Hands are full: Erin Phillips celebrates with her twins Blake and Brooklyn after the grand final triumph. Credit:Getty Images Partner in life Tracy Gahan, won her vote as MVP, Phillips said in accepting a prize on Monday that could yet be followed by an AFL best-and-fairest crown. The pair met about seven years ago as teammates for the Adelaide Lightning. Gahan, originally from Texas, was 46th pick in the 2002 American Women's National Basketball Association's draft, recruited by the New York Liberty, before joining Australia's Women's National Basketball League. It is a very good result when Phillips can get a patchwork of seven hours sleep into one night. Gahan carried and is breastfeeding Brooklyn and Blake. But no footy game is too big, in the mind of Phillips, to get in the way of family responsibilities. Not even the first AFLW grand final, which Phillips dominated despite an imperfect build up of broken sleep. "I always stay with them. I never sleep away from them," Phillips told Fairfax Media on Monday.

Women's mvp Erin Phillips Photo Supplied "Tracy is getting up at the moment between four to eight times a night. They don't synchronise, generally, because they're so different. "On grand final eve Brooklyn, our daughter, was up at 1am until 3am. Tracy had to tell her: the game's at 1pm! "I hear them, but at the moment I've only been getting up to help if they both wake up at the same time because it becomes so hard for Tracy to feed both. Our baby girl has reflux so she can't just be fed and put back down. We hold her for about 30 minutes afterwards and so many times I've fallen back to sleep with her on me or I wake up and see Tracy sleeping upright with Brooklyn hanging on." Not long after the twins arrived the quartet moved into Greg and Julie Phillips' home for the extra helping hands.