n many respects, Antoinette and Wimpie Cowan are an oh-so-ordinary family. An assistant financial broker and operational manager living in Pretoria, the couple had two children: Matthew, born in 2007 and Niah, who followed in 2009. Then Covid happened in 2020, and when Antoinette started feeling unwell, and because she was already over 40, she didn’t realise at first that she could be pregnant. But not only was she pregnant, she was carrying twins – a fact that came as quite a shock. “From the very first visit to my gynaecologist, she warned me that it was a high-risk pregnancy, because of my age, although I’m very healthy, and also because the twins were monochorionic
