(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – A Canadian brother and sister born at 22 weeks have been named by Guinness as the world’s most premature twins.
Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah were born at 126 days, overtaking the previous record of 125 days early set in 2018 by twins in the US state of Iowa.
If the children had been born even one hour earlier than 22 weeks, life-saving measured would not have been attempted by the hospital, Guinness says.
A full-term pregnancy is usually 40 weeks, making them 18 weeks premature.
Mum Shakina Rajendram said that when she began labour at just 21 weeks and five days, doctors told her that the babies “were not viable” and had “0% chance of survival”.
It was her second pregnancy, after she lost her first just a few months earlier in the same hospital near their home in Ontario.
