My grandmother had 9 children and she was absolutely fine, most of dh and my family have had several children really, all of whom were healthy and lived to old age. The most recent being mil she had 7 children and lived to almost 93 years, was active to the very end. Family near us had 15 kids, again mother was in good health, well never heard anything to the contrary anyway. Ironically my mother only had me, and she was old way before her time,and died age 50, and as for myself, well I have had a baby every year for the last 6.5 years and another on the way in new year, my health hasn't suffered in any way whatsover.
As for the lady next door to us - well she never had children and is house bound, as her body has long given up on her. So it goes to show that having babies has nothing at all to do with your state of health, if anything I would say it no doubt improves ones state of mind!
As for the duggar family, sorry to say this, but I don't know what people are going on and on about them with endless negative remarks for?
Yes the mother is expecting the 17th baby this month, and she is in excellent health at age 40/41....so what, where's the problem?
Some people seem to go after the fact that the older kids have buddies, yes, so what, I don't know any families where the older kids don't help out with the younger ones anyway, so what difference does it make with this family? And as for those who moider that the kids don't get adequate care and attention etc, well bl**dy hell how many parents do we all know of who can't look after one or two kids, everyone seems to have forgotten that someone who has a lot of kids obviuosly want them, otherwise no doubt they would have been prevented.
As for the people who go on and on about them being a very, very religious family, who bombard their kids with bible studies. I'm sure they are very much that way, but having said that, in this day and age, don't you feel there's a hell of a lot worse things they could do?
Personally dh and I intend to have several more babies after #7, and yes I am only a couple of years from the big 40, so what, mil was almost 50 when she had her last baby, and as I said before, she was super healthy right til the very end. She never once said anything bad about anybody, she had the best policy of all, and that was to live and let live. She had no time to interfere with anyone else anyway, she only lived for her own famly, and was totally devoted to them.
Thing is, this is something without any hard and fast rules, I could add that mil was vegetarian, was that why she was so healthy? What about these mothers who smoke throughout their pregnancies, the ones we all see with one hand pushing the pram and the other holding the fag, are they meant to be healthy, doubt it somehow whether they have one child or 21(that was the truth in my own mothers case anyway, its no wonder she was in constant poor health and met her untimely death at only 50). And what sort of message does that portray to their child/ren anyway? See what i'm getting at, its a no win situation. But to imply that mothers with several babies are less healthy than mothers who have 1 or 2,or women who have no kids at all, doesn't make any sense at all to me, as it can go either way.
Surely lifestyle plays a part though?
Sorry to ramble on, I am not having a go at anybody, just thought I'd share my views, that's all, even as worthless as they may be!! lol!!!! Good luck to all who have loads of babies(or just 1 or 2), take care to all who are pregnant, hope all goes well for all. xxx