Eeek, it does not bare thinking about - but it does seem that if having all these children did not kill you then you would have to wait for old age & the 'Grim Reaper'... Even when I was a child there were a couple of women who had 10 + babies in the village and survived into old age...it seems to be pure chance.. Your gal seems to be one plucky woman, Gay? But I think the older kids would have learned how to look after the younger ones & so it would have, if anything, become easier for Mother re child care? Generally speaking, breast-feeding would delay the next conception which is why children are normally born two years apart, I understand? I think the Guiness book of Records has recorded a woman having over 40 children in France or Russia or somewhere - but am not sure about that? It is just something I think I heard about... cathy

Breast feeding is not the contraceptive it is often made out to be. One of my university classmates had her first two children ten months apart, and became pregnant while breast feeding her elder son. Mind you, the younger son was premature, but still, Jen became pregnant while breast feeding. ----- Original Message ----- From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] How many children can one woman have? Eeek, it does not bare thinking about - but it does seem that if having all these children did not kill you then you would have to wait for old age & the 'Grim Reaper'... Even when I was a child there were a couple of women who had 10 + babies in the village and survived into old age...it seems to be pure chance.. Your gal seems to be one plucky woman, Gay? But I think the older kids would have learned how to look after the younger ones & so it would have, if anything, become easier for Mother re child care? Generally speaking, breast-feeding would delay the next conception which is why children are normally born two years apart, I understand? I think the Guiness book of Records has recorded a woman having over 40 children in France or Russia or somewhere - but am not sure about that? It is just something I think I heard about... cathy ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving the messages individually or want them individually) or Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a digest of multiple messages or want this mode) In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe or unsubscribe.