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Ten kids and counting !

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LilyLoo · 19/03/2007 21:13

Is this madness ?

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hatrick · 19/03/2007 21:59

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LilyLoo · 19/03/2007 22:04

Did this programme convince anyone to go for it then ?

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NuttyMuffins · 19/03/2007 22:05

I would go for 4th one tommorow but there is the slight problem of no man LOL.

lonelyone · 19/03/2007 22:05

WELL my mother should have listen to advise about insurance he she brought the house but as usual Dawna knows best, THEY HAD NO INSURANCE apart from buildings and contents even tho a financial advisor told her to and we even advised her to, she just saw it a a waste of money.

Even when we as a family found out the My dads illness was Terminal we advised her and asked questions which she did not provide trueful answers too.

SO FOR FEELING SORRY FOR HER I WOULDNT SHE BROUGHT THE HOUSE ISSUE ON HERSELF, she would rather go to bingo or on a holiday with out the kids rather than pay to protect the familys main asset

Ceolas · 19/03/2007 22:13

Both DH and I were impressd by the family with 12 daughters and one son. for her that she had the miscarriage.

Don't think I could cope with so many though.

Mamazon · 19/03/2007 22:14

its a bit wierd though. people always ask "whats it like in a family of 12?"

to which i answer "whats it like in a family of 4?" to me its normal, and you cope because you know no different.

Honeymum · 19/03/2007 22:19

There must be a name for this - I mean it must be a syndrome of some sort. The film maker's didn't really examine the issue did they? There's something unsavoury about wanting more and more babies - it suggests that it's the baby that these women want, not the child/person it grows into.

As for fertility treatment (even if it's just Clomid) on the NHS when you already have 13 kids. That woman should have been kicked out of the midwife's office and into a psychiatrist's surely!!

Also - pregnancy at that age, on the heels of so many other pregnancies, is high-risk in the extreme. None of these women seemed concerned about the risk they were taking with their own health/the likelihood of leaving existing children motherless.

LilyLoo · 19/03/2007 22:20

True Honeymum def skirted real issues !

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Ceolas · 19/03/2007 22:20

I did have an issue with the fertility treatment. Surely someone is trying to tell you something when you're that age with so many children...

LilyLoo · 19/03/2007 22:25

Am sure doctor would have been much more sympathtic had they had no children.

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jalopy · 20/03/2007 07:56

I got the impression that some of the parents, hell-bent on having more kids, were very selfish and wanted to fulfil their own needs. They seemed to forget the bigger picure, ie, the needs of the older children. The look on the girls faces when the mum announced her 14th pregnancy. One of her daughters had lost track of how many were in the family. Says it all really.

Tutter · 20/03/2007 08:01

couldn't bring myself to watch much but at portia mercedes

MummyPenguin · 20/03/2007 10:41

In the light of the last couple of posts, can I just speak out in defence of the Lewises? The family with 12 Daughters. I know Tracy as some of her kids go to school with my kids. Her DD is in my DD's class, and we have others in the same year.

They are a genuinely nice family with decent morals. Pete works hard for his family. The girls (I don't see the Son) are always well turned out, and I have seen them en masse at church and school events and they are no more boisterous than my three.

Personally, I don't understand why people want so many children, but each to their own, and if they're funding it themselves, good luck to them.

Last year sometime, I saw Tracy outside school, I don't see her often, so asked how the pregnancy was going, and she told me she'd lost the baby, and with a real air of sadness sha said "I've never lost one yet." I aopologised for putting my foot in it, albeit unwittingly, but she was very nice about it and told me not to worry.

I think her older DD saying "what number are we on?" was a joke more than anything, and the pregnancy was a bit of a shock, as most pregnancy news is when you first hear it.

The ones that make me cross are the benefits scroungers. They always pop up on these programmes don't they?

nickytwotimes · 20/03/2007 12:28

i thought there might be a thread about this! i thought the lewis's were lovely - nice parents, nice kids. yes, the benefits people were a bit annoying, but they always wheel people like that out on these shows about kids. the one i didn't get was the couple who had 13 and wanted to get treatment to get a 14th.

SueBaroo · 20/03/2007 13:37

I've got a number of friends with upwards of 8, they are all quite well-balanced individuals, nothing wrong with them at all. I've only got four myself, which is challenging enough in a three bedroomed house As long as they aren't relying on benefit, I don't see the problem.

Ceolas · 20/03/2007 15:22

Can you imagine 15 people living in a 3-bed semi???

God knows why the dr wouldn't sterilise her

ScottishThistle · 20/03/2007 15:39

The Lewis's were a lovely family & I felt so sad for her when she had a miscarriage.

The Woman trying for no.14 & on clomid needs to see a Psychiatrist surely, it must be an illness to not know when to stop!

The scroungers are another story, whether they have 4 or 13 children doesn't really make a difference...Unless the council have kicked out their neighbours & knocked 2 houses into 1!

nickytwotimes · 20/03/2007 15:41

scottish, i couldn't agree more! btw, are you scottish or are you named after the laura ashley wallpaper in my office?

ScottishThistle · 20/03/2007 15:44

nickytwotimes, I'm Scottish!...I'm sure the wallpaper is fabulous however!

nickytwotimes · 20/03/2007 15:46

och aye, it is.

ScottishThistle · 20/03/2007 15:49

I'm so nosey I'll have to go & find what it looks like now!!!

BabyMadwithBump · 20/03/2007 16:01

My dad was an hard working man and tried to give us all that he could my mother on the other hand didn't, and when my dad died she got with Harry only 2 weeks after we put our dad in the ground and my 3 brothers and I were very upset over this, but she is saying that we were all happy for them, which annoys me so much (told you a liar). Harry was a working man and moved in just 6 weeks after being together but my mother was claiming still as a single mum () for over 10 months, so why they/she couldn't pay the mortgage(?) I don't know, he was working, she was on dss, one of the benefits was she was getting half the mortgage paid for her/them, so how on earth she got into debt I do not know, my gran bailed her out and pay everything, debt's everything and put her in fort with her mortgage by 2/3 months, but only to lose the house 6 months later again so there's something wrong there if you ask me. Now she is living down the road from me in a very small 3 bedroom house, but she only has 6 children to care for now! In the program she kept say ten ten ten, all the time but me and my brother Gary were not living at home so there was only ever eight!

She read out a poem on the program at my dad's grave side which "I BLOODY WELL WROTE" for my dad only, not the whole world, she had no rights reading that at all, I did get really upset about that, it was the same one I wrote for him when he died, I wasn't coming to terms with the fact he was gone, and my DH said that I needed to sit down and write him a letter or a poem so that's what I did, my mother TOLD me I had to read it in church, I really didn't want to I begged her not to make me, she said that "if it was a poem from one on his children then it's from all the children", my DH stepped and told her to "back off at had nothing to do with her or anyone, it's was from Elishea to her dad", my mother told me I would disappointment my dad like I always HAVE all my life ! One other big thing that made me mad on the program (loads of small things LIKE...... I don't know...... "the whole lot") was she said my dad died at 12.30am and in HER arms, NO, He died at 2am and she had her back to him, pasted out drunk and DRUGed up, my brothers (aged 14 & 17) found him dead just after 2am and my mother was pasted out about 11.30pm I didn't go to bed till 1am which I checked on my dad just before!

My mother is such I liar My mother wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped her right in the face!

ScottishThistle · 20/03/2007 16:09

I feel so sad for you BMWB especially re the poem.

If I were you I wouldn't go selling stories to the Newspaper, people who know your Family will know your Mum for what she is I'm sure!

jalopy · 20/03/2007 16:10

It's not the financial implications, such as whether they are on benefits or not, that bothers me. It's the presumption that the older children will embrace the idea of more siblings on the way. It seems to me that the the older children end up 'parenting' the younger ones. How can each child's individual needs be met in such massive families?

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