Premature twins remarkable progress

Twin boys who were born 15 weeks early and weighed under two pounds each have defied medical odds. George and Harrison Kent had several health problems including twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Within hours of being born in December last year, George was sent to hospital in Chertsey while Harrison went to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. At five days old George was transferred to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for an operation on his bowel.

In January, Harrison had a stent fitted to close a duct on his heart at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He briefly went back to Luton before joining his brother in Norwich.

In February, Harrison had an operation on his bowel and then went to Addenbrooke's to have his eyes lasered, a procedure George had there the following month. They both finally left the Norfolk and Norwich at the end of April once George had undergone another bowel operation and Harrision had recovered from Streptococcus B.

Doctors were worried they would not survive, but five months after their birth the two brothers are back home in Bocking in Essex. George and Harrison will have to have checks on their eyes and bowels in the future. Other than that, they seem to have made a full recovery and are doing well.