On Sunday, former “Bachelor” contestant Vienna Girardi revealed she lost her twin daughters amid complications midway through her pregnancy.
“This is the hardest thing I have ever had to write,” Girardi began on Facebook. “On Aug 3rd, I went in for an ultra sound bc the Perinatologist notice one of my twins had more fluids than the other which was the first sign of TTTS (Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome) this is when one twin takes more nutrients than the other.”
While Girardi, 31, explained it initially looked like there had been an improvement, her water broke later in the evening as a result of the amniotic sacs rupturing. She spent the next two days in the hospital trying to save her children.
“The doctors had warned me that if I did not go into labor and deliver the babies, I was taking the chance of risking my own life and causing an infection in my uterus but they could not survive at only 18 weeks,” Girardi shared. “They also said that there was a very slim chance under 5 percent that the babies could survive and the fluids in their amniotic sacs replenish themselves so as any mother would do I did everything to save them but their hearts stopped beating on day two which is also when I went into a septic shock with 104 fever.”
Girardi confirmed her “little angels went to Heaven” on August 5. She was also rushed into the OR [operating room] for emergency surgery, spending the next four days in the ICU [intensive care unit].
“I don’t know why this happened and I pray the Lord gives me strength to understand why he needed my little girls,” Girardi penned, adding she declined to donate her daughters to science.
“This was the hardest decision I have ever had to make in my life but I knew my little girls were in Heaven already and the pain I feel I would never want any mother to ever feel,” she continued. “RIP My Sweet Angels … Your mommy will never forget you and I loved you both with my entire heart.”
Girardi appeared on Season 14 of “The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love,” where she got engaged to star Jake Pavelka. The pair parted ways in June 2010.