᴅ ᴘʀᴏFᴜsᴇʟʏ and was taken to hospital by ambulance, she felt herself ʟᴏsɪɴɢ her pregnancy. She stood up and ‘felt something fall out.’ Looking down, she found herself staring at what she describes as ‘clearly little babies.’ As she was still ʙʟᴇᴇᴅing, hospital staff were unable to perform an internal scan, but an external scan showed there were no signs of pregnancy.
Emma said: ‘I was told it looked like I’d passed the pregnancy. I knew they were right, as I’d seen the babies with my own eyes. I knew they’d gone.’
She had a poignant dream in which her ʟᴀᴛᴇ grandfather, David, appeared to her and told her the babies were still there.
Emma headed to hospital and insisted on being scanned. Emma explained she ʟᴀᴛᴇr dreamed she was still pregnant, revealing: ‘I woke up with a start. My grandad died when I was four and I never have those kinds of dreams. A miracle scan showed Emma was still pregnant with two babies.
Vanishing Twin Syndrome happens when one of a set of twins dies in the uterus and the embryos are normally then reabsorbed into the body. In Emma’s case, she had ʟᴏsᴛ one from each set of identical twins – leaving her with two non-identical twins – and had passed the embryos.
Astonished at the news and already 12 weeks pregnant, she headed home to tell a shell-shocked Joe. It still feels like a miracle even now the girls are three months old.
Describing the remainder of her pregnancy as ‘amazing’, she was induced at 37 weeks and delivered two healthy girls – 5lb 2oz Aurora Azalea and 5lb 11oz Ophelia Lili on 2 October 2021 at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
