Sue Radford, baby 21 is here..

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21 babies! That's some achievement. I cannot believe her body is still in one piece. I feel sorry for those kids though. There's absolutely no way they can all have the individual attention they need growing up. Four kids maybe, perhaps 6 at an absolute push but 21 seems like collecting trophies for a hobby to me. It'd be interesting to see what families those children decide to have when the time comes. It seems like she's putting her own want for babies ahead of her existing children's wellbeing & that isn't healthy. I'm curious that she's practically guaranteed herself an endless supply of babies as her children have children. But they're supposedly paying for everything themselves so we're not allowed to say anything against them. I don't agree with it. Tell me I'm being U.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe then what on Earth are you doing on mumsnet?!

Thanks Rousette, I only use Twitter for work and haven't paid any attention to it. It's good to know that something positive is happening on there. I will have a look myself.

Yes, rather ironic I'm chatting with Lying about this on social media

Falling, Lately I've been asking myself that very question.

Donutcone as an adopted child myself it does not explain such behaviour. Because of the emotional stress it caused me even having one child was a massive decision
Even emotional rejection has longstanding effects.
I knew how it felt when parents get it so wrong. I could never wish that upon another child.
I needed in my head to be perfect and it caused me as a parent a lot of heartache.

You'd be amused (maybe) Rousette to know that I'd thought 'Reddit' to be a small forum of disgruntled posters spun off Mumsnet... and it's obviously not.

I really don't know a lot about the various platforms and perhaps I should. I know about this one though.

Lying it's a long haul on there, honest it is! I didn't have a clue what to do on there to start with, then slowly but surely I gained a couple of followers then showed interest in all sorts of stuff going on... followed people, retweeted, gained enough courage to tweet myself... 1,350 followers later...

Interesting point. My dad was adopted, he was 1 of 14 by 12 different fathers. He craved a massive family and was disappointed with 5. But he clearly was so damaged by his feelings about his adoption that he was completely unable to parent effectively. He would’ve had as many as possible. Luckily my mum had her head screwed on and held it all together for us. If he’d met someone equally obsessed with breeding then he’d have had as many as physically possibly.
During the first series Noel and Sue were on they apparently had a nanny 9-2 so Sue could work in the bakery. The children also repeatedly say to the media the parents are obsessed with babies. There will be another unless nature steps in.

Oh Lying Reddit is ginormous!!!! Apparently MN have about 36,000 posts a day. Reddit probably have that in millions! I darent go on it, I'll get addicted to that too!

I have Tata steel and that's about it.

Anchor i crossed posts with you there, for you

Oh well, the birth rate is down, so we can expect more fuss about mothers like Sue Radford, to encourage everyone else to do their bitI (Although I thought overpopulation was a threat to our standard of living, not underpopulation).

I was brought up in a family with four children where there was never enough money even for basics, like shoes and school uniforms, so I limited my childbearing to two because I didn't want to be constantly scrimping and saving. I look at stories like this and think I must have missed something - how does anyone afford 21 children? A PP said they pay for it all themselves, but I doubt that.

I've known a few women who seemed to be a bit addicted to pregnancy and birth, in all cases it seemed to be the attention they got while pregnant and caring for a newborn which they enjoyed, as well as having a new baby, of course. I can't help wondering if the Radford family would carry on growing if the TV cameras disappeared.

I agree Falling I think it was fate it was two people meeting with the same need or yearning. If it was just one marrying someone else, it wouldnt have happened, because the one would have put the brakes on after a normal big family

Each to their own. I come from a place where big families are pretty much the norm, 10+ kids.

I've been racking my brains about their bedroom distribution though, iirc, they have 9 bedrooms? Not 10. 1 for the parents leaves 8. Oldest 2 have moved out, one was stillborn. Youngest baby with parents. So you'd pretty much end up 2 kids per room, maybe 3 for the youngest ones. And yet in the programme they had 4 in one bedroom, 6(?) in other. Seems unnecessary.

I have no accounts on Reddit or Pintrest or Instagram... just twitter, FB and here.

Don't do it Lying. You'll end up like me.. sad git, on my laptop too much! (Note to self - need to get a life )

Obviously not for a minute suggesting all people who’ve been adopted would have similar issues, my dad did though.

Wow just wow, judgment, spouting of mental health issues. Do any of you know these people personally? Isn't it normal for everyone to tell an OP on the majority of posts on here, its non of there fucking business, well its exactly that.

There is no way you would go up to them & tell them what you have wrote on here face to face.

I love mumsnet most of the time, but the replies on here are awful.

@SisterOfDonFrancisco in the house tour on YouTube there seemed to be bedrooms in the basement. Chloë has her own and there was a spare room down there.

@nozzel I would absolutely have this discussion with them and air my thoughts politely. As a mum of a large family I’d love to know how they actually manage each child’s needs and the washing, feeding, clearing up because I have a full time job keeping up with mine.
They could easily avoid any discussion, by not selling their family to the daily papers.

I've just watched the video on the Mail's website of Sue revealing the gender of her latest baby to the rest of her family. She's not what I expected at all - I expected a Vicki Pollard type. She seems nice and reasonably well spoken and intelligent, and all of her kids look healthy, happy and well cared for. They support their kids themselves, so I don't see the problem.

@northernlights0710 I’m very surprised that you got that from that video. But I guess we are all different.

@nozzle when they sell their family life to the tv and newspapers then they are inviting people to discuss them.

Fallingout apologies if I have missed this in earlier posts but may I ask how many children you have?