Supermum Sue Radford is celebrating the birth of her 21st baby

[left-of-center2012]

Supermum Sue Radford is celebrating the birth of her 21st baby. Sue, 43, welcomed Bonnie Raye into her king-sized clan after a 12-minute labour. Her other kids were thrilled when she brought 8lb 4oz Bonnie back to the family’s ten-bedroom converted care home in Morecambe, Lancs.

Her baker husband Noel, 47, said: “I don’t think anyone sets out thinking they’ll have 21 children. We thought we’d have three." Supermum Sue, 43, said: “We’ve both decided we don’t want any more. Bonnie has completed our family.” Noel, 47, added: “Some people decide to stop after two or three kids. We’ve made it after 21.”

The couple have said similar things before, including after 14-month-old Archie. And Noel even had a vasectomy, later reversed, after baby number nine. But Sue, who has spent a total of 811 weeks (15½ years) pregnant, insisted: “It has to come to an end at some point.

The couple, who support themselves with their bakery and claim only child benefits, had their first baby when Sue was just 14.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7705758/radford-britains-biggest-family-21st-baby-last-one/

[underpants]

1. She's just popping them out at this point

12 minutes?

My wife's grandmother had 17 in 20 or 25 years.

[whathehell]

6. You might want to re-word that to something less disrespectful

You're speaking of human beings, not pieces of shit

[Squinch]

9. I see nothing disrespectful in that post. She IS popping them out, it WAS a 12 minute labor.

Where's the problem?

[whathehell]

17. Of course you don't

You've never experienced labor and never will, and your male

privilege allows the arrogant assumption that labor of a 'mere'

12 minutes is a breeze, a big nothing, like "popping" gum.


.

[Squinch]

18. I have male privilege? That's pretty stunning since I am a woman.

And are you kidding? Yes, a labor of 12 minutes is astonishingly easy.

Lighten up, Francis. Your outrage is ridiculous.

[Hortensis]

23. Yes, lightening up is appropriate in more ways than one.

Sue herself has done that and intends to keep it that way.



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Tiny Bonnie comes into the world already an aunt to 4 nieces and nephews, so no doubt this family will always have babies to love.

[whathehell]

29. How about that, lol?

I'm pretty "light" already, Francis.

That said, patriarchal societies are filled with male identified women.

[Squinch]

36. I don't even know what "male identified women" means. Do they pop out babies in 12 minutes?

[whathehell]

40. No, you probably don't..

[harumph]

22. It's not nothing - but it's not like "normal" labor either.

[Hekate]

44. I would have used the same phrase, and as I had 18 hour labors with both my kids...

I'd definitely say 12 minutes qualifies as a breeze.

She must be one of those rare women who find pregnancy easy-peasy -- like, no vomiting. Or like my dad's cousin, who believed what the Pope told her and had 11 kids. Or like my mom's cousin's wife, who never felt happy unless she had an infant in her arms (12 kids) and took to drink after her husband had a vasectomy and denied her any more of that.

And really, all those people were born in the 1920's, like almost a century ago now. Even my own grandma, born in the 1880s, knew enough to stop at four when her doc told her to, so numbers 5 and 6 were considerably later.

[whathehell]

47. That's nice.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Whatever. nt

[AJT]

3. Her first child at 14? That's awful.

An 17yr old having sex with a 13 year old.....creepy.

[brush]

4. Wonder what their house looks like? How many bedrooms?

It must be small hotel-sized.

[left-of-center2012]

7. article say ...

"... the family’s ten- bedroom converted care home".

Definition of 'care home':
“A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.”

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/care-home

[angstlessk]

5. That's not a family, that's a crowd n/t

[dustyscamp]

8. And I thought Kevin McCallister's family was big

[Squinch]

10. Sue, it's a uterus, not a clown car.

[ProudLib72]

31. OMG! LOL!!!!

Very rarely do I laugh at a post, but this is absolutely hilarious!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. I'm sure that's going to offend someone, but I'm laughing too hard

to try to guess who.

[Hekate]

37. What you said! Much better than what I said...

Ick.

[smirkymonkey]

38. *snort*

How do these women do it? I don't understand how they can still be up and walking.

[49jim]

11. My maternal grandmother (b.) 1891 had 15

children from 1906 until 1932. There was a set of triplets and a set of twins in the group. My dad was # 12. The last remaining child is my aunt that will be 86 in December.

[MineralMan]

12. Well, given my long-ago decision not to reproduce,

I guess at least one of those ratifies that decision. Anyone who is voluntarily childless can look to that family as justification for the decision. It's plenty of children being born. Ours were not needed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. I knew we had more in common than being democrats.

[PJMcK]

30. Actually, I'm disappointed to hear of your earlier decision, MineralMan

You are a wise, articulate and intelligent man.

Your genes would be a great contribution to "The Pool."

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, amigo.

[UniteFightBack]

13. Looks like this bakery always has a bun in the oven.

[Tom Rivers]

14. We have people like this in the southern U.S.

it's why democrats lose elections in that region

[theaocp]

16. Good thing there's a shortage

of children already born who need loving homes.

[obamanut2012]

19. just so gross

[DavidDvorkin]

20. This is excellent news

Because England is such a sparsely populated country.

[jmowreader]

21. I see a Monty Python sketch in the making

Let's just hope the mill doesn't close.

[Raine]

24. The older children I'll bet are the ones who

do the parenting just like in the Duggar family and most likely have no life of their own. IMO these people are mentally ill.

[JI7]

25. yup

[Mariana]

41. I noticed a pattern in large families in my family tree

back when there was no such thing as reliable birth control. The oldest daughters were likely to remain single. My guess is they'd already had quite enough of mothering, thank you very much, and had no desire to start doing it again.

[woodsprite]

45. My great aunt felt that way

She was the oldest of my great grandmothers 12 kids 2 died before their 2nd birthday). My grandparents worked the farm along with the older boys. I guess farming is why they aimed for a large family. Aunt Mabel took care of the younger ones and the babies. I’m very grateful she saved my grandmother from drowning in the creek one day. Ran to a bridge and caught hold of my grandmother’s hair bow.

Mabel married her cousin. They were best friends and neither one wanted any kids. They did adopt a niece when her mother died from a botched abortion. The father was only interested in keeping the boy and was going to put the daughter in an orphanage, but signed her over to them instead.

[NightWatcher]

26. I feel sorry for that middle kid. What's his name? Ah, who cares.

I bet they've had 23 and misplaced a couple of them over the years.

Anybody seen Danny?
Who?
Didn't we have a Danny?
I don't think so.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. The video is interesting; you get a look at the family and their home.

The kids look healthy and happy and the home is large and well kept.

So there's that.

[IcyPeas]

32. Must be nice having healthcare from the NHS....

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Yikes - they have four grandchildren older than at least their last two.

Even the Duggars didn't accomplish that.

[Blue_true]

34. Absolutely insane.

The planet is already over populated and that woman is popping out 21 babies.

[smirkymonkey]

39. This is excessive.

People need to control their fertility. 4 kids, fine. 21 kids, insane. There is a social and emotional cost to this kind of blind reproduction.

[Croney]

42. They claim only child benefits. What does that mean?

Maybe a couple hundred bucks per child? Times 21? 🤔

My 95-year-old mother is the last of 14 siblings. I myself have popped out a few kids and they've xeroxed themselves and those people have made additional copies. I have made too many people, but I can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[Charlotte Little]

43. Since someone was offended by the use of pop

I'll use the word squirt. No one needs to squirt this many babies out. Excessive breeding doesn't begin to describe it.

[whathehell]

48. Um, no..

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Squirting is way too easy -- .More like the dad's role.

[Crunchy Frog]

46. "Ooh, get that, would you Dierdre?"

[edbermac]

49. Geez hubby must have impregnated her right after each delivery