Nursery staff stunned as NINE sets of twins enrol at the same time

NURSERY staff are seeing double after NINE sets of twins enrolled at the same time.

They were stunned when they initially realised three pairs would be joining.

But they got a greater shock when six more sets turned up.

Youngest in the line-up are five-month-old Lottie and Gracie Catterall — whose mum Steph Doxsey, 31, works at the nursery and is pictured above with her hands full. Then there is one-year-old Elizabeth and Olivia Handby and Penelope and Grace McMahon.

Tobias and Arlo McHugh, Sadie and Lottie Dean and Sia and Ava Vivaldi are all two.

Chloe and Emily Worrall, three, and four-year-old Rey and Joanie Layton and Archie and Ben Lowther complete the pairs.

Only one set is identical and each duo has been assigned to a different member of staff at Stockport Village Nursery in Stockport, Gtr Manchester.

Nursery manager Lyndsey Cross, 46, said: “We’ve always had a lot of twins but to have nine is something else.

“We must be the only nursery in the UK to have this many.

“We think it’s quite funny and it’s quite unusual. There must be something in the water.

“The other parents can’t believe it.”

Steph said: “I’ve never heard of so many twins at a nursery.

“When they’re all together, they just sit looking around at each other like they’re thinking, ‘Oh, you’ve got a twin too’.”

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