Fraternal twins born four months early will be home for Christmas after more than 100 days in a Brisbane hospital.
Aashay and Aalyia Goel barely survived birth. Aashay was born at just under 800 grams and Aalyia at just under 700.
Their mother, Dr Neha Goel, said it was “touch and go” for the pair. At one point they both had sepsis and the sister had meningitis.
“At times I wished I didn’t have a medical background,” Dr Goel, a practising GP, said.
“It would have made things a lot easier for me to process. I was overwhelmed with having my babies in hospital.”
Aashay isn’t out of the woods yet, he will need oxygen at home but Dr Goel says her son is doing much better.
“It’s been a long road but it’s so nice to have them here and together again,” she said.
The twins’ older sister, Siara, 3, had been asking when her new brother and sister would be coming home.
“I’ve always had to tell her they might be home after Christmas, so I didn’t get her hopes up,” Dr Goel said.
“She’ll be so happy to see her Christmas wish come true.”
While Dr Goel is lucky, eight other sets of twins will spend Christmas in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
Dr Luke Jardine, acting director of neonatology at Mater Mothers’ Hospital Brisbane, said it would be the first Christmas together ever for some new families.
“It can be an emotional and challenging time, along with a sense of hope their baby is being cared for in hospital,” Dr Jardine said.
One in five Queenslanders are born at Mater.
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