Worlds biggest families..

[Vicyi]

Wow read some interesting facts on Wikipedia today (obv being Wikipedia i cant say its 100% accurate) but the world biggest family, from one mother, was 69 children!! Mrs Vassilyev gave birth to sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765!! 67 of the 69 children born were said to have survived infancy. Apparently Mr Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife.

Another big family was Barbara and Adam Stratzmann who gave birth to 53 children in a total of 29 births by 1498. She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins. Although nineteen of the children were stillborn.

And Elizabeth and William Greenhill's family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters and not only were they all live births but apart from one pair of twins they were single births. OUCH!

 

[seoj]

I really do wonder-- Since pregnancy is SO hard on our bodies-- how can a woman even get pregnant and give birth that many times?!

 

[Vicyi]

Thats what i thought! Obv its alot easier for a man, if he has multiple partners, but for a women to have that many pregnancies is just crazy.

 

[Noodlebear]

I had to cross my legs while reading this! Eek! No thank you!!

 

[CRWx]

That's insaaaane!! xxx

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Omg

 

[gezma]

When do they even find time to do the deed with that many children!!!

 

[misspriss]

All those twins, triplets, and quads before modern fertility treatments? I wonder if there was something they were eating...?

 

[Natasha2605]

Crazy!

 

[Tasha]

Wow. I thought I wanted a big family but that is extreme x

 

[Eleanor ace]

Wowzers! I am slightly jealous of families like the Radfords but 69 kids is a few too many for me!

 

[CRWx]

How the bloody hell would you remember them all?

I don't think I could think of 69 names I liked either!

 

[Tasha]

Name them all the same, then you would never get it wrong. Simple.

 

[tallybee]

Name them all the same, then you would never get it wrong. Simple.

Too Many Daves
by
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)


Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate …
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.

 

[Tasha]

Hahahaha. It is okay I wasnt thinking Dave, I was thinking Bob.

 

[Tasha]

Oh and Soggy Muff Totally naming my next kid that. 69 Soggy Muff's is what they should of named them

 

[CRWx]

I was thinking Bob, too!

Soggy muff

 

[CRWx]

Tasha we must have the same brain!

 

[Tasha]

Hahahahahaha, we must do.

 

[cherrylips100]

There are so many jokes I want to make about this but probably shouldnt Lol