Miracle Twins Born Four Months Premature

Name: Miracle Twins Born Four Months Premature
Uploaded: 2023-12-11T12:34:34+00:00
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: The most premature twins are Adiah Laelynn and Adrial Luka Nadarajah (both Canada), who were born 126 days early, at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, on 4 March 2022. The twins' original due date was 8 July 2022 and they were born at a gestational age of 22 weeks, or 154 days. Adiah weighed 330 grams (11.6 oz) and Adrial weighed 420 grams (14.8 oz) at the time of birth.

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I'm Shakira and I'm Kevin and we're the parents of a DNA girl who was born 22 weeks ago
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We were born 126 weeks earlier. I remember going into my first ultrasound before I found out I was pregnant and I was
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actually nervous because at the previous ultrasound that I'd seen I just found out
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that it was going to be scary if they saw a girl pregnant anyway
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So I was actually nervous and I remember the ultrasound technician, he put a gel on my
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stomach and he started looking at his screen. So I asked him, is there a heartbeat, is there a heartbeat
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He looked at me and he kept teasing himself and he said there are two heartbeats
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No, I was just speechless and yeah, this is a girl pregnant
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When I went into labor at 21 weeks and five days, I woke up having extreme pain and experiencing
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contractions and I was bleeding and I just had this feeling that this was not right
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something was wrong. The first thought in my mind is, are we going to lose this pregnancy
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Shakira was admitted and examined in about a space of three minutes I guess
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The initial reaction was, I'm sorry for your loss, you're going to lose your babies
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They may come out any minute now and there's no possibility that they're going to survive
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We were in shock. The first thought that went through my mind was, no, not again, because three months before
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that we had just lost a baby in that very same hospital. They also advised us that there was nothing they could do and that the banks of the hospital
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could offer a contract term meaning they would, once the babies were born, they would take
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the babies and put them on my chest in seven steps and they would sit in which they then die
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A few hours later an ultrasound was done and the ultrasound showed that the babies were
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still very much alive. They still had very strong heartbeat and they were not in distress and so we were begging
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the doctor to do something to save the babies and we found an organization called 20 Matters
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The goal of the organization is to raise awareness about the viability of turning one-year babies
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into two-year babies. She was messaging me back and forth giving me tips and questions
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I could ask the doctors, ask for magnesium sulfate, ask for steroids that would help
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the babies' lungs before they're born. The magnesium is for their brain and neural development
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We found out from that organization that Mount Zion Hospital in Toronto would resuscitate
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the babies if they were born in 22 weeks. We felt really distressed
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We felt helpless. We didn't know what else we could do and thankfully even though I'm working late on having contractions
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every few minutes at that point, the babies were not born. I got to 21 weeks and six days and now Mount Zion has accepted the transfer request
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At Mount Zion Hospital, they informed us that if the babies were born that day, it would be death sentence
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for the babies if they were born before 22 because they did not have the capacity to resuscitate
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babies before 22 weeks. I missed all that scenario of being told that the chance of survival is pretty much 0%
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The chance of disability and that to significant disability is really high
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We were just clinging to our hope and faith, trusting in God
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I was experiencing a lot of bleeding and I didn't know if I could hold the babies until
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they got to the 22 week and heal mark but I knew that I had to hold the babies in because
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if I didn't, they wouldn't be alive. Half an hour before midnight, I felt like my water broke and I thought that this was
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it because I was unable to keep the babies in. I thought that they were going to die and it was going to be because of me
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I woke them up and I said, I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry, I can't do this anymore, I can't do this anymore
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I think the babies are going to arrive now. And I was just in tears
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I felt so distraught that I wasn't able to hold the babies for just another half an hour
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But miraculously, they said that the water had not broken yet. I fell asleep and then I woke up again 15 minutes after midnight, 15 minutes after they
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crossed the 22 week and heal day mark. My water actually broke for a really good time
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Our daughter, Adia, arrived first. She arrived at 1.22 a.m. and our son
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She arrived at 1.45 p.m. Adia weighing in 330 grams and Israel weighing in 420
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I think the first concern that was highlighted to us was the fact that both babies had brain bleeds
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And so this is bleeding in the brain and had different levels of severity ranging from
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grade one all the way to grade four being very severe. And Adia, if you were told, had a grade three brain bleed and Israel had a grade two brain bleed
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What did you see? So yeah, Israel has had a difficult course in general compared to Adia
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They discovered blood in Israel's stool and it was suspected that he had something called neck
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He would end up spending seven weeks in the kids' needs here
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He had pulmonary hypertension. His lung disease had worsened. Yeah, his kidneys were not doing good and he also had sepsis
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We were so afraid that we were going to lose him. So Adia stayed in the hospital for close to six months
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Adia was discharged first, so she was discharged after 161 days. And Israel was discharged a week later after 167 days
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The first few days after we had the baby's home, it was scary at first because Adia was
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oxygen monitored for the first time. You wouldn't know if his heart rate was going
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He also had a long list of meds that needed to be administered
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So waking up at night, being with strangers, this could be difficult
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