A Manchester mum who believes her identical twin girls could be the most premature surviving twins in the UK has spoken of her joy as her babies are finally able to come home.
Paris Martin, 30, gave birth to twins Rhayah and Rhemie in September last year at St Mary's hospital, Manchester. Weighing just 458 grams and 517 grams when they were born at just 22 weeks and 4 days, Paris says she was told by doctors to 'expect the worst' after Rhayah was born still in her sac.
But after nearly five months in hospital, doctors have given little Rhayah the green light to go home - with Rhemie 'not far behind' her sister. READ MORE: Nicola Bulley's dad says 'every day a struggle' three weeks on from when she went missing "I'm so excited," Paris told the Manchester Evening News. "But I do feel a bit nervous!
I think they are the youngest surviving identical twins in the UK." The twins were born four months before their due date - on January 19 - but Paris said she always believed her daughters would pull through against all the odds, even though staff told her they had 'never seen a birth like it'. "They had to be incubated straight away," she said. "But I remember holding them for the first time.
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