The mother of twin baby girls who were mauled by a fox as they slept described the attack as "like a living nightmare".
Pauline Koupparis found her nine-month-old daughters Lola and Isabella crying and covered in blood after the fox went into their upstairs bedroom and attacked them in their cots.
The twins were taken to the Royal London Hospital, in east London, but one of the girls was on Monday transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital, in central London, for further treatment.
Both were said to remain in a "serious but stable condition".
The twins were attacked as they slept in an upstairs bedroom at their home in Homerton, east London, at around 10pm on Saturday. Mrs Koupparis told radio station BBC London: "It's something I would never expect to happen to anybody, let alone happen to my beautiful girls."
The fox is thought to have crept in through a door on the ground floor which had been left open because of the hot weather while Mrs Koupparis and her husband Nick watched Britain's Got Talent on television. Mrs Koupparis went upstairs when she heard the the girls crying.
"I went into the room and I saw some blood on Isabella's cot," she said. "I thought she'd had a nosebleed. I put on the light and I saw a fox and it wasn't even scared of me, it just looked me straight in the eye."
Mrs Koupparis said both girls had undergone surgery.
She said Lola looked "dreadful" but was doing well after suffering a number of facial injuries and some puncture marks on her arm. Isabella suffered injuries to her arm and was receiving special care, she added.
The twins' four-year-old brother, Max, who was also sleeping upstairs, was not hurt.
