In December, we shine a light on the fight against twin to twin transfusion syndrome and forms of TTTS including TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP. International TTTS Awareness Month, including World TTTS Awareness Day December 7, World TAPS Day December 8th, World SIUGR Day December 9th and World TRAP Awareness Day December 10th was founded by The TTTS Foundation as an collaborative effort around the world to increase awareness and educate the public of the risks of being pregnant with monochorionic twins, triplets and higher multiples and directing them to The TTTS Foundation for immediate help and information about their pregnancies. We encourage you to look through our site to learn more! During December:
Once a year we sell our FIGHT shirts and hoodies in all sizes from infants to adults. Help us raise awareness and funds to FIGHT TTTS, TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP.
The TTTS Foundation has partnered with many beautiful landmarks across the United States and abroad to shine a light on the fight against TTTS, including TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP. We are so excited to watch the magnificant Niagara Falls turn blue and the Mighty Lights pause their their nightly show on the bridges connect Arkansas to Tennessee to light blue just for us. These are moments in time where the world says, ‘We hear you! This is for you and your babies!” Below is Here is a list of the landmarks turning blue-
Mayo Clinic Plummer Tower (December 6)
Aloha Tower in Hawaii (December 6)
Nascar Hall of Fame (December 7th and 8th)
Niagara Falls
Mighty Lights
Pfister Hotel
35W Bridge
Gateshead Millennium Bridge England Scotland Royal Border Bridge UK
CN Tower Canada
Calgary Tower Canada
Mighty Lights Big River Crossing Bridge and Hernando De Soto Bridge
Lowry Bridge
England Scotland Border Bridge UK
Enniskillen Castle and Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Ireland
The Wheel at ICON Park
Facebook Frames -TTTS Day December 7th
We have Facebook Frames also for World TTTS Awareness Day. Make a difference on December 7th and change your frame and tell your babies’ story.
Awareness Video Campaign
We will be continuing to post videos of families and doctors talking about TTTS and ask that you help share these to your personal pages to increase awareness.
The TTTS Foundation has helped numerous families showing signs of TAPS, twin anemia polycythemia sequence, after laser surgery especially. We are devoted to representing these families not only on December 7th World TTTS Awareness Day, but on December 8th World TAPS Day where we can dive in a bit deeper in the education of this condition. There is an urgent need to increase awareness of the use of the MCA (middle cerebral artery) doppler during routine ultrasounds to diagnose or rule out TAPS. The TTTS Foundation, therefor, also has created this day to be MCA Doppler Day.
Facebook Frames -TAPS Day December 8th
We have Facebook Frames also for World TAPS Awareness Day. Make a difference on December 8th and change your frame and tell your babies’ story. Click here to make this frame…
Awareness Video Campaign
We will be continuing to post videos of families and doctors talking about TAPS and ask that you help share these videos to your personal pages to increase awareness. Go to facebook.com/tttsfoundation
Facebook Frames-SIUGR Day December 9
We have Facebook Frames also for World SIUGR Awareness Day. Make a difference on December 9th and change your frame and tell your babies’ story. Click here to make this frame…
Awareness Video Campaign
We will be continuing to post videos of families and doctors talking about SIUGR and ask that you help share these videos to your personal pages to increase awareness. Go to facebook.com/tttsfoundationp
World TRAP Day on December 10th is part of The TTTS Foundation’s International TTTS Awareness Month. This is such a fragile experience to go through a pregnancy with this form of TTTS. With love and compassion, we want to tell the stories of families having gone through TRAP and increase awareness on this day as well as on World TTTS Day on December 7.
Facebook Frames- TRAP Day December 10
We have Facebook Frames also for World TRAP Day. Make a difference on December 10th and change your frame and tell your babies’ story. Click here to make this frame…
Awareness Video Campaign
We will be continuing to post videos of families and doctors talking about SIUGR and ask that you help share these videos to your personal pages to increase awareness. Go to facebook.com/tttsfoundation
The Official Awareness Ribbon is baby blue because we are fighting for the day after the storm, when the sky turns blue and all the babies will survive and be healthy and thrive like daisies flourishing in a field. We will not settle for less.
The Official TTTS, TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP Awareness Ribbon is baby blue as a symbol of hope for a cure, a promise for a cure and a promise kept as Mary is keeping her promise to her sons.
When you wear this ribbon, you are wearing the love for the babies over your heart and the hope and promise kept for a cure. It is all about the babies not the disease. The fight against TTTS, including TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP is ongoing and will not end. The fight, one day, will be won. We want peace. With God’s help and direction, we will get it.
To honor, love, and remember our babies, we wear baby blue over our hearts with two or three or more daisies representing how two or three babies or more come from one and are forever eternally together as one.
Two or more babies. One ribbon. One hope for a cure. One promise kept.
The TTTS, including TAPS, SIUGR, and TRAP logo is two daisies coming from one stem. This could be drawn with 3 daisies for triplets and more. The logo is symbolic to show identical twins and the babies holding hands through the petals. Daisy babies are any baby that has gone through TTTS, including TAPS, SIUGR and TRAP. We focus on the babies, not the disease. We FIGHT the disease, but will not wear it over our heart or give it any other color than the blue representing the day after the storm when all babies will live and thrive and be healthy.
