Kristian had barely opened her eyes when she found her sister’s hand.
They were born on January 4, 2016, in Victoria, Australia, at just 29 weeks of gestation and weighing 900 grams each. They aren’t even identical—they’re fraternal twins with separate placentas—but they were already looking for each other in the ultrasounds. Their mother, Anthea Jackson-Rushford, recorded the exact moment when their fingers intertwined in their father Glen’s arms. “How is that possible? It’s incredible!”, she can be heard saying in the video. He replied: “It’s as if she were saying: I’ve got you”.
The clip received more than 2.5 million views. Three weeks later, from Monash Children’s Hospital, Anthea said that both babies had already surpassed one kilogram and were continuing to recover well. When she was told she might give birth prematurely, she searched online for photos of premature babies and didn’t find much hope. That’s why she decided to share her own.