{"id":229521,"date":"2020-08-24T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229521"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:00:15","slug":"micropreemie-twins-overcome-obstacles-miracles-still-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/micropreemie-twins-overcome-obstacles-miracles-still-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Micropreemie twins overcome the obstacles: ‘Miracles still happen’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Micro-preemie identical twins Vivienne and Margot were born prematurely at just 22 weeks and five days, and 23 weeks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown in March. But with just a 20-30% chance of survival, the girls were able to beat each of the odds stacked against them and are a total joy to their grateful parents.<\/p>\n

“You were born four and half months premature at the start of a global pandemic. I pleaded with God to let you live, yet I prepared my heart for you to die,” their mother Laura\u00a0wrote to the girls in a blog post<\/a>. “Only one in seven babies born as early as you were make it\u2014the odds are even worse for twins. Only one in four hospitals in the U.S. would even attempt to save you.\u00a0At just one little pound and four ounces each, most people have never seen one baby as tiny as you, and we got to see two. We got to watch you develop outside the womb\u2014we watched your little eyes come unfused, and your skin change. We watched your ears finish forming and your nails harden.\u00a0We watched you fight, and I sang to you about how I just wanted to know you better.”<\/p>\n

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Miracles still happen. These two are my water-into-wine-feeding-of-the-five-thousand-back-from-the-dead miracles. Born 17 weeks early, we didn\u2019t think we would get 85 seconds with them, let alone 85 days. But here we are. Swipe to see where we started.<\/a><\/p>\n

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