There are many couples who have been struggling for years to conceive and have gone through an ordeal in the process. But we can all agree that the worst pain for these couples, who are struggling to have babies, is to learn that their little ones have slight chances of survival. This was also the case with the couple in this story.
Doctors, nurses and staff told the couple, Jade and Steve, that their babies wouldn’t survive but the new parents weren’t ready to give up and neither were their babies.
Jade and Steve Crane have been married for 14 years. They both want one thing: to become parents. But it has not been easy for them.
Unfortunately, they were unable to get pregnant naturally. They turned to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), which they have been trying for the past 11 years.
Finally, after waiting for so long, they were pregnant with twins!
They thought they would only have to deal with pregnancy pains and the trouble of raising twins.
However, life dealt them with a different problem.
At 22 weeks and 5 days, Jade gave birth prematurely.
And everyone around them said not to keep their hopes up because the twin babies may not make it. But they had been waiting for 14 years to become parents.
After they got married, they tried to get pregnant naturally for three years and stopped when Jade suffered an ectopic pregnancy.
That’s when they tried IVF.
But it hadn’t been easy as well. During their IVF journey, the couple suffered from three misсarriages. That’s why these twins were their wonder babies.
Jade and Steve were not ready to give up.
When Jade checked into the hospital, the doctors told her that she suffered another misсarriage. But Jade was sure she didn’t. She could still feel the babies moving.
And even when she delivered the babies, they still told her that because the babies were born too early, they would not make it.
They couldn’t even hear the babies cry.
But Jade and Steve didn’t believe them.
“I heard this little cry. Harry did the same when he was born an hour later. Their little cries sounded like a tiny kitten,” Jade said.
They may be hoping against hope but they still had hope.
Jade and Steve were going to fight to keep their babies alive.
“After they were born, I was Googling twins who survive at 22 weeks and trying to find any to give me hope,” Jade recalled. “I found a set of twins in America who had survived—they’re four now. I’ve connected with their mum on Instagram and she guided me through the first few days of being in the unit and what to ask for.”
The twin babies were born with lung problems and a serious gastrointestinal problem.
And the nurses warned them that these medical concerns could be fatal.
But the babies probably felt and were inspired by their parents’ desire to fight for them, so they fought for themselves, too.
They surprised everyone in their medical team and hospital by fighting to live day by day.
And five months after being born, the babies went home to be with their parents. It’s a medical miracle!
“They’ll go down in medical history – I’m pretty sure they’ll be having one of the wards named after them because everyone is just amazed by them!” Steve said.
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