Fetal Laser Ablation Surgery Day 1.10.13

We had fetal laser ablation surgery the next day at around 5pm on 1.10.13. The surgery went well. There are so many things that could of happened that didn't. Breaking the bag of waters, extra blood from the lasering which could of made it so the doctors would have to stop the surgery due to not being able to see the connections that needed to be lasered. It has been said that no one should ever operate on a pregnant woman so the risks were high. We were told that Austin who had marginal cord insertion had high risks of not making it even if the surgery was successful because of where his cord was placed. Unfortunately, the cord insertions are random and we don't get to pick the perfect place. Baby B, Ari had a nice normal cord insertion. They lasered 6 connections overall and felt that they had got all of them. The odds of both babies surviving were 60% but they felt that it was lower in our case because of Austin's cord insertion. 

The day of the surgery, I was asked what I wanted to do if one of the baby's heart rate were to drop, would I do emergency c-section to save one when the other one might be okay staying in if the surgery was successful, would i want to try to leave one baby in there so he might have the chance to improve and possibly be delivered at a later date and not face all the issues with prematurity?  What a horrible decision to have to be faced with. How are you suppose to decide this? It pains me just thinking about it.  We were told because of how early the babies were that their survival rate if we decided to get them out would be in the teens because they were affected by  TTTS. Since then I have done research and the survival rate seems higher, it really depends on the child. At this point, we had decided that if one baby's heart rate drops, we would give the chance to the other baby and we would only deliver if both babies were at risk due to the risk of prematurity being that I was only 25+1 day and at this time I only had one round of steroid shots to get their lungs going. I needed another shot and 24 hours before the babies would have the full effect of the steroids.

More info on the surgery here. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdy2FmjsmM