AND then there were ... six beautiful little girls.
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The Carins family is packed to the rafters with girls after the arrival of triplet sisters on Monday.
Danielle and Byron Carins, of Winnaleah, now have six girls under six - Holly, Daisy and Lily are triplet sisters for Alysha, 5, Rose, 4, and Charlotte, 20 months.
The baby doll perfect bundles of pink wriggling toes and tiny pink fingers were naturally conceived.
The family, which doubled overnight after the caesarean birth of the tiny girls, attributed the healthy babies to good nutrition and plenty of rest.
Naturally conceived triplets account for one birth in 8000.
Born at 37 weeks, the babies weigh five pounds nine ounces, (Holly), four pounds 15 ounces (Daisy) and, five pounds 10 ounces (Lily).
Danielle Carins, one of 10 children, and Mr Carins, one of five sons, say they are delighted to have such healthy babies.
The girls spent no time in the Queen Victoria Maternity Unit's special care nursery.
Their composed mother was philosophical about having six daughters.
"You have the children you are meant to have," Mrs Carins said.
The couple, who met during home-schooling when they were 14, say they were teenage sweethearts.
Mrs Carins discovered she was having twins at 26 weeks' gestation, and by 28 weeks an ultrasound confirmed a third baby. It was then that the couple chose to learn the sex of the babies.
"We decided to find out the babies' gender because it was a lot of babies to get ready for and we needed to know what we had to deal with," Mrs Carins said.
Identical and fraternal twins were in the family, although there was no clear genetic link, she said.
Future tests will identify the fraternal or identical nature of the triplets.
No, Mrs Carins said, the couple won't be trying for a son.
"We just want to be able to look after the six we have got really well," she said. "We want to be involved with their lives.
"For the first months we will have six under six years. The good thing about having all girls is that they all might be doing similar activities and we should be able to co-ordinate."