"Thank God for this miracle": the most premature twins celebrate their first birthday
"Our twins turn 1 today and received a Guinness World Record for being the world's most premature surviving twins. Thank God for this miracle!"
Shakina Rajendram was 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant when she gave birth to twins Adiah Laelynn and Adrial Luka Nadarajah in Canada. Doctors had told him they weren't viable and had a 0% chance of surviving, but they had just celebrated their first birthday.
"Our twins turn 1 today and received a Guinness World Record for being the world's most premature surviving twins. Thank God for this miracle!"
When they were born on March 4, 2022, Adiah weighed 330 grams, her brother Adrial, 420 grams. "When I gave birth, the babies were denied all life-saving measures at the hospital I was admitted to and nearly died," Shakina revealed to the Guinness Book of Records.
"We were told it would be a 'death sentence' for them and that they would have many disabilities, but we insisted that the babies should have a chance to live," she continues.
Kevin Nadarajah, the father of the twins remembers staying up all night praying for his children.
It was at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto that the babies were cared for in the neonatal resuscitation unit. They stayed 6 months in the hospital. “Babies came close to death so many times, and as people prayed, things miraculously changed,” Shakina says.
Adiah now weighs 6 kilos. "She's an extremely happy and social baby, and she smiles all day," Shakina says, "she's very talkative and has 'conversations' with us and her toys for hours."
His brother meanwhile had to return to hospital with infections and respiratory problems, but he returned home.
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