Born so small that even medical tape was dangerous, mother and father leaned on fervent prayer and hope because ‘we could see their beating hearts.’
Just one hour after midnight on March 4, 2022, putting the babies at 22-weeks gestation, Adiah Laelynn Nadarajah came into this world, weighing just under 12 ounces. Brother Adrial Luka Nadarajah followed her 23 minutes later, weighing just under 15 ounces. (photo: Courtesy photos / Shakina Rajendram)
The triumphant story of twin babies still thriving a year after they were born just minutes into what doctors deem “a viable state” is happy news indeed.
Speaking to the mother Shakina Rajendram about her then-harrowing-now-hopeful story, she recounted going into labor at 21 weeks and 5 days during pregnancy, a gestational marker that the medical community deems “not viable.” Her heart shattered as she heard that her two darling babies would receive no rescuscitation, only to be delivered to die on her chest.
Twin baby Adrial inside the NICU at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. (Photo: Courtesy photos)
And she was in the same hospital where she had just lost a baby months before.
“I was being told that we would be losing both babies that very same day. It was really a shock, at first, you know; we didn’t know how to process that information, as we had, like I mentioned earlier, we lost another baby in the same location a few months before that,” Rajendram told the Register. “So it was just really overwhelming at that point. And we were shocked. We were deeply, deeply devastated. And we didn’t know what to do at that point.”
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