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DALLAS - On the eve of the funeral for her twin boys, a young Dallas mother talked about about the circumstances that led to their deaths.

Kanisha Turner's pictures of her twin sons show them tenderly posed after they died, but seeing them makes her question the events that led to their premature delivery.

"My baby boys," she said, looking at the photos of little Dontay and Montay, who died just two hours after being born early Tuesday morning on October 2.

Dallas police are waiting for autopsy results to determine charges against their father and are still in the midst of an investigation into their deaths.

Turner went into labor just hours after falling during a domestic scuffle with her boyfriend, Antwoine Mitchell. However, Mitchell said Turner had been having problems for weeks prior to their fight, which is also what Turner herself told a doctor at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. She said she had been in pain and leaking what she thought was amniotic fluid for days.

"[The doctor] said it's coming from an infection that I had, and she was going to send me home with more antibiotics," Turner said.

She was prescribed antibiotics and pain medication at least twice in September.

The day Turner showed up at the hospital, doctors at Baylor discovered a very rare and dangerous condition called Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. The babies shared a blood supply, and it's a condition that often goes undiagnosed, according to experts.

Doctors recommended she go to a hospital in Houston for an emergency laser procedure that's done only a few places in the country.

Baylor discharged her as the hospital worked out travel details.

But Turner returned a few hours later in agony.

"I was hurting," she said. "I started gushing out blood and my back started hurting real bad; and my mom said, 'Yeah, you're in labor.'"

Not long afterwards, she gave birth to twin boys four months early. One weighed 15 ounces and the other baby weight one pound 2 ounces.

"It was very hard because seeing them like that and nobody helped," said grandmother Teresa Turner. "I was really hurt and emotional about that."

Teresa Turner said she held her grandsons in their final moments of life.

Baylor declined an on-camera interview with News 8, but said the hospital is "in the process of reviewing the care provided to Ms. Turner."

Experts said that by the time the twins were diagnosed with the rare condition, it was too late to save them.

Turner said she hopes it's not too late to save their father who could now face charges related to Dontay and Montay's deaths.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER STATEMENT

September 28, 2007: In keeping with our mission to provide quality and compassionate care, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas values every single patient that comes to us for medical care. Each life is precious to us, and we extend our sincerest sympathies and prayers to Ms. Turner and her family.

For patient privacy reasons and because we are still in the process of reviewing the care provided to Ms. Turner, we feel that it would not be appropriate at this time to comment any further on this case.