Scottish mother defies odds to have 3rd set of twins

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Jun 07 2013 | 6:40 PM IST
A Scottish mother has defied odds of 500,000 to one by giving birth to her third set of twins.
Karen Rodger, 41, and her husband Colin, 44, were "over the moon" to welcome Rowan and Isla into their family at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, British newspaper 'Metro' reported.
Rowan and Isla were her first girls after having two sets of boys.
The couple have four boys - 14-year-olds Lewis and Kyle and Finn and Jude who are both 12 - and were told of the unlikely odds that Karen's third pregnancy would be twins.
The chances of couple having three sets of twins was 1 in 500,000.
The girls, who are not identical, were delivered by caesarean section, the report said.
Karen said: "I just could not believe it. It never crossed my mind that it would be twins again."
She said she is "excited" by a family of six children.

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First Published: Jun 07 2013 | 6:40 PM IST

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