Couple has 12 boys and pregnant again

[countthestars]

May her uterus never fall out.

[Deleted]

12 kids of any gender would send me over the edge. There would probably be a lot of TV's mounted next to baby beds and me hiding in my room.

[jenn248]

Oct 29, 2014 13:01:54 GMT -5 countthestars said:

May her uterus never fall out.

I literally just laughed out loud.

I absolutely cannot fathom why anyone would want 12 kids - or to spend half their life pregnant.  Nope, nope, nope. 

ETA - Oh, and a friend's husband who is a paramedic once told us about being sent to the home of a woman whose uterus did fall out (I forget how many children she had, but it was quite a few).  It makes me cross my legs tighter just thinking about it.

[tela]

My grandma had 12 (with a couple of miscarriages mixed in there). We found her journal after she passed. She wrote that she thinks she had so many because she was shy. The kids kept her busy and since she was always caring for children she didn't have to mingle with other adults.

I thought that was such an interesting way of thinking about it.

She was also a devout catholic and against bc when her doctor offered it her.

[hilwithonelary]

I wonder how Michelle Duggar would have handled 12 boys in a row. She wouldn't have her girls to do all the work for her!

[halfpint]

Oct 29, 2014 13:06:30 GMT -5 jenn248 said:

Oct 29, 2014 13:01:54 GMT -5 countthestars said:

May her uterus never fall out.

I literally just laughed out loud.

I absolutely cannot fathom why anyone would want 12 kids - or to spend half their life pregnant.  Nope, nope, nope. 

ETA - Oh, and a friend's husband who is a paramedic once told us about being sent to the home of a woman whose uterus did fall out (I forget how many children she had, but it was quite a few).  It makes me cross my legs tighter just thinking about it.

Oh God, I can't be the only one suddenly inspired to do Kegels. 

[ilikedonuts]

Well when you are pregnant for over half your life, I don't really consider that all that special.

[bowies]

You don't have to have a lot of kids to have your ute fall out. It happened to my friend's neighbor.

I'm sad I know that.

[lg28]

Not gonna lie, after about 4 boys and no girls I would totally start having gender disappointment!
There isn't enough booze in the world for me to have 13 kids.

[jene]

My grandma's ute started falling out when she was 90 (she only had 2 kids). I was horrified when my mom told me that.

[turtlegirl]

Oct 29, 2014 13:18:46 GMT -5 hilwithonelary said:

I wonder how Michelle Duggar would have handled 12 boys in a row. She wouldn't have her girls to do all the work for her!

This literally made me LOL. 

[halfpint]

People, enough with the prolapsed ute talk.

[MoonPie]

Talk of that many kids scares me so bad. I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water some days with 1. I'll be off crying the corner now.

[hermione]

Oct 29, 2014 14:01:10 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

"After having 11 boys, Kateri and Jay Schwandt decided to try for one more child, hoping they might finally have a baby daughter. Instead, the couple just brought home their 12th son
."

How sweet.

I think it means just as in recently not just as in not at all special.

[narockshard]

These people go to a church I sometimes go to. I think it's crazy how their story has gone national!

[scribellesam]

Oct 29, 2014 14:00:32 GMT -5 deej said:

Half your life being pregnant sounds like one of the circles of hell to me.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

[halfpint]

Oct 29, 2014 14:09:42 GMT -5 narockshard said:

These people go to a church I sometimes go to. I think it's crazy how their story has gone national!

Ok, this brings up a valid question - are they Quiverfull types? Or do they really just like kids?

ETA: I just saw this - "The Schwandts, who live Rockford, which is north of Grand Rapids, consider themselves devout Roman Catholics and don't believe in using birth control. Kateri Schwandt comes from a family of 14 kids. She said she is feeling well." 

So I guess that's not really at all Quiverfull. 

[Velar Fricative]

Pre-pregnancy I was at the gynecologist for my annual exam and there was a very pregnant woman with two young boys in the waiting room. She asked how far along I was but I told her I wasn't pregnant (I wasn't offended, every other woman in there was visibly pregnant so she must have assumed I was newly-pregnant). Then she said, "Don't do it. This is my 9th child. 9th boy. I keep trying for a girl." And then I sat there and nodded because what on earth do you say to that?

[Marmee]

22-23yr spread, not that bad.
I know people with ute problems with 2-3 kids.

The 8 in 11yrs freaks me out more.

DH had a coworker in her 60s that was #1 of 8 girls...basically 1 a year. The Doc told her mom she'd end up in a wheelchair because something was happening with her hips/pelvis. She stopped...the Dad was a cowboy& they lived in a cabin in NM. She's the coolest lady & they have some interesting stories for sure.

[Deleted]

But seriously though. When you have that many of one sex, if you finally got one of the other, it seems like there would be so much pressure on the kid. I think I have mentioned before that on H's side of the family, he has over a dozen male cousins and not a single female. SIL is finally pregnant with the magical baby girl in this family (she has 3 boys as well). She said the other day "I'm kind of worried that she might get spoiled". No shit, SIL.

[statlerwaldorf]

My great grandparents had 13 kids. 12 boys and the youngest was a girl. My grandpa and his brothers caused a lot of trouble when they were in their teens and early 20s. My grandpa was one of the younger ones and his brothers would take him to bars when he was really young.

[niq]

31 posts, zero Shtettles method jokes. I am disappointed.

[soxin2]

There's a family in Illinois that has 14kids, only 1 girl.

They have a website.


They're a bit Duggar-esque.

[imojoebunny]

My great grandmother was one of 12. She had one kid. Before birth control. She and her DH had separate rooms.

I don't blame her. 12 kids sounds like hell for everyone. how do they even afford to feed them? How much does that cost?

[sent]

Oct 29, 2014 18:53:23 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

how do they even afford to feed them? How much does that cost?

I always wonder this.  My dad is one of 10 and grew up really poor.  But those were different times in a different world.  

The biggest Catholic families I went to school with in the 80s topped out at 7 or 8.  Sharing bedrooms were a given and this was back when you could overstuff a station wagon with kids without anyone batting an eye.  The moms SAHM and the dads had jobs that could support the brood.                      

[Deleted]

The EDD is only nine months after #12 was born. How does that even work? They did it the first week pp and she already had an egg?

[water*drop]

Oct 29, 2014 19:37:47 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

The EDD is only nine months after #12 was born. How does that even work? They did it the first week pp and she already had an egg?

#12 was born last year, not this past August.

[GotWine]

I'm trying to picture myself with 12 kids, or being pregnant for that amount of time. I would not be a pleasant person to be around!

[ladygrey]

DH's cousin has 12 kids ranging in age from 4-19. She is a little kooky and is obsessed with being pregnant, which is mainly why she kept popping them out one after the other. After the last kid, her doctor had to do a hysterectomy because she was so messed up from having that many kids. FIL jokingly refers to her family as "the litter."

[Deleted]

Oct 29, 2014 19:56:05 GMT -5 water*drop said:

Oct 29, 2014 19:37:47 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

The EDD is only nine months after #12 was born. How does that even work? They did it the first week pp and she already had an egg?

#12 was born last year, not this past August.

Oh well that's at least somewhat reasonable.