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Dear Mumsnet please could we have a 'Larger Families' section?

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 13/03/2008 20:31

rather like the 'multiples' section

it could be for 4+ children maybe and we can all get together and discuss how to run home soup kitchens/chinese laundry and whether or not Nick Leeson had the right idea for how to finance our broods?

I have mooted it before and people seem quite keen - it is different having a lot of children and it helps to have support

Thanks !

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collision · 21/03/2008 10:56

I shall lurk on here and watch you all with admiration and think

'how the hell do you do it?'

I have 2 boys of 5 and 3 and dont want anymore but really admire those of you who cope with the cooking and the washing!

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 10:57

collision.......I do it all with lots of humour and much wine

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 21/03/2008 11:02

lol Psych i keep thinking of you!

we have ds4 sick all yesterday and now a shadow of former self nibbling on a rice cake

dd pale and puking

ds3 diarrhoearing but not yet sick - wont stop eating though so that should be fun

me feeling iffy but have done most of pg so would not know difference!

i shall keep you posted!

thank gawd for my ironer!!

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Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 11:17

Think of me more now......

TV downstairs just effing blew up (not literally, but it fizzled and the nuffin)

how the hell am I going to cope with them all now hey.....sickness abounding and TV was the thing keeping them grounded while huggin their bowls, and I could MN.....

137wallis · 21/03/2008 11:23

hi I would love to join!
I have
ds 9
ds 7
ds 6
ds 2
ds 9 1/2 months
I'm 26 and dh 34 and we've been together for 12years he wants at least 2 more, but I'm holding off for a bit!
as he is just like psycomum5's dh and is fine if I leave them, but needs me to write a full bulletin whats going on list every time!

137wallis · 21/03/2008 11:26

oh and liahgen I got pregnant with my 5th without restarting periods, as was still feeding ds 4, and don't have them either, was a bit of a shock, when the doc actually confirmed that I didn't just have a bug!

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 11:27

wow, 5 boys........you must go thro a lot of wine and coffee.

yup, DH needs lots of lists as and when I am not here, just to be able to cope with the amount of info needed to keep tabs on them all!

137wallis · 21/03/2008 11:29

coffee definatly! not so much wine as still breastfeeding! but will be back on that soon! you have my sympathy, all that sick and no telly my idea of hell! luckily none of mine are ill at the mo so theyre all outside getting muddy with daddy!

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 11:33

I just rang DH and asked him if we had any spare cash......his first question was whether I had crashed the car again.

just cos I have had 3 accidents doesn't mean that every time I ask for money means I have had another now does it?????

hopefully he will be headed home soon, specially as I too now have the beginnings of tummy ache.

ggglmpp · 21/03/2008 11:34

I never know what to put - but I have

DD 18
DD 16
DD 11
DS 8
DD 2
DS 3 months

and a DSS 18.

If I were 10 years younger I would have another one.....

137wallis · 21/03/2008 11:36

ahh thats great, go and have a rest even if you don't get sick! I don't drive, as I would be causing accidents! still can't drive a pushchair very well after nearly 10 yrs with one!

kittywise · 21/03/2008 13:55

I'd like another, but I think that feeling will never go away no matter how many more I have..

Sometimes I think it's all I know how how do. When my babies approach their first birthday I have always got broody, it's happening AGAIN but I have never bothered to resist the urge before.I think 6 kids is enough, although the kids want three more

Must think of my poor old pelvic floor, may it rest in peace

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 14:38

lol kitty. yup, there is that big downside to a large family........pelvic floor is trashed!!

I remember sobbing for hours on my youngest ones 3rd birthday as I always by then had had another, and he was most definately my last, which made all rather heart wrenching.

tokk until he was at full time school, and I found that I could go shopping alone, and even have a hot cup of coffee, befoer I stopped with the gut wretching broodiness!!!!

cazboldy · 21/03/2008 14:41

lol a hot cup of coffee - what's that? likewise dinner most of the time! by the time i have sorted out everyone else and fed lo, mine is always cold!

cazboldy · 21/03/2008 14:42

what cars do all those with more than 5 have? would say that that is one of the main reasons we have stopped, that and space in the house......

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 14:45

oh, I still don;t get hot dinner........DH gulps his down while I am sorting out the sauces/cutting up/extra cuttlery for those invariably dropped/mopping up spilt drinks, and then I get to eat! one day I wil eat it while hot I am sure

as for cars, toyota previa I guess for those with 6, and mini bus or 2 MPV for those with more....?????

kittywise · 21/03/2008 14:54

We have a mercedes vito traveliner, 9 seats, it's fab. I was dead scared when we first got it though, it seemed sooooo huge!!

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 21/03/2008 14:57

they will leave hopefully before the car gets to be an issue!

dp just said 'you can't bear them when they get older why do you want more?'

ggllimpop Welcome!!!!

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Cadmum · 21/03/2008 15:01

Was it number 5 that killed the pelvic floors then?

This is the first time that I have had a 2 year old without being pregnant. Uncharted territory... For now I am pleased with the idea of four and seldom feel broody. (The fact that we have moved through 4 countries in that two years is likely an influencing factor.)

Hot dinner and a hot cup of tea are fading memories here as well though I have to say that the older three are very capable of cutting and spreading themselves so the end could be in sight for me. Now if only I could get them all to enjoy eating the same things...

We drive a huge van and are often teased about the fact that there is still an empty seat...

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 21/03/2008 15:03

my pelvic floor are ok - touch wood but could be 6th time unlucky!

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kittywise · 21/03/2008 15:06

Yes cadmum so are we, people peer in and say "oh look there's room for one more"!!
Actually it was number six that trashed my nethers, I'd been doing pretty well until fat head arrived!!! Actually his head was big but presentation was rubbish!

Paula, it's not a logical feeling though is it?

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 21/03/2008 15:18

no its so illogical but i think broodiness is nature - humans are meant to procreate

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 21/03/2008 15:18

oh kitty wish you had not said about pelvics!

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ggglmpp · 21/03/2008 15:32

My sixth has hammered my waistline. Sob. Bewarned Pyates.

Psychomum5 · 21/03/2008 16:12

my pelvic floor got hammered with #1, so I don't think any amount of babies for me would have made any difference.

but then, i never got stretch marks with any of mine, so I guess I have had a trade off in that respect.

waist never suffered either, but I stopped at five, so there was my saving grace