who's got 7 or more children??

[nappyaddict]

just saw this and thought i'd post it here incase anyone is interested.

Seen a lady on a thread today with 9 children. Jurelle I think she's called.

9 or more!

Oh. I misread. 7 or more....

yeah juuule's got 9. already contacted her - well hijacked a thread. if anyone sees her about could you send her over here?emailed mumofeight and twinmummyx2 aswell. couldn't think of any others off the top of my head.

somebody here has 7 - including 2 sets of twins

Stressteddy wanders in and goes away again feeling quite nauseous

We were at the zoo today and there was what appeared to be a family group with 10 children, ages about 0-14, no twins.
I must admit we couldn't help staring

The children were all beautifully behaved, and the older ones helped look after the younger ones. The mother looked in great shape too for having carried/delivered ten babies. I was in awe.

I was more fascinated by them than the lemurs and babboons.

My SIL has 8!!

Um shouldn't that be in a media request? I know NappyAddict has posted it and not the production company themselves but...

Which zoo Roisin?? Psychomum has 5 but often has extras come along for the ride - she was going to Marwell today

roisin, my Mum was often stared at in awe during family outings, she was with 6 kids, three of her own and three cousins. We were all slightly different in age, with about 10 years between youngest and oldest, so could conceivably have been siblings. Mum got to get rid of three of us at the end of the day though

It wasn't Marwell!

We had 5 children in my family, and had a minibus (no MPVs in those days); but 10 really is quite a lot.

Actually I saw them again later in the day and could only count 9. I wonder whether they'd lost one along the way, or whether I miscounted earlier!

Dear lord! do people not have self control?

I know someone with 12. I know someone else with 17, but some of those are adopted...

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self control??

maybe they wanted that many FiTM

I am always slightly amused that even three is considered to be a large family nowadays.... seven was considered to be a largish family when I was growing up but was certainly not unusual enough to make a documentary about

I should hope they did LTH. Your point?

well, questioning their self control sounds like you mean they couldn't stop. That they had more and more because they didn't know how to stop IYSWIM.

wow, imagine 7! we are frequently called the von trapps in our local, and we only have 4 lol

We have a big family holiday with my cousins each year, and generally end up with 11 or 12 children between us. So it quite frequently happens that one of us will go into a shop or down the road with 8 or 9 kids in tow, and yes people do gawp very openly.

It's not for me as we stopped at three (see other thread) but if you are the type who can cope with this many children then I think it's a wonderful thing to do with your life. You'll have a really happy old age I'll bet.

my nan had 13 kids, she died young though (54) must really take it out of you.

furball you're talking about twinmummyx2 with the 2 sets of twins i think. she has 8 though not 7 so maybe there's someone else?