I am sure people here know this already, but it seems relevant to the conversation…
The highest number of children born to one mother is 69. 1725 - 1765 the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
Modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina, mother of 64, of which only 55 of them are documented.
That man wouldn’t have been allowed within 50 feet of me after the first six or seven.
After firing that many out it’s a wonder she survived. Must’ve had udders and a chuff like a wizard’s sleeve after that ordeal.
Apparently that didnt’ stop her hubby from trying again each time.
Hrm. I’m probably thinking of the Texas one in 1998 then, but for some reason I thought the family was in Florida, probably because I was there visiting when I heard the news story.
No…I think there was so big scandal & murder involved. They moved to Florida & the mom was murdered. It was blamed on the dad…who was by then, back in Texas.
That was the one where the guy hired a hitman to do it, right? That’s not what I’m thinking of.
It was the late nineties or just turned 2000. I was in Florida for Christmas and I remember hearing the news about it while at a friends house. I remember it very well because her racist father was watching the tv (we were in the other room) and he shouted out “Oh dear God! The *insert horrid racial epithet here* are having them in litters now!!“
Charming, eh?
Anyway, because I was in Florida at the time, I assumed it was a local news story, but since I didn’t actuall see the broadcast, I assumed wrong. The dates would make it the 1998 Texas Octuplets one.
Good Grief, I don’t think I should have mentioned ‘litters’ but there you have it huh?
Anyway, Maegan, I cannot even imagine your mother’s emotional state AND physical state through the stillbirths, miscarriages and that many pregnancies. Surprisingly, only women are built to handle this kind of natural abuse and pain, but a limit to it is eventually, somehow reached.
I should have been more clear earlier about when sex should begin after childbirth has been accomplished AND about nursing as a form of birth control. All of my experiences took place in the mid-60s after only being here in the States for a year. I really had no ‘CLUE’ and apparently, neither did any of the other people around me (which were few as I was living out in the middle of no-where on a farm in Ohio). Truthfully, at the time I didn’t completely understand how I got pregnant in the first place and had never seen an infant before!
Anyway, Maegan, I cannot even imagine your mother’s emotional state AND physical state through the stillbirths, miscarriages and that many pregnancies. Surprisingly, only women are built to handle this kind of natural abuse and pain, but a limit to it is eventually, somehow reached.
My mom was told when she was a teen that she would never be able to have children at all. The fact that she had even been able to conceive thrilled her. I think the original diagnosis had something to do with fibroids…?? I don’t remember for sure.
My mom always wanted LOTS of children, but then more recently she said it’s probably best she only had 4. She wouldn’t have been able to handle the emotions that come during raising them. Though…if anyone asks me…I should have been an only child.
I never asked my mom about it…but I’d wondered if she’d ever heard of birth control. It would have been the 70s when she started conceiving by “accident”. Or it’s possible b/c she thought she couldn’t conceive she didn’t worry about it?? I know she doesn’t look too fondly on those days in her early military career, so I tend to ask questions about it only when she’s talking freely of it. Apparently mommy was quite the party girl. Booze, pot…“borrowing” military vehicles to carry illegal things across Europe.
LITTLE ROCK - An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter Thursday — their 17th child and seventh girl — and the pair say they’re still not ready to give it a rest.
Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.
“We’d love to have more,“ Michelle said, referring to baby girls. “We love the ruffles and lace.“
Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home in Tontitown. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are taught at home.
The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.
“We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him,“ said Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative. “We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well.“
Jennifer joins siblings: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.
Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.
“It actually went fast,“ she said. “I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes.“
The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable television’s Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.
Among the “fun facts” listed on Discovery Health’s Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life.
Oh, heck, if they enjoy them and can support them, what’s the problem? My grandfather was one of 12 brothers and sisters (not counting the ones who died young), and while they were a bit nutty (in a very sweet and funny way), they weren’t nutcases. There is way too much freelance critiquing of other people’s reproductive habits (I for example do not enjoy being asked why we don’t have kids) these days, or so it seems to me.
Having all the names beginning with “J” seems a bit silly to me, but hey, I’m not the one flipping through the baby-names book.
My labor with my daughter was four hours (almost to the minute!) from start to finish, which is pretty fast - especially for a first baby. I’ve been told that the next baby I have will come way quicker, and if I’m not planning on a home birth, to run to the hospital at the first twinge or I very well might not make it there in time
EDIT: the actual delivery, like when I was pushing, etc, took 19 minutes.
