‘I'm So Lucky To Have My Twins!'

Tania Zaetta couldn’t ask for a better present for her first Mother’s Day

Looking into the “huge eyes” of her tiny twins, Alby and Kenzie, just hours after they arrived three-and-a-half weeks prematurely, Tania Zaetta was overcome with love for the son and daughter she thought she may never have.

“I’m now one of those women who say it’s a life-changing moment, because it is, and seeing my babies in the special care nursery with cords and wires attached to them and tubes down their noses... I’ve never felt so helpless,” she says of their arrival in September last year.

Tania’s final months of pregnancy were fraught with problems and she spent three weeks in hospital with pre-eclampsia, barely able to walk or breathe easily, and had to give birth early to protect herself and the twins.

“For the first few days I was the only one able to pick them up, and then only once a day,” the 49-year-old says. “I could also put my hand in the incubators and stroke them. It’s just this feeling of such intense love. Life changed forever for the better.”