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Giving birth to a preemie is an emotional and nerve-wracking time for parents. It’s heartbreaking to see your frail tiny baby hooked up to so many tubes, and you can’t do anything to help them.

Just like any frightened preemie parent, celebrities can only wait in fear while they hope and pray that their little one will get stronger in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Here are showbiz mothers who went through a roller-coaster of emotions after giving birth to preterm babies. Several are also mothers of twins, who risk being born prematurely. Thank goodness, these amazing born-too-early kids are thriving now!