Shakina Rajendram and Kevin Nadarajah spoke with Fox News Digital about their journey after giving birth to premature twins born at 22 weeks, a world record.
World's most premature and lightest twins on record turned one in March. Their parents spoke with Fox News Digital about how their faith in God sustained them during their long and scary hospital stay.
A friend then sent him a social media post from the group"22 Matters," an advocacy group for parents of premature children. After seeing posts of children born at 21 and 22 weeks now thriving, the couple convinced their doctors to let them transfer to a hospital that would treat the babies if they were born a few days later at 22 weeks.
Both Adiah and Adrial weighed less than a pound each and were successfully resuscitated. Along the way, the children had several complications from brain bleeds, bowel perforations and lung disease from prematurity. Several near-death experiences terrified Shakina and Kevin and left their twins' medical team uneasy.
"But we saw what doctors maybe didn't see, which was our babies' fighting spirit. We saw that the babies' had a will to survive… They never gave up on themselves even though they had all these complications. They were pushing through," Shakina said."[It] reassured we as us parents had to fight for them [too].
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