I found this old thread, in which people mention the ever-popular Russian couple with 69 kids. This couple is mentioned everywhere on the internet, but unaware of any real documentation for this.
I’d thought I would give this topic a second try.
What is the most children born to one woman with supporting documentation. I assume this means that it will have to be a more recent example.
You know who else counted children…
Seriously though, during WWII, the Germans gave out the “Mother’s Cross” for women with kids. I think the highest cross was for women with over 10 kids. My guess would be that there would be some detailed records with regard to this.
How fast in theory can a women get pregnant after she gives birth? I assume it takes a few days after giving birth to get reorganzied down there and get ready for the next one.
But I think they call them Dutch twins or Irish twins, or something like that. Two babies born in the same year but not twins. Like one is born in January 2010 and the other kid is born in October, Novemeber or December of 2010. So they both have the same birth year.
Usually takes at least six weeks for post-birth bleeding (called lochia) to stop, and a couple of weeks after to start ovulating. If the woman breastfeeds it can delay ovulation significantly, up to two years. I usually start about nine months after a birth.
So, for most people there has to be at least a six-eight week wait before ovulation and possible pregnancy, probably more like two and a half months. So kids can be born, what, every twelve months or so? And if you start at, say, sixteen…
My brother was born in August of one year, and I was born in July of the next. And I was two weeks early, so that leaves just a few weeks between birth and next pregnancy, I believe. And my brother was born breach, so ouch.
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[li]and there’s twins and triplets (especially common when a woman is older and on fertility treatment)[/li][li]and there’s starting before sixteen… (the youngest mother in the world was 8 :eek:but she stopped at 3)[/li][/ul]
I reckon it’ll be at least in the low twenties.
I suspect that the number of women who have had 18-20 kids (so as to even be in the running here) who go on to later seek fertility treatments when they begin to have trouble conceiving is vanishingly small. In fact, I suspect it’s non-existent.
A friend of mine comes from a family of twelve, and only one was a singleton. The others are all twins or triplets. All without fertility treatments. So there may be a tendency in some women/couples that make multiple births non-independent events.