Former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson is dealing with complications during her pregnancy with twins.
“We are having identical twins, which is so exciting,” Nelson, 33, said in a Wednesday, March 5, social media video, sitting alongside her boyfriend of three years, Zion Foster. “Unfortunately, there are complications that come with having identical twins. The types of twins we’re having are monochorionic diamniotic [MCDA] twins and with that, normally, most twins will have two placentas that they feed off of. When you have monochorionic diamniotic twins, they can lead to lots of different complications.”
MCDA babies, according to Nelson, are frequently at risk of one “taking all the nutrients” or both dying in utero.
“At the moment, I am currently pre-stage TTTS, which is twin-to-twin transfusion,” she said. “I’m being monitored very closely. I have to go be scanned twice a week. The current situation that we’re in at the moment is that every time I’ve gone it gets a little bit worse.”
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She added while struggling to hold back tears, “We are just hoping and praying for the best. We feel so blessed that we’ve been given twins. It’s just really sad, unfortunately, it does come with these complications we had no idea about.”
In addition to “hoping for the best,” Nelson and Foster, 26, are lucky to have frequent medical appointments.
“We’re really fortunate that I am [able] to be scanned twice a week and we get to check on the babies,” she said. “We just want to keep you guys updated and we’ll be letting you know … every time we go for a scan. We just gotta pray that everything’s going to be good.”
Nelson further wanted to “raise awareness” for other twin mothers in similar situations.
“We had no clue that happens with twins and we really want to raise awareness because there’s so many people that don’t know about this,” she stressed. “We felt it’s really important to share our journey with you guys.”
Nelson and Foster, who have been dating since January 2022, announced they were expecting twins earlier this year.
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“She’s eating for 3 now 👶👶,” Nelson captioned a January 12 Instagram photo of Foster cradling her baby bump.
While Nelson is excited to welcome her twins, she was initially hesitant about becoming a parent.
“I don’t want children. It’s just not in me,” she previously told Glamour UK in 2021. “I think as a woman, [motherhood is] either in you or it isn’t. You either have that maternal feeling or you don’t, and I’ve never had that feeling. I think women have to do what is right for them. My mum is my hero. She brought up four kids single-handed. To me, she is Wonder Woman, but I know it was hard. There’s never been a part of me that’s thought, ‘Oh, I’d really love a baby.’ I’ve been so in love, thought ‘this is the one for me,’ but [I’ve] still not wanted a baby.”
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