A determined mom-to-be showed how strong she was when she was forced into full bedrest for 5 months after it was revealed that her cervix was thinning and her twins were in danger of arriving too early.
It’s undoubtedly been a long, emotional and probably even frightening experience, at times, for the parents of George and Harrison Kent. But it seems that their two babies, born at less than 4 pounds between them, are finally ready to go home and the fight they’ve endured to get to that point is nothing short of amazing.
If you saw Sierra and Sienna Bernal strolling down the street, you might realise they’re sisters. They’re both blond and pretty with a matching pair of smiles. You would probably be surprised, however, to find out that they’re twins. At 13-years-old, Sierra is 5ft 1” while Sienna is a petit 4ft.
For Rebecca Robinson and Dan Moritz every day they spend with their twins, 19 month old Evan and Ethan, is a precious one as the parents never know what tragedy the next day could bring.
Andrew Connell and his wife Vicky didn’t plan on having a home birth, but that was how it happened. Well, sort of. The birth actually happened in a caravan that the family was vacationing in at the Seton Sands caravan park in Longniddry, East Lothian
A UK mom in her twentieth week of pregnancy was given the devastating news that her twins would not survive because her placenta was leaking and one of her babies had a heart problem. Preparing for the inevitable miscarriage, both the parents and the doctors were surprised when one twin positioned herself in such a way in the womb that it helped save her sister’s life and the pregnancy.
A baby girl, who is being called the world’s most premature baby after she was born at just 21 weeks 5 days, is now strong enough to leave the hospital.
New Years Eve was an exciting night for Christy and Marlin Alston when they prematurely welcomed their twins at Duke Hospital within two minutes of each other – but in two different years.
Six months into her pregnancy Fortunate Valkira was told by the nurses at the Hospital in Randjiesfontein, Midrand that she was larger than normal because her unborn baby was a large boy.
A set of 23 week twins are showing the world and UK lawmakers that survival is possible before the viability threshold of 24 weeks gestation.
Kirsty Fowler is a special kind of mother to her sons, Freddie and Jack. So special that she’s actually one of a kind in the UK. Fowler has dwarfism and successfully carried twins, a first in the UK.
An amazing story in China! A set of twins who arrived an unbelievable 18 weeks early are set to be released from a hospital in central Taiwan’s Taichung City where they were born five months ago.
For Maureen McCarthy there was nothing extraordinary about the new twin preemies admitted in her ward as she had seen many such cases every day of her life as a nurse. But as days went by, the routine job turned into first an instinctive call to care for them and later a crusade to adopt the fragile little babies even though she was single and working.
