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On Friday's World Update, we discussed the concerns of doctors that too many couples having IVF end up with twins or triplets, putting strain on the mother at least and the family finances in some cases too.

I commented that our twins had been a delight so (perhaps unwisely) I implied I couldn't really see what the trouble was.

Of course I don't mean to belittle the hardship multiple births can cause - but it is a fact that watching twins grow up is one of the most exciting and rewarding human experiences.

I'm not going to put up pictures of ours, for the obvious reasons.

But I will tell you that they are as different as you could imagine - Henry is constantly on the go, worried he's not getting enough praise however much we give him, and never puts on weight however much he eats. And he can eat just about anything - how many nine year-old boys do you know who like spicy curry?

Alexandra, on the other hand, is happier sitting in front of the TV than anything else and the fact that we don't let her is something she plans to put right when in a decade or so she gets her own place with her own television. It'll be a big one.

Almost her first word was "cake!"

Luckily, she likes horses so gets plenty of exercise on her hyperactive pony and should avoid that modern epidemic, childhood obesity.

But she probably won't thank us for it, because we make her eat salad... yeugghh!

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