A mother has defied the odds by giving birth to a third set of twins.

Karen Rodger who is 41 and a dance lecturer along with her husband Colin, from Langbank in Renfrewshire were told that there was a 500,000-1 chance that her third pregnancy would be twins.  But then on 29th May 2013, the couple defied these extreme odds!

The new arrivals are girls, but are not identical and were delivered by caesarean section with Rowan arriving first weighing 5lbs 8oz and two minutes later Isla weighing 6lbs.

The couple already have four boys – 14-year-olds Lewis and Kyle and Finn and Jude who are both 12 .

She said: “I just could not believe it. It never crossed my mind that it would be twins again, I just thought that just doesn’t happen to people like me but I’m absolutely delighted.”

Mrs Rodger found out during a scan six weeks into the pregnancy and sent a text with the news to her husband.

“He thought I was joking and immediately wrote back to say ‘this is not funny’. I had to explain that it really was true,” she said.

“I still haven’t really taken it on board because I was convinced I was having two boys.”

The couple are looking to convert the loft of their house into bedrooms for their eldest twins so that the girls can have their own room.  Boyfriends had better watch out with all the males already in the house!!