World’s Most Premature Twins Defy Doctors’ Zero Percent Chance Prognosis to Celebrate Their First Birthday

World’s Most Premature Twins Defy Doctors’ Zero Percent Chance Prognosis to Celebrate Their First Birthday
(Courtesy of Shakina Rajendram); Inset: Courtesy of Guinness World Records
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Premature twin babies born at 22 weeks, who were given a zero percent chance of survival, have overcome impossible odds and proved their doctors wrong. At the age of one, the toddlers are thriving and also hold the Guinness World Record title of “world’s most premature twins.”

When mom Shakina Rajendram of Ontario, Canada went into labor at 21 weeks and five days, she and her husband, Kevin Nadarajah, were devastated. Doctors said that their babies were “not viable.”