Fast asleep in their cot, these twins should be at home in Sydney, being spoiled by grandparents, getting checkups at the baby clinic and keeping their dads up at all hours of the night.
Instead, they are stuck in Nepal, due to a sudden change in the country's surrogacy laws. And their parents don't know when, or even if, they will be able to bring them home.
For these twins' parents, Stephen and John*, it all happened so quickly. They always wanted to start a family, but couldn't do it legally at home in Sydney.
It's against the law to pay a woman to carry a child for another person in Australia, except in the Northern Territory. In Queensland, NSW and ACT it's also illegal to arrange commercial surrogacy overseas.
But in December 2014, the Nepalese cabinet legalised commercial surrogacy for foreign couples.
With tightening laws in popular surrogacy destinations like Thailand and India, Stephen and John joined dozens of other couples entering into legal surrogacy arrangements in the South Asian country.
But after a petition was lodged by concerned locals, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled to suspend surrogacy.
That was on August 25. Four days later, a boy and a girl were born to the couple. Problem was, the court had not specified what would happen to the newborn babies who were conceived when surrogacy was legal, or the dozens more in gestation who had not yet been born. Officials interpreted this as meaning the law against surrogacy would apply retrospectively.
"We were the first people to seek an exit visa from the country," the twins' father Stephen told BuzzFeed News. "We were told we cannot leave the country, and for a week we were the only ones caught up in this situation."
As well as around twenty Australian babies, there are families from Israel, Germany, Ireland, Britain, Germany and Serbia in the same position as them.
Stephen says the situation is especially frustrating because the twins are "fully-fledged, 100% Aussies." They have Australian citizenship and Australian passports. He's now had to leave his partner and children in Kathmandu so he can help them from Sydney. But as the saga drags into another week, he is reaching the point of despair.
"The situation is pretty dire," he said. "They are due for vaccination and I have no way of getting it to them. I can fly in baby powder and some medicine but not injections."
"Let's forget the whole surrogacy thing. The fact of the matter is they are Australian citizens and they deserve to come home."
The families stuck in Nepal say they feel abandoned by their own government.
Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop has written a letter to her counterpart, "seeking clarity" on the status of the surrogacy arrangements.
"We will continue to encourage the government of Nepal to put arrangements in place as soon as possible, allowing for the departure of Australian citizens," she said in a statement.
"I have written to Nepal’s recently appointed foreign minister asking that arrangements be put in place to facilitate the exit of children who have obtained Australian citizenship and passports.
"However, there are limits to what the Australian government can do to influence the laws of a foreign country."
It's a line the parents have heard too many times before. They're frustrated, angry, and they want Julie Bishop to step up the diplomatic efforts on their behalf.
"Let's forget the whole surrogacy thing. The fact of the matter is they are Australian citizens and they deserve to come home. They can't just sit here in silence. Nepal won't resolve it, but our government doesn't care about these citizens and they just refuse to help. Julie Bishop needs to call her counterpart and say 'this is not acceptable, kindly release them'," Stephen said.
The crisis comes at a time of great political upheaval for the country still recovering from a devastating earthquake that claimed nearly 9,000 lives six months ago. Just this month, Nepal got a new prime minister and a new Constitution, but instead of uniting the country, it has sparked protests, a fuel crisis, economic embargoes and diplomatic tensions with neighbouring India.
It's easy to see why the case of a handful of foreign babies isn't high on their priority list.
Describing his frustrations with the Nepalese bureaucracy, Stephen says he has barged into the offices of the ministers of health and population, the home office and immigration without any luck. He says they haven't even been told why their children can't leave the country.
"I've literally walked in and demanded a meeting with them, asking them why won't you let our babies go? And everyone I've met, right up to the most senior government officials have seen the babies and their hearts melt.
"They say, 'this is not humane, this is not the way we do things, but no single miserable bastard there will take charge and say 'this is not right' and 'this is how we are going to do it'.
"The entire border between India and Nepal is effectively closed so nothing is getting in. There's a new government, a new PM, the senior officials are no longer in power. All that coupled up together means all these little babies are forgotten about," he said.
Robert Reith is the president of Surrogacy Australia and has been in contact with some families stuck in Nepal.
"Often one of the partners is coming home to work. Having another father away from their baby is just an awful thing," he told BuzzFeed News.
Reith says the situation is further proof that the government needs to establish a framework for commercial surrogacy at home, but it's an issue that no government seems interested in tackling.
"It's a big, complicated political issue, but it needs attention and it's only going to get worse. The urge to start a family is very strong and if we don't legislate here it will just keep pushing people to third world countries," he said.
But for the Australians who have already entered into surrogacy, those are not the questions they find themselves asking right now.
"What will it take for Australia to act? Will it take a baby falling ill? Dying? This is what I'm asking myself. What will it take for the government to man up, take action and let us bring these children home?" Stephen said.
The families have been advised that the only option left to them is to hire a human rights lawyer at great expense and take a petition to the Supreme Court, but if that fails they will have exhausted all their options. Intervention from the government is their last hope.
"We can't just stay here forever. What do they expect us to do? Do they want us to just go back home, and leave our children in orphanages?" Stephen asks.
For this one Australian family left in limbo in Nepal, it's a thought that is simply too much to bear.
*Names have been changed.