An update...Please continue praying.

Hi all.  I'm writing this post on behalf on Katrina & Jonny.  Katrina is currently at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in recovery.  An amazing team of doctors and nurses took amazing care of her and did the surgery tonight.  They started the surgery around 10:20 and were finished around 10:45.  They worked very quickly and very efficiently.  There were 25 connections that were severed between the two twins.  This will hopefully allow both babies to get close to equal amounts of nutrients - so one baby is not getting more than another.  The ratio after the surgery was about 60% for one baby and 40% for the other.  For this kind of surgery, the quicker the doctors could do it the better and they did it in 3 minutes 18 seconds.  This surgery has only been performed 3000 times throughout the world, and 650 of those times was done at this hospital, by this team.  So, she is in good hands.  HOWEVER, Katrina and the babies are not out of the woods yet.  This was only the first hurdle.  With the surgery that Katrina underwent, the survival rate for the first baby is 90% and 60% for the second, however, because she is at risk of preterm labor, those percentages dramatically decrease.  Katrina is in great danger of going into preterm labor.  Basically her body has started to prepare for labor.  They were able to remove quite a bit of fluid, which is good for both babies and Katrina.  The goal is that the babies will wait until 30-32 weeks to come.  Because she is at such great risk of preterm labor at 20 weeks already, we need to be lifting up some serious prayers.  It's going to be a long road and this could mean some serious bed rest for Katrina.  Please please pray with us that both babies will now continue to grow at a healthy, equal rate and especially that they can hold labor off as long as possible.  Katrina will be here in Cincinnati for a while so they can keep an eye on her and the babes.    When we left she was in good spirits though and talking with us.  I will update you as often as I can and I'm sure she will whenever she feels up to it!  Please put Katrina and the family on your prayer lists and pray with us that labor will hold off for at least the next 10 weeks!