In comparison to a sack of flour, Cadence Moore was born weighing only 1 lb 1 oz, whereas Jaxson was 1 lb 6 oz. The premature couple was delivered on September 23 of last year after only 23 weeks and 6 days of gestation. It was a miracle that the twins were conceived, and they were delivered inside the UK’s 24-week legal abortion limit. The twins’ parents, Jourdan and Matt Moore, adopted them as embryos from an estimated 650,000 fertilized eggs that were left over from IVF parents in the US.
“Finished families confront a choice: pay a storage charge to keep embryos frozen, destroy them, donate them to science, or get embryo rearing,” said Jourdan, 32, of Portland, Oregon. The kids wouldn’t be at home without us, so we really want to adopt a child and welcome them into our family. After getting married in 2005, housewife Jourdan and construction worker Matt, 32, knew they wanted to conceive a family. Sadly, Jourdan suffers from Crohn’s disease, a chronic intestinal inflammatory disorder. Jourdan’s illness was so severe that the only medication that helped her was methotrexate, which is also used to induce abortions and treat cancer and autoimmune illnesses.
Despite the fact that Jourdan couldn’t give birth to a full-term kid and despite waiting ten years without success, the couple was still determined to adopt. Their friend Hollie Mentesana offered to serve as a surrogate, and the couple viewed the embryo project as a gift from heaven. They adopted seven of them from a family of anonymous donors who also had one child in the same batch of embryos. Hollie, a mother of two, purchased two embryos on April 28 of last year. On May 20, the pair learnt they would soon become non-natural twin parents.
However, after 23 weeks of a healthy pregnancy, Hollie was admitted to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Portland on September 18 with a probable bladder infection. She learned the shocking information there. That she was 10 centimeters dilated and that the infants had a slim chance of surviving and would be delivered via caesarean surgery.
The doctor told me that babies are on the way and that they won’t be born at 23 weeks after looking at me, according to Jourdan. We had to go through a lot to get to that point, so I didn’t want to believe it. We must, however, mentally get ready for their demise as there is no other option. They had the option of receiving palliative treatment instead of resuscitation and life support, with specialists advising against it.
The survival rate on resuscitation is 21%,” explains Jourdan. The doctors wanted to let nature take its course, but we couldn’t give up on our miracle babies. Thankfully, we didn’t. And now we have two beautiful one-year- olds.It’s amazing.
