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What is the largest family you know - where the parents are around your age?

  1. Mrs. Pen

    blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts

    I know a mom who is pregnant with her 9th child. The oldest is 12-13 I think. She's one of those that doesn't use birth control as a religious belief.

    My grocery bill is so much for just us three, I couldn't imagine for nine kids!

  2. travellingbee

    hostess / papaya / 10219 posts

    I have two friends with 5 kids. And a friend with 4.

  3. MrsKoala

    cantaloupe / 6869 posts

    They are slightly older than us but I know a couple who just had their 6th kid in August.

  4. anonysquire

    cantaloupe / 6923 posts

    A local friend has 14 kids. 4 bio, 8 foster children adopted and 2 current foster placements. She seems way more out together than I could ever be. And I don't know her exact age, but 30sish

  5. Finfan

    persimmon / 1436 posts

    A friend who is 31 (so roughly my age) is pregnant with her 4th but they got married at 18. Their oldest is 10 I think. I've only met the oldest two kids since they have moved out of state.

  6. PinkElephant

    grapefruit / 4584 posts

    @anonysquire: Wow! What's the age range on her kids? Does she have family to help her out? She sounds like a rock star.

  7. oliviaoblivia

    pineapple / 12793 posts

    We have grad school friends that have six. Their oldest is nine and the youngest is 18months. No multiples.
    She has been pregnant pretty much the entire time we've known them.
    Mormon.

  8. Pollywog

    persimmon / 1111 posts

    My BIL--6 kids. The youngest is 23 months

  9. Mrs. Champagne

    coconut / 8483 posts

    One of my best friends just turned 30 and has 4. 6,4,3, and 5 months.

    A friend of my husbands has 4 as well: a 3 yr old, twin one year olds and a 5 month old 😵

  10. sandy

    cantaloupe / 6687 posts

    A girl from my high school has 8 kids!

  11. anonysquire

    cantaloupe / 6923 posts

    @PinkElephant: the oldest is 14. And the foster placement is twin babies. I know she has 3 of one of the ages. Like 3 5th graders or something like that. And I think both sides of family live out of state. She for sure is a rockstar!!

  12. Corduroy

    pomelo / 5258 posts

    I know a couple friends with 3 kids but I can't think of anyone with even 4.

  13. coopsmama

    cantaloupe / 6059 posts

    @birdofafeather: Right?? She handles it like it's no big deal, though! It amazes me.

  14. coopsmama

    cantaloupe / 6059 posts

    @winniebee: yes! I can't imagine how tired my body would feel if I were her - my body already feels beat up enough from 3 babies in 3 years....I couldn't do 7 more pregnancies in the next 8-9 years. No way.

  15. rattles

    grapefruit / 4903 posts

    I know a few with 6 and one with 5.

  16. Rainbow Sprinkles

    eggplant / 11287 posts

    One of my friends from high school (she's 28) has 5 kids.

  17. Pumuckl

    pomegranate / 3601 posts

    That'll be ourselves soon with 4 kids under 4. No one we know IRL has more than 3, most just have 2.

  18. petitenoisette

    pear / 1521 posts

    Just one family with 4 kids, but the oldest ones (twins) were only 2.5 when the youngest was born!

  19. ShootingStar

    coconut / 8472 posts

    They're a little older, but my next door neighbors have 4 - one teenage daughter and *triplet* 10 year old boys.

  20. Pancakes

    nectarine / 2180 posts

    A former roommate has 8 kids, aged 6 and under. 5 are adopted and she just gave birth to her third bio kid.

  21. gilmoregirl

    persimmon / 1273 posts

    I have a friend with nine kids. Catholic She is about five years older than me though.

    Of friends who are exactly my age, I don't think I know anyone with more than 3 kids, and even that is uncommon. Most have one kid or maaaybe two.

  22. Periwinkle

    pear / 1879 posts

    I don't think we know anyone our age who has more than 3 children.

  23. mfa_lady

    pomegranate / 3921 posts

    I don't know anyone other than my MIL with more than 4 in real life. I know a couple of families from church and my birth group with 4.

  24. SugarplumsMom

    bananas / 9227 posts

    I can think of three families with 6 kids. One is a good friend of mine and I know the others from Jr.HS, so we're not very close. Most are from blended families, except for one with 6 sons!

  25. mrsbubbletea

    nectarine / 2821 posts

    My coworker who is 1 or 2 years younger than me just had twin girls, and she already had two boys, so she has 4 under four. Her second boy was born 10 weeks before mine, and I went to her wedding a few years ago, so it feels even more surreal to me and different than my life with my one!

  26. Mrs. Blue

    blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts

    Some of our good friends have 8 kids (two are adopted), and another family I know from growing up has 6. Oh, and my brother has 6, but four were adopted in the last two years.

  27. autumnlove

    hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts

    A friend has 4 and one school acquaintance has 6.

  28. ValentineMommy

    pomelo / 5791 posts

    A coworker has 7. We have newish neighbors that we recently met - they have 8!! She's a year older than I am and there are no multiples!!!

  29. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    My bff's brother has four. He's 37/38.

  30. pastemoo

    cantaloupe / 6146 posts

    @mediagirl: 7 sons!

  31. ineebee

    pear / 1580 posts

    I just reconnected with an old friend from high school whose wife is pregnant with their fifth!

  32. Rescuemom10

    pear / 1965 posts

    I have a cousin who has 8 (I think its 8).
    Then a girl I graduated HS with has 7. She is my age (32)

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