TWINS DOUBLE
THEN PAIR OF GIRLS 24 MONTHS LATER
trying to keep up – doing one thing then the next then the next, whether it was nappies or bottles.
“But now I know they are fine, I know what I’m doing. So I feel like now with the girls, I appreciate them being babies more.”
Liam added: “In some ways it has been easier with four than two.
“With the boys, because we had just got together and we were so young, Jessica would get looks.
“Now we’ve got the boys, got a house and we’re settled. But having said that, when you have two toddlers and two newborns, it is a lot to get your head around.
“People do still stare, but I think we’ve got used to it.”
Jessica said the boys love being big brothers and have become very protective of their little sisters.
She said: “Bringing the girls home to the boys was a lovely moment.
“The boys are really good with them. The first couple of days it was a bit of a novelty, but we soon found our feet. The boys will run around and help, fetching nappies or things, and they are very protective and loving.
“In some ways, it has been easier. We had done it all before, we knew roughly how much it was going to cost and we were more prepared.”
She added: “The best thing I learned was to get in as much sleep as possible before they arrived.
“I started going to bed at about 7pm because I knew that I wasn’t going to get long lie-ins for a very long time.”
The chances of having a set of boy twins and then going on to have twin girls are incredibly slim.
But having one set of twins is relatively common, with a probability of 1.5 in 100.
In fact, the number of twins born has increased by nearly 50% since the early 1980s.
Multiple births – twins, triplets and quads – represent around 14 in every 1,000 births.
The odds of conceiving triplets is about 1 in 4,400.