You know Acci, you’re right so, now I’m thinking, wouldn’t it be easier to just have a litter ONE time and be done with it? What is the number of babies born to one woman at one time anyway? I mean, even with fertility drugs?
There was eight at once in Florida somewhere. Think around 1999/2000 maybe? I don’t know if they all survived.
Also, it’s recommended that women wait 2-4 weeks after giving birth to have sex again. Plus, ovulation would need to start again. If a woman is breastfeeding - she may not ovulate for weeks, months…or until she stops nursing totally.
WoHo don’t count on either of these. First, I never waited to have sex though the doctor said a week AND I got pregnant while nursing my oldest (both breasts at a time so I had a LOT of milk) because I believed that nursing would prevent me from getting pregnant right away. I continued to nurse even though I was pregnant by three months.
First, I said “recommended” for waiting on sex. Second, I said “may not” ovulate. I have heard of people who had sex again right away…it seems sort of gross to me, but I’m sure for others it’s not that bad. The amount of milk you have has little to do w/ ovulation as far as I know. Some women’s body simply restart ovulation right away, while other’s don’t. I rarely had excess milk, but I continued to have milk present for at least the 2 months following Jocelynn’s weaning. In those 2 months, my cycle had still not returned - which means I still wasn’t ovulating.
I wasn’t saying that it’s birth control (and even though it seemed to work [for me] the first time, I am not tempting fate a second time & have already discussed several birth control methods with my midwife)...just that if someone is trying to calculate how/when a woman would be able to conceive following the birth of a child…those are 2 things they should attempt to factor in. Some doctors are still recommending the 6-8 week rule for sex. It was quite a while before my c-section scar was healed up enough to even attempt sex. I was afraid of ripping everything open with too much movement.
My mother & her siblings are all 2 years apart. For her, nursing naturally spaced her children out. My siblings (not counting me) have 15 & 17 months between them b/c nursing did not space things out for my mother.
The most common form of human multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of higher orders up to octuplets (eight babies) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive. The largest set in which all members survived more than a few days is septuplets, the first of which was in 1997. The largest set to have even a single member survive is octuplets, in 1998 (with the seven surviving octuplets born in Texas).
There have been a few sets of nonuplets (nine) in which a few babies were born alive, though none lived longer than a few days. There have been cases of human pregnancies that started out with ten, eleven, twelve or fifteen fetuses, but no known instances of live births of such high multiples in a single pregnancy. Most of these pregnancies are the result of fertility medications and ART, though a set of duodecaplets (twelve) was conceived spontaneously (without the aid of fertility treatments) in Argentina in 1992. ( )
Multiple pregnancies in humans are usually delivered before the full term of 40 weeks gestation. The average length of pregnancy is around 36 weeks for twins, 34 weeks for triplets and 32 weeks for quadruplets.
And, here are the odds of “weird births” (like twins). (Oh, and we’re assuming that there are no fertility drugs involved, so no 8-kid litters).
“natural” Twins (“natural” as in without fertility drugs) are a 1 in 60 chance.
“natural” triplets are 1 in 8,100
“natural” quads are 1 in 729,000
“natural” quints are 1 in 55,000,000
The chances of a baby being stillborn is 1 in 115
I came up with 55 kids. DAMN! But my calculating methods are less than, well, exact. Can anyone else come up with something interesting?
I just figured I’d mention it…my mother was pregnant 13 times total, and 3 times it was twins. She only had 4 live births. Two times w/ twins she went into early labor & delivered stillborns. The other time, she began to miscarry before she knew she was pregnant…but once she was at the hospital, the doctor examined everything coming out & determined it had been TWO babies. For the non-twin pregnancies, she simply miscarried. The ones BEFORE I was born (1983) involved miscarriage & it typically happened in her first trimester, b/f she ever realized or suspected she was pregnant. She was a truck driver in the Army & she thinks it may simply of been her activity that caused it. (Jumping up & down off of truck beds. Unloading very heavy things herself…etc.) Then she delivered myself, followed by 3 others (all alive & kicking today) and she had one additional pregnancy after my sister, but that miscarriage caused some sort of hemorrhage & she had to have a hysterectomy.
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.
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.
This would prove that some people are gentically destined to have lots of twins.
Leontina Albina and the wife of Feodor Vassilyev should get the award for having a HELL of a reproductive system.
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.
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.
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.
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