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Sixteen kids and counting....

199 replies

BarnYardCow · 09/01/2013 12:28

Anyone else looking forward to a new episode on Friday where I think they have just had number 17, plus one of the elder daughters is expecting too!

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ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow · 11/01/2013 21:42

Aw, gorgeous baby! Smile

lopsided · 11/01/2013 21:44

The mum and dad are just lovely.

Just as well Sophie doesn't want family visiting or touching her baby for at least a week!

My question though is who would she have left the little one with for a week?

PetiteRaleuse · 11/01/2013 21:45

Sussex do you have a link to her blog?

I think they are great. It's absolutely not for me, but they seem happy.

Littlemissexpecting · 11/01/2013 21:47

I thought the same redpickle!!
I really don't know how the parents do it but the kids seem happy.

lollydollydrop · 11/01/2013 21:48

I really want to know what he does for work!!! To afford them all... I would love a big fam. It looked like he may own a shop? Maybe he has a fleet of them, it hasnt said has it?x

PetiteRaleuse · 11/01/2013 21:48

Found the linkto their blog : www.theradfordfamily.co.uk/

loveroflife · 11/01/2013 21:50

Her stomach was so smooth when having her scan - not one stretchmark...incredible!

MrsReiver · 11/01/2013 21:50

Lolly, he owns a bakery.

Fairylea · 11/01/2013 21:50

Good luck to them but I just can't see how in a family of that size how the children get any real parental time ... especially the littlest ones.

I suppose they benefit from having the older children to look after them too... but I have one dd age 9 and a ds 7 months and I constantly find myself pulled in a thousand directions. I think you'd have to ignore a lot of crying etc and I don't think I could do that at all.

MrsReiver · 11/01/2013 21:50

Or rather they own a bakery.

CremeEggThief · 11/01/2013 21:50

Wow! Massive respect for getting that amount of kids out on time in the morning and keeping the house so tidy.

lollydollydrop · 11/01/2013 21:53

haha, the gran obviously cant cope with it quite as well!!

ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow · 11/01/2013 21:53

I know a family with 9 children (most of whom are home-schooled...!) and the older ones do muck in with the little ones. Everyone seems extremely confident and well-adjusted.

lollydollydrop · 11/01/2013 21:53

Thanks MrsReiver. Must be very popular! :)

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Meglet · 11/01/2013 21:55

I suppose having a massive house helps, wasn't it 10 bedrooms? That's lots to keep tidy but the kids aren't too squashed in their rooms.

ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow · 11/01/2013 21:57

The lentil-weaver in me thinks she ought to treat herself to a better sling than that rubbish crotch-dangler! Grin

Chippychop · 11/01/2013 21:58

I think they are wonderful! I say if you are funding it all yourself why not. Lovely peopleGrin

Bottleoffish · 11/01/2013 21:58

I was thinking that too reshape... Grin

TheCrackFox · 11/01/2013 21:59

They seem like a lovely family and I feel completely inadequate in comparison.

Also really nice to see a huge house filled with lots of kids.

MrsReiver · 11/01/2013 21:59

Reshape I just said the same thing!

olympicvibes · 11/01/2013 22:00

only saw last part but they came across as a lovely family-fantastic parents and grandparents.

sussexsongbird · 11/01/2013 22:02

I just googled sue radford to find it. I think she's stopping posting on the blog bow she has the website up. God knows how she manages to find time to do anything on the Internet!

sussexsongbird · 11/01/2013 22:03

Wonder if we all had our first kids at fourteen if we would have escaped stretch marks too. We'll never know now!

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 11/01/2013 22:04

What a lovely family!