Sue Radford and other mums of many kids - just how?!?!

[EllieRosesMammy]

I am genuinely baffled how someone's body can handle that many pregnancies. Like seriously I'm on my 3rd and final baby and I am so so so done. How do people put their body through that many years of being pregnant?!

Not everyone has problems in pregnancy, for some it’s a breeze, and others just love being pregnant.

Like me, I absolutely love being pregnant. Even though I’ve had PGP and preeclampsia in both pregnancies, I just really love it. I’m mid 30s too so not young young.

I don’t want more than two children though, so I won’t get pregnant again, but I can absolutely see why people do.

Yeah I was thinking it must be something like that. I've been high dependancy all my pregnancies and this last one has been the hardest and most uncomfortable. If my 1st was like this I don't think I'd of had any more. 😅

I can't understand it either! My pregnancy was fine but the birth was awful. I have 1 ds and husband has now has a vasectomy - we were both happy with just one. I am 39 though so age may be a factor with us.
But also I'd hate loads of kids running round being noisy 😂1 is perfect for us.
I guess everyone is different though 😊

Continual consecutive pregnancies for the whole of a woman's reproductive years were the norm prior to the advent of reliable contraception. That or dying in childbirth.

For me, the question for a modern woman is not so much 'how?' as 'why?'

I’ve wondered the same thing.

Her body must be like a formula 1 sports car but for baby making! It doesn’t seem to take her long to conceive (based on kids ages…it almost seems like she’s ‘got better at it’ over time!), and she must be ok during/after pregnancy based on how busy she seems and how quickly she’s ready for another ‘round’. Shes quite amazing really!

It’s sad that not everyone is the same… it’s ridiculous to think we’ve evolved in a way where our babies are born helpless, and yet so many women find the process of having them difficult and damaging.

More to the point, how does she do it with all of those children? Being pregnant twice was a breeze compared to currently parenting an opinionated, active toddler and an incessantly talking preschooler….let alone also being a teacher and running a house.

She must have the patience of a saint!

I’ve often wondered this too. I only have one for a variety of reasons. I think some women breeze through pregnancy & just love the baby stage. I’ve heard some women say they love the baby stage so much they want to keep doing it over & over again. Some love the chaos of a big family. It wouldn’t be for me though & I’ve no idea how they manage!

Pregnancy wouldn't be the half of it. I don't know how many newborn years I could do without the exhaustion killing me off.

What I would like to know is how the family keep on top of laundry - how many washing machines and dryers do they have, how many hours does it take, how many kWh do they use, how do they share the work out? Is their utility room a ode to orderly efficiency or a jumble sale - surely with that scale it has to be one or the other?

@FourTeaFallOut I think their house is a former care home…. So maybe they kept the laundry room/facility! I imagine the volunteers of washing is similar. Dread to think what their electric bill is though!!

I wonder if it gets easier after a certain number or once the older ones reach a certain age … older kids can babysit/childmind etc.

I think the noise would drive me insane!

Volume not volunteers!

I wonder if starting very young might help? Teenage pregnancies are a bit higher risk in themselves, but maybe get your body used to being pregnant?

The sleep deprivation from a young baby was 100 × worse than pregnancy and childbirth for me. Imagine 30 years of disrupted sleep! And I wouldn't want to deal with potty training that many times!🤣

Her body did struggle to cope though, she had a stillborn little boy and that was a sign her body couldn't cope & not to mention extremely quick labours.

At least she's reliezed she can't have anymore. Sheer dumb luck that she managed to have that many kids!

Many women would die doing so.

Many women would have been incontinent.

The body isn't meant to have that many pregnancies.