Watch the twins who weighed only 3lbs combined
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29-year-old Josie Kent gave birth to twins 12 weeks early by emergency C-section after suffering three miscarriages.
The twins weighed only 3lbs combined and the parents thought they wouldn’t survive.
The twin daughters Evie-May and Lilly-Beth remained in the hospital for three months after being born.
The twins are defying the odds as they turned one last month.
Josie said: “I had been pregnant three times before and we lost of all of them so it was terrifying that it could happen again.
I was having scans every two weeks as I was carrying twins which are classed as a high-risk pregnancy.”
“During the 27 weeks scan the doctors confirmed stage 3 TTTS – it only happens in identical twins where they share one placenta- it has to do with the amount of fluid that is shared between each baby.”
“Usually after 24 weeks you are considered in the ‘safe zone’ of TTTS but they found it during my 27 weeks scan- they called it a case of a ‘stuck twin’, all the fluid that was around my smallest one had disappeared and she had stopped growing.”
“Evie was the opposite, she had too much fluid around her so her body was working twice as hard to try to pump it all around and was putting a lot of pressure on her organs.
If they hadn’t had caught it when they did they would have died- they told me they needed to get them out within the next few days otherwise they wouldn’t survive.”
They decided to have the twins delivered at 28 weeks as there was a 70 percent chance of survival. They were both born via C-section which is really rare for twins.
“They were so tiny you could hold them in your palm.
I was looking at their tiny little feet and appreciating the wonder of how small they really were and I felt like I needed a comparison so when they grow into strong young babies I’ll always know just how small they were so I took a photo with my engagement ring.
I was really shocked at how small and frail they looked – I think I was expecting them to look like every other newborn but they were so tiny.”
The twins have fully recovered and turned one last month. Their mother says that she is so proud of how far they have come. They have made it!
She said: “Through a whole year of ups and downs with so much uncertainty and yet there they were smiling away at me as nothing had ever happened – they just don’t know how undeniably amazing they really are.”