The debate about how many children should be in a family will never stop. Someone judges this on the basis of the political situation in the country, someone draws their conclusions based on the health of the nation, there may be a lot of options. One thing is clear and clear - the family has as many children as it sees fit.
There are exceptions when there is no desire, but there are some certain principles, such as those that prohibit abortions, oblige to have a minimum in the number of children. Somewhere it is a tribute to tradition, somewhere religious considerations, family traditions. One way or another, there will always be those people who will break the record for the number of children.
To date, according to official information, the largest number of children that one woman gave birth to is equal to 69. The wife of the peasant Fyodor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, this happened in the period from 1725 to 1765. 16 times the woman gave birth to twins, 7 times she gave birth to triplets, and four times gave birth to four twins, only two children died as babies, the rest all survived.
For the 18th century, this is a very, very strange statistic, maybe someone wrote about it so that we would believe in the 21st century. It is now impossible to check this information, all that remains is to believe in words. If we talk about the twentieth century, then we can recall Leontina Albina from San Antonio, this woman gave birth to 55 children on her own, they are not adopted, they are not foundlings, she personally gave birth to these children. Childbirth took place between 1943 and 1981, the first three pregnancies were crowned with three triplets, all of them male.
Going further, there is a certain record for the number of births, a woman named Elizabeth Greenhill gave birth 38 times. She lived in Abbots Langley, this is in the UK, she had 39 children, including 32 daughters, seven sons.
This brave woman died in 1681. Another record tells us about 15 triplets in one family. Again, it seems like someone wrote a joke that later became historical fact. The name of this woman is Madeleine Granata, she lived in Italy. No less interesting is that in the state of Pennsylvania, the city of Philadelphia, in 1971, 11 twins were born. The same goes for Bangladesh, where 11 twins were born in 1977. And in the first and in the second case, none of the children could survive.
Going further, a doctor named Gennaro Montanin from Rome told reporters that in July 1971 he personally removed embryos from a woman's uterus, of which 10 were girls, 5 were boys.
We are talking about a 35-year-old patient who came for an appointment after taking fertility pills, as a result, she immediately became pregnant with 15 children. But on June 13, 1971 in Australia, Geraldine Brodrick gave birth to five boys and four girls, 2 boys were stillborn, all other children were able to live only 6 days.
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If we talk about positive cases, then in January 2009 the American mother Nadia Suleiman gave birth to eight children, their weight ranged from 800 grams to 1.4 kg. 6 boys and 2 girls were born, it was the 31st week of pregnancy. The woman was never married, but at that time she already had six children.
After that, the woman was literally torn apart by American television projects, she was able to earn a lot of money on her children, this topic was actively discussed on the Internet.
But the peasant of the village of Vvedenskoye Yakov Kirillov was recognized as the most large father in Russia, he even became assigned to the court in his 60 years in 1755. The fact is that the first wife of a peasant gave birth to 57 children, it was 4 times with four babies, then another 7 times with three children, then again 9 births with two babies and, finally, 2 times with one child. The peasant's second wife gave birth to 15 children. This is how dad got 72 children in total.
KARAGOZOVA MARIA