Premature twins separated at different Boston hospitals as parents plead to reunite them before nurses strike

A pair of premature twin girls are fighting for their lives at separate Boston hospitals — while their parents race against the clock to reunite them amid a looming nurses’ strike.Mike and Kelsey Kennedy have been spread-paper thin since their girls, Juliette and Kendall, unexpectedly came into the world at just 24 weeks’ gestation on Aug.31 — then became separated as they each faced serious health issues. Little Juliette underwent heart surgery upstairs in the NICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, while her sister — younger by just one minute — was whisked off to Boston Children’s Hospital, where she received treatment for a severe case of spina bifida, a condition that occurs when the fetal spine doesn’t fully close during pregnancy. Almost six weeks later, both girls remain in stable but critical condition at the respective hospitals, as their parents frantically try to be at both of their bedsides as much as possible — all while raising a 3-year-old and an 11-month-old they already have at home. “We feel guilty as it is every time we leave the hospital and can’t bring our children home with us and have them be with their siblings.

But at least we had the security of knowing they are in good hands,” Mike, 30, told The Post. “It was obviously hard for my wife to go back and forth, for me to go back and forth, but we were comfortable with that, given the nurses we had,” he said.Now, by contrast, the already hemorrhaging couple is petrified that some 4,000 Brigham nurses will walk off the job during an indefinite strike set to begin next week, unless union and hospital officials can come to an agreement before then. “Our big concern is losing the nurses and that’s what makes it so difficult – the stress of not having [the twins] together and also not knowing what type of care that they’re going to be receiving,” said Mike, who has also been trying to juggle his job as a residential builder throughout the nerve-wracking ...