Alex Cullen is overcome with emotion as he and wife speak about premature birth ...

Alex Cullen is overcome with emotion as he and wife speak about premature birth ...
Alex Cullen is overcome with emotion as he and wife speak about premature birth ...
Today newsreader Alex Cullen is overcome with emotion as he and wife Bonnie speak about their twins, now three, being born premature

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Newsreader Alex Cullen appeared live on the Today show on Wednesday with his wife and their twin daughters to celebrate the life-saving research being done to help families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units across Australia.

Alex, 40, became overcome with emotion at one point when he recalled the premature birth of daughters Audrey and Evie, now three, at 33 weeks and just how hard it was to watch them in the NICU.

As footage played of Alex and partner Bonnie doting over their newborns in hospital and holding them for the first time after they were in their humidity cribs, Alex said it's difficult to watch the footage back. 

Emotional: On Wednesday, newsreader Alex Cullen appeared overcome with emotion as he and wife Bonnie spoke about the premature birth of their twin girls Audrey and Evie, now three, live on Today. The family are pictured

Emotional: On Wednesday, newsreader Alex Cullen appeared overcome with emotion as he and wife Bonnie spoke about the premature birth of their twin girls Audrey and Evie, now three, live on Today. The family are pictured

'You get quite emotional - just seeing them in those humidity cribs an all that stuff on them [tubes and medical equipment], all the beeping machines, it is not what you expected,' Alex said. 

'(Finally) being able to do the kangaroo care, it is just a beautiful moment, it is such a special thing. It was just amazing,' Alex said about holding his girls for the first time.

Bonnie

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