number of pregnancies/children

[danuslave]

Amazing women 

[weste]

There was me thinking one of my gran's was a baby machine when she had one at least every 18 months or less. There was 11 children all who survived. I think  there is one family with a couple more! She named the kids after her side of the family. 

[Gillg]

I was an au pair to a German pastor's family in the late 1950s.  He had 14 children between the ages of 2 and 28.  And for some time he was a prisoner of war!  There were only a few bedrooms, but beds were concealed everywhere, folding up into the walls, etc. Fetching the milk from the dairy (no doorstep deliveries) was a major chore in itself. No wonder they needed an au pair! 

There was no hot water system and Saturday night was bath night for everyone; a huge geyser fed with wood hung over the bath and as you washed yourself you would throw a few sticks in to heat the water for the next customer.  As you can imagine, the whole process took hours.

Sorry, I digressed a bit, but you brought back memories.

My husband's mother was one of 14 children and his father was one of 11 (no twins on either side).  The next generation stuck to two per family!

Gillg

[Suzy W]

One of my gg grandmothers had 12 children, one every year starting from 1876.  It is said on her 12th pregnancy she declared I would rather die than go through it again.  And that she did, she died 10 days after her last daughter was born.
One must feel for these women. 

Suzy W

[UpstairsDown]

Great Grand-Mother Ethel was one of 14, 10 of whom survived to adulthood. No wonder her daughter only went on to have 3