Emotional reunion for emergency workers who miraculously saved two premature twins born in the passenger’s seat of a car speeding down a busy highway under police escort
- Emma Wilkins had twin boys on NSW highway
- She have birth 14 weeks early in father’s car
- The twins had to be rescued at Inverell Hospital
Emergency workers had an emotional reunion with a miracle set of premature twins born during a panicked car trip on a rural highway.
Emma Wilkins took her twin boys Declan and Dominic back to Inverell Hospital to meet the police officers and the healthcare staff who helped save their lives five months ago.
The twins survived despite being born three months early, in the passenger seat as her dad Ian sped along the Gwydir Highway, in north-west New South Wales, led by local police escort.
When relieved healthcare workers at Inverell Hospital finally weighed the tiny babies after resuscitating, intubating and stabilising them, they tipped the scales at just 960 grams and 1.25 kilograms.
‘They were hanging on to our fingers, they were very strong little boys,’ Inverell nurse Kath Randall remembered as she was reunited with the now-healthy boys.
Nurse Kath Randall (pictured left) and policeman Darrell Monckton had an emotional reunion with Emma Wilkins’ miracle set of twins born a remarkable 14 weeks early during a panicked car trip on a rural highway
Emma Wilkins took her premature twin boys Declan and Dominic back to Inverell Hospital to meet the people who helped save their lives five months ago
Kath Randall of Inverell Hospital remembered how the ‘strong’ premature twins were ‘hanging on to our fingers’
A tearful Ms Wilkins thanked the hospital’s medical team and Senior Constable Darrell Monckton who were all part of the most dramatic of days.
Ms Wilkins, who already had two children, was due on Christmas Day but went into labour on September 21, just 26 weeks into her pregnancy.
She woke early with severe pain and having lost a set of twin girls earlier, she checked in with her parents, who live nearby.
It was decided the best thing was to make the 90 minute drive to Inverell for a check-up.
When Ms Wilkins and her dad set out from her home at Bingara, they were still 70 kilometres from the hospital.
Around halfway into their trip, Sr Const. Monckton, watched as Ian sped past, ‘leap frogging’ other cars and weaving through traffic.
He pulled the car over and Ms Wilkins’ dad ran up to him, explained the situation, then bolted back to his car.
‘By the time I could say anything he turned around and ran off back into the vehicle and started heading off again, so I put the lights and sirens on and went around and escorted them in,’ Sr Const. Monckton told the ABC.
Before the car reached Inverell Hospital, both babies were born within two minutes of each other.
Declan came first after a big contraction, then while Ms Wilkins was trying to get him to breathe and cry, Dominic followed.
Ms Wilkins is pictured with one of her newborn premature twins at Inverell Hospital last September
Ms Wilkins has lost twins previously and went she experienced stomach pains three months ahead of her due date last September she was taking no chances. Declan and Dominic were born on the way to that precautionary check up
When relieved healthcare workers at Inverell Hospital finally weighed them after resuscitating, intubating and stabilising them they tipped the scales at just 960 grams and 1.25 kilograms
On arrival at the hospital both boys had only faint heart beats and one had stopped breathing.
Few of the healthcare workers at Inverell Hospital expected them to survive the ordeal.
After the twins were stabilised, they were taken to Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, where they were given specialised 24 hour care for three months.
Trent, Ms Wilkins’ husband, a road worker away at a job, rushed to the hospital just in time to see the twins being flown to Sydney.
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