How big a family did you come from?

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I came from a family of 9…Mom had 2 babies that died during miscarriage.
Of the 7 living children…5 girls: ages 57,54,46,43,41 / 2 boys:ages 39 and 38.
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I have 10 children…I lost one baby thru miscarriage. Of our 9 living children there are 7 boys and 2 girls.
Ages: Boys…24,22,17,13,12,8,6.
Girls: 19 and 4.

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I was fortunate to be raised that it is God who should decide how many children married couples have. That it is such a miracle to help God populate heaven!
We were taught to trust in the Lord…whether we had no childen or 10…it was up to Him…that He being our Father in heaven would do what is best.
 
Mary Donahue:
I came from a family of 9…Mom had 2 babies that died during miscarriage.
Of the 7 living children…5 girls: ages 57,54,46,43,41 / 2 boys:ages 39 and 38.
😃
I have 10 children…I lost one baby thru miscarriage. Of our 9 living children there are 7 boys and 2 girls.
Ages: Boys…24,22,17,13,12,8,6.
Girls: 19 and 4.

Edited to add:
I was fortunate to be raised that it is God who should decide how many children married couples have. That it is such a miracle to help God populate heaven!
We were taught to trust in the Lord…whether we had no childen or 10…it was up to Him…that He being our Father in heaven would do what is best.
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It is very hard to think like that when month after month after year after year you are constantly dissappointed when you have failed to get pregnant. Nothing personal its just i know first hand what it is like. God Bless. Sue.
 
I am number 7 of 11. 6 girls and 5 boys. I grew up in a very Catholic community so large families were not unusual. As a kid I thought all families were big. If they weren’t then I figured the parents just weren’t done having babies yet.
 
Unfortunately, the closest we siblings have ever been was when, after my Confirmation, we rebelled against attending Mass - because our Father had quit going. As a result, I’m the only one who was Confirmed, #2 and 3 made their First Communion, and #4 is only Baptised. I led my younger siblings away from the Faith - my bad!

So Dad’s, keep going to Church as a family!!!
Even if you are having doubts, don’t show them to your children. Let God take care of the doubts - and you…
 
I have one younger sister, and my husband has one younger brother. He had another younger brother who died at birth (very premature). His parents always wanted more, but his mom had so many complications with her pregnancies that they had to abandon that dream. My parents on the other hand almost didn’t have my younger sister. Although we’re not very close I’m still glad I wasn’t an only child. My husband and I would like at least 3 kids, five would be great but it’s iffy since we’ll be living on a professor’s salary, with one of us, most likely him, homeschooling
 
Just me, and I wasn’t supposed to be here.

Mom & Dad married in '42, and promptly lost 3 during pregnancy. They were told not to expect to have any children. But I came along in '45, and am still around.

They tried to adopt, but Dad was career Air Force, and the Children’s Aid Society of Ontario made it very clear that they considered service families unfit adoptive parents. Psychologists; go figure. 😃

Blessings,

Gerry
 
the same thing with not allowing military families to adopt was still going on 20 years ago. I had a friend who was an only child and her parents weren’t able to have more after she was born. they wanted to adopt but were turned down because the dad was career air force. It’s a shame because they ended up smothering her and would have a much healthier parent-child relationship with her now if there had been at least one other child in the family. What a stupid rule!
 
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katie6:
Hi I am 3rd oldest of 12 We use to say all the names of the kids and then say on a seseme seed bun.Like the comercial for Mc Donalds I think. There is 2boys me(girl) 1 boy 1girl 3 boys 1 girl 2 boys and our precious princess Anne Marie. She is definitly the baby!!! We love her so much and she has her own fan club all of the 29 grandkids. She is actually leaving in July for a 1 year mission trip. We are reeally going to miss her. My husband came from a family of 5 3boys and 2 girls. We have six 5 boys and 1 girl( no she’s not the baby). When I was growing up we were the odd one’s in our parish. Only 2 other families like ours. I was embarrassed at the time, but now we love it and all our good friends and the cousins are all best buddies and everyone has someone to play with when we get together.
PS( I loved reading the 10.6 kids I thought that too…)
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I am the oldest of 12 children!
1-Me (Katie), 2-Jeff, 3-Mary, 4-Ellen, 5-Abagail, 6-Seth, 7-Jacob, 8-Samuel, 9-Jonathan, 10-Dorothy Rose, 11-Andrew, 12-Charles Albert. I am 21 and the baby will be 3 in December, so that puts us all into 17 1/2 years!

My fiancee is the oldest of 3, so we have a good chance of hitting in the middle somewhere, but neither of us limit God’s ability to give us what we need. I hope and pray that my fiancee and I will be blest by God in whatever way He sees fit.

I also can’t wait until the cousins can start playing back and forth, but the next generation has not yet arrived…🙂

God bless you all!
 
Now this is actually a complicated question for me. While I was growing up there were 4 of us. My mother also lost 5 as still births and one at age 13 when I was only 3. My parents separated and my father had two more children. Then after my Mom died at only 47 he remaried. There are 2 step-brothers that came with that marriage and then they had one more little girl. There was also a step-brother from the relationship my Dad was in after he left my Mom. Since David lived with us for a while, he counts too. So as you see it is a complicated issue. My Dad remarried the same month that I married. So I never really lived much with the others but at one time while I was in the army their were 7 boys and a girl at home. My sister and I were both away from home and married by then.
Debbie
 
Riabia,
That is funny about you and your sister. I went through the same thing with my oldest grandchild. I only have the two children who are 12 years apart. So when my oldest was pregnant her sister wanted her to have a girl. Of course Amber-Leigh wouldn’t cooperate with that. The day the ultrasound showed she was having a boy her sister quit talking to her. ( she was 5 at the time.) She only started talking to her sister again when Amber-Leigh promised to have a girl next time. Well the next time came about 6 years later and Amber-Leigh insisted that it was going to be a boy again. ( she wanted all boys) but God remembered her promise so my second grandchild was a girl.
Debbie
 
I am the oldest of five. At yesterday’s Mass, there was a baptism - the couples first child. Father said he hoped to baptize their 4th, 5th etc. children as well. He then said something to the effect of praising large families (I didn’t get all of it, it was in Spanish), asked how many in the congregation were 4th or later in their families. He said he was the 4th and if his mother had stopped after 2 or 3 like so many couples do today, that this parish would have been without its priest. 😃

Go Father. 👍
 
I am now 65 and was an only child. I wish I had had brothers and sisters and would never wish being an only child on anyone. My wife and I have 4 children, 3 living. Why did we have 4? Because that is what God gave us.
 
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Lance:
I am now 65 and was an only child. I wish I had had brothers and sisters and would never wish being an only child on anyone.
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I know exactly what you are talking about, Lance. I totally agree. We were blessed with 4 children too, but I lost my first one due to premature birth. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

:blessyou:
Annie
 
I’m #2 of 6 kids. My dad is #7 of 9 (no Star Trek jokes please) and my mom is #11 of 12

I have 92 first cousins.

My wife and I currently have 4 children, one of whom is due to be born in Jan.
 
I am #3 of 5 and my wife is #3 of 6. Talk about a middle child syndrome
 
I am the ninth of 14 kids. There are eight boys and six girls-though we aren’t kids anymore. My oldest brother turns 50 this year. I still find it amazing that my mother used to wake all of us up at 7 a.m. and we all got to school by 8. My husband and I have four kids.
 
I am the 4th in a family of 10. What a wonderful gift to be a part of a large family. But it is sad, because you don’t realize that till you are grown, and have your own.
 
I am the 3rd of 6 kids (5 girls, 1 boy). My mom also had a couple miscarriages. I loved growing up in a big family and I want a big family when I get married. My oldest sister has 4 (2 girls,2 boys) and my next to oldest has 2 (a girl and a boy). Family get togethers are a blast!
 
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Lizard:
I’m an only child and only grandchild. My mother is 30 years older than I am, and she is actually the person in my family closest to my own age. I would love to have siblings and/or cousins.
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I’m in a similar boat, only child, few cousins.
 
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