Not too small to live, let preterm babies thrive by all means possible

It would have been joy when Anne and John Simiyu were blessed with twin boys.

However, born five weeks to term, the infants’ survival was hanging on a thin thread. They faced another threat at home, where relatives believed that it was not only a bad omen to have twins, but to have them born before time, and as the firstborns; a verdict was quickly reached, one of them had to die.