Past tubes, tape and fragile skin, the parents only saw beating hearts. “And now you're giving them the hope of taking baby home, which is different than any other intensive care where things were fine. “I find that neonatal ones more exciting, challenging and rewarding, in the sense that these are the families who did not have of taking a baby home,” Shah told the Register. Babies have a long road ahead but they are thriving. Despite the injury that even medical tape left on the two tiny bodies, Shah says offering this hope to parents with preemies is something that drives his own work. It also helped having a doctor that was up for the challenge. “And every single time there was a critical moment where we were being asked to withdraw medical care from our babies, we prayed and, miraculously, something would improve, something would change drastically, where the doctors would come back to us and say that, ‘You know, we don’t know what it is, but your baby. Rescuscitaion was only the first of many hurdles, with the babies needing constant care being so underdeveloped, survival at times seemed unlikely.īut Shakina never gave up hope, living in a state of perpetual prayer, even when doctors were advising them to give up. Twins celebrating their first Valentine's Day. Previous titles for premature twins were held by the Ewoldt twins from Iowa, who were born at the gestational age of 22 weeks, 1 day. (Photo: Courtesy photos)īut he was proud to see these record-holding babies through all the challenges.Īccording to Guinness World Records, the pair are not only the most premature babies to be born, but also the lightest twins ever born. When I have to open the baby’s mouth and put a breathing pipe, the breathing pipe itself is two millimeters in size.To open and not cause any damage with these thin and fragile organs is challenging.” Finding tubes to fit through tiny mouths and not hurt vital organs proved challenging for Dr. And we didn’t know what to do at that point.”
“So it was just really overwhelming at that point.
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It was really a shock, at first, you know we didn’t know how to process that information, as we had, like I mentioned earlier, we lost another baby in the same location a few months before that,” Rajendram told the Register. “I was being told that we would be losing both babies that very same day. (Photo: Courtesy photos)Īnd she was in the same hospital where she had just lost a baby months before. Twin baby Adrial inside the NICU at Toronto's Mt.
Speaking to the mother Shakina Rajendram about her then-harrowing-now-hopeful story, she recounted going into labor at 21 weeks and 5 days during pregnancy, a gestational marker that the medical community deems “not viable.” Her heart shattered as she heard that her two darling babies would receive no rescuscitation, only to be delivered to die on her chest. The triumphant story of twin babies still thriving a year after they were born just minutes into what doctors deem “a viable state” is happy news indeed.
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