“The moment I heard the doctors say my babies weren’t “viable” I felt my babies very much alive inside me, I couldn’t understand how some babies that poetry felt inside me couldn’t be ‘viable,'” he assured the ‘BBC’ Shakina Ranjedrammother of the babies who hold the record for the most premature babies.

Despite this, it seemed impossible for the gestation period to end. She had started to bleed and the doctor had told her that she would give birth very soon. Intended parents were informed that they would not be resuscitated because they would have been born very premature.

Ranjendram, 35, and Nadarajah, 37, had married and moved to the town of Ajax, Ontario, about 35 miles from Ontario, to start a family. They had already gotten pregnant once, but the pregnancy failed and ended after a few months.

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The risks of being born premature

Nadarajah assured that despite the disheartening medical report, both refused to accept that babies wouldn’t make it. For this reason, they searched for information on the Internet and found data that alarmed and encouraged them at the same time. The babies were only 21 weeks and five days pregnant.

To survive, they had to spend another day and a half in the bellyand Rajendram should go to a specialist hospital that could treat “micro-preemies”.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation may have respiratory and digestive problems and bleeding in the brain. The problems developed can last a lifetime.

When the couple’s babies were born, Adiah Laelynn Nadarajah was born weighing less than 340 grams and her brother, Adrial Luka Nadarajah, joined her 23 minutes later, weighing less than 425 grams, breaking a Guinness World Record, as they are the most premature babies to be born, according to the record.

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The miracle of the twins

Babies are born at just the right time to receive proactive care, resuscitation, nutrition and support of vital organsaccording to Mount Sinai Hospital.

“Without a doubt these are miracles”Nadarajah said, describing the first time she saw the twins in the neonatal intensive care unit and trying to get a picture of what they were going through in their fight for survival.

Dr Prakes Shah, chief pediatrician at Mount Sinai Hospital, told the BBC he was very honest with the couple about the challenges ahead for their twins, warning the struggle twins Adiah and Adrial had to go through with things as basic as breathing and eating.

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Success in the paired process

During this year and a half process, there were some big setbacks, especially in the first few weeks.

“In the first few days we were repeatedly asked about the possibility of removing the machines that were keeping them alive, we decided not to at that time and we joined in the prayer and we saw a change,” the parents said.

“When they left the hospital, it was surprising that they went home with no oxygen, no tube feeding” assured pediatrician Sha.

Today they are functional babies, who babble and turn from side to side, demonstrating the success of the process despite the unfavorable percentages that they would not survive and all that they developed.

Conscious, they undergo years of therapies and operations to improve the quality of life of the twins, according to the parents of the children.

The parents of these babies hope that the story inspires other families and clinicians to rethink the viability of living before 22 weeks gestationeven when considering long-term disability and survival rates, as was the case for twins.

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