Dec 10, 2009
Dialysis patient has twinsBy Judith Tan
DIALYSIS patient Nenamah Woosin, 44, went into labour at 24 weeks of her pregnancy and gave birth to twin girls - at home and with the help of 14-year-old son Amirulasyraf Asmawi.
She is the first woman on dialysis to give birth to twins in Singapore.
Madam Nenamah, a housewife with four teenaged children, said her twins 'were not planned' and she only found out that she was pregnant at four months 'because my period was irregular due to the dialysis'.
The girls, born 10 minutes apart and weighed 650 grammes and 490 grammes, are now at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Singapore General Hospital.
The twins' father, Mr Asmawi Asmaullah, 44, is a bus driver who earns $1,500 a month.
Apart from financial help from the National Kidney Foundation, the family is getting aid from the Thong Teck Sian Tong Lian Sin Sia temple, Barker Road Methodist Church and MUIS for the new additions.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_464895.html
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