Kansas parents, Ian and Brittani McIntire didn’t plan on having any more kids, much less, twins.
When they went in for their 6-week sonogram, they were shocked when the doctor said there are two heartbeats!
The parents went from being overjoyed and excited, to hearing some very devastating news. The doctor said that one of the babies had a hole in his heart and an abnormal brain. He wasn’t growing like he should be.
“He’s only weighing nine ounces and his sister is over two pounds,” the expecting mother said. “His only chance of survival would be heart surgery but they wouldn’t do heart surgery on because of his brain.”
Brittani began to feel like every doctor’s appointment was filled with more and more bad news, until doctors captured an incredible sight in a sonogram.
“We didn’t really see much, she said there’s his hand and there’s her hand and it looks like they’re holding hands,” says Brittani. The sonogram shows baby Mason on the left, with his tiny hand wrapped around the finger of his growing sister Madilyn.
This special moment showed their two children bonding before birth, and the McIntire’s say, ‘It is no coincidence.’
“It’s just nice with everything going on I know I’m holding him, I’m carrying him but I just want to be there for him and not knowing and she’s the only one who can actually be there and holding onto him through it and so it’s comforting to know that if he does pass he won’t be alone,” Brittani said.
This beautiful moment that has given family the strength to know that everything will be ok.
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