Double Blessings!

For a long time we had been routinely seeing twin pregnancies. It is always a lot of fun telling women that there is a "pair in there", but it had been a while since we had seen one. My colleagues and I were only just commenting that we hoped we hadn't missed diagnosing any twins when this mama came in. She was hoping we would tell her she was having a baby girl as she already had 3 sons. We were suspicious about palpating her abdomen and then we quickly found when we put the ultrasound on her belly that there were not 1 but 2 babies in there. As we were telling her this she says - "but am i having a girl?" We were measuring the first twin, and this babe was not shy in showing us he is a boy. We told her this and she said - "can you see the other one?" We had fun trying and our suspicions were that it was a girl, but i guess we will wait to find out!

Monica - EMA Lead Midwife & SPM Maternal Health Project Coordinator

Monica Parker is from New South Wales, Australia and is a registered nurse and midwife. She has been living and working in Thailand and Myanmar since 2009 and is the Co-ordinator of SPM’s Maternal Health Program. She is seconded to work with Earth Mission Asia’s Physician Assistant program based in Kyaukkyi, Myanmar. It is Monica’s dream to train a strong core of professional midwives to serve the Karen people in the remote areas of Karen State. She also wants to help set professional standards in maternal health care. This includes identification and appropriate management of high-risk pregnancy and birth.

Mon is based in Kayaukkyi, Myanmar. She is married to Saw Eh Hsu and, they have two precious twin boys.