Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry Remembers Visiting Twin Babies in NICU 'Alone'

Teen Mom 2 alum Kailyn Lowry looks back on her newborn twins' NICU stay, now that they've been discharged.

“From Elijah [Scott] and never really got to be together in the NICU, filmed a lot of alone time,” Lowry, 31, wrote via Instagram on Friday, February 2, sharing a montage of moments from the NICU of the hospital.

In the clip, Lowry held her daughter while an on-screen caption explained how she spent her time.

“I always watched the monitors. This is the first time I put a bow on him,” we read in the caption. “Replace hospital coverage with home coverage. I soak it all up.

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Lowry further noted that her social media upload was a brief “glimpse” of her and her journey in Scott's NICU.

“Sending so much love to all the babies and their families in the NICU,” she wrote. “I know there are so many who have been through more than us…I see you.”

Lowry announced last month that she had welcomed her sixth and seventh children, her second and third with boyfriend Scott. (She also shares son Isaac, 14, with Joe Riverason Lincoln, 10, with Javi Marroquinsons Lux, 6, and Creed, 2, with Chris Lopez and son Rio, 14 months, with Scott.)

Lowry delivered her boy-girl twins via C-section five weeks before their due date.

“It was really scary because…we had experienced the NICU for a few days [with Rio] and he was big. He weighed 9 pounds, so it was different for us and we were able to go home shortly after,” Lowry recalled during an episode of his “Barely Famous” podcast last month. “But for the twins, we were five weeks early and there were two of them. I could only hold them the next day or 48 hours [later].”

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She continued: “We've been on the journey for weeks and we've learned a lot about the families that are there, and some of them have been there for months and months. What was frustrating for me was that when I finally spoke to the doctor, he kept saying, “This may be normal.” But we never said: “We see this often”. So whether it's normal or not… there's a huge difference between being normal and being common but completely abnormal.

Lowry said her daughter “showed no signs of hunger” and showed “no signs of eating.”

“It was really difficult because I watch [her brother]And [while] he’s in the NICU for some of the same reasons, but he also takes a bottle and he has no problem with that,” she said on her podcast.

Lowry's grandson was ultimately released before his twin sister.

“I think there's a big difference between the twins because she was alone in the NICU for so long, for so many weeks, and he was at home,” Lowry added. “She feels better alone… whereas we were at home with him and someone was always with him, holding him and all that.”