Kailyn Lowry Shares First Photo of Newborn Twins, Details Their 'Scary' NICU Stay

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Kailyn Lowry is sharing the first photo of her newborn twins! During the latest episode of her Barely Famous podcast released on Friday (Jan.

26), the 31-year-old Teen Mom alum and boyfriend Elijah Scott debuted the first photo of the newborns and opened up about their “scary” stay in the NICU after their birth. Keep reading to find out more… Kailyn explained that the babies were born five weeks prematurely and she and Elijah had wait over 24 hours after she gave birth to hold them for the first time as they settled into the NICU. “They weren’t just there for a couple of days,” Kailyn said. “We were there for a couple of weeks, and we learned so much about the families that are there, and some of them are there for months and months.” Kailyn also talked about her frustrations about not getting clear answers from the doctors, saying, “I wanted to know if what I was seeing was normal.” While referring to her girl twin as Baby B, Kailyn said, “I had never seen a baby in my life not wake up to eat or show signs of hunger.

She would just sleep through feedings. She never had any feeding cues and when I tried to feed her, she wouldn’t take a bottle.” “And that was really difficult because I’m looking at him [Baby A], and I’m seeing he’s in the NICU for some of the same reasons, but also he’s taking a bottle, and he’s having no issue with that.

And then she was just sleeping all the time,” Kailyn said through tears. She added, “I cried a lot. I probably cried more with the NICU journey than the c-section stuff.” Later in the podcast, Kailyn said that she and Elijah were allowed to bring their baby boy home earlier than their baby girl, which then became a lot more stressful as they had to figure out their schedules of getting