Twin babies heading home after months in the hospital

MIAMI (WSVN) -- They are the smallest miracles a local hospital has ever seen.

A family is truly giving thanks this Thanksgiving, as the twin sisters, Tanisi and Ryka, are on their way home after seven months of neonatal care at Jackson Memorial Hospital just in time for the holiday.

After months of hardships, a couple will finally be able to enjoy their twin blessing at home. "Today when we look and when we see them smiling, it seems that we forget everything we've been through because it was just for them, and it was worth it for what it would have been," said mother Jennipher Adi.

The pair made history as the smallest combined weight twins to ever be discharged from Holtz Children's Hospital. "They went through almost every neonatal problem that we face," said Neonatologist Dr. Ilene Sosenko, M.D.

The girls were born in April, 16 weeks early. One weighed in at one pound, the other just one ounce bigger, and they have faced everything in their young lives-- from heart problems, infections, development complications, even pneumonia. "Now, today, both girls will be home together, and their prognosis is excellent," said Sosenko at a press conference. "We expect that they'll grow and develop and be happy and healthy and be extremely productive young women, perhaps scientists, like both of their parents."

Their parents said they couldn't have picked better names for the girls. Ryka means a baby born of prayers, while Tanisi is a religious goddess believed to be a fighter of evil. "Now that it's here, you can see tears in my eyes, the tears of happiness to be all together," said father Nikhil Adi about finally reaching the day he could have his baby girls home with the family.

"We just thank God for holding their hands, forever," added their mother.

And while the doctors have grown attached to these tiny miracles, they said they could not have been born to better parents. "I just want to say that these two babies, in addition to being special babies, have really special parents who really dealt with a lot of difficulties," said Sosenko, "with a lot of bravery, with a lot of courage and a lot of optimism, and their dream came true, and the rest of their life starts today."

The twins will be going home on monitors for the time being, but doctors said they are expected to grow up to be perfectly healthy.

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