Twins Marli and Summa Crosbie smile for the camera just weeks after their birth. Picture: Jodie Andrews
TWICE the beauty and twice the cutie - these cherubs are just three
weeks old and all smiles already.
Showered with love from their parents and four siblings, identical twins
Marli and Summa Crosbie have plenty to be happy about. They're among the
growing number of Australia's twins, triplets and other multiple births, whose
ranks have swelled by almost 30 per cent in the past 20 years.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data released this week shows the number
of multiple births rose to almost 4500 last year, with one in three taking
place in NSW. The spike since the 1980s can be attributed partly to Aussie
couples embracing IVF - a procedure that increases the likelihood of twins. The
chances are much smaller for couples conceiving naturally but it's always a
possibility - as Marli and Summa's mum Melanie Yuile, 28, can attest. "It
was a total surprise because there are no twins on either side of the
family," she said yesterday. Central Coast photographer Jodie Andrews, who
captured the shot of the smiling sisters, said the image was "every
photographer's dream". "Both babies smiling - I just wanted to share
the joy with everyone," she said.
news.com.au
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