If you thought you had your hands full, spare a thought for the biggest family in the UK who are expecting their 20th child this September.
Busy mother Sue Radford, from the reality TV show 16 Kids and Counting, made the announcement on Instagram on Thursday.
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The Radford family, from Lancashire, was flooded with congratulations after sharing their news on a chalk board with a baby scan.
“Congratulations! Looking forward to the ’20 Kids and Counting’ episode,” said one follower.
“Wishing you a happy healthy pregnancy,” said one commenter.
Another added: “You both are truly amazing and inspiring parents.”
Noel and Sue Radford have had nine girls and 10 boys. Imagine how hard it is to come up with new names?
They are parents to Phoebe, eight months old, one-year-old Hallie, Casper, four, Oscar, five, Tillie, six, Max, eight, Josh, nine, 10-year-old Aimee, Ellie, 11, James, 13, Katie, 14, 15-year-old Millie, and 16-year-old Luke.
And five grown-up offspring – Daniel, 18 Jack, 19, Chloe, 21 Sophie, 23 and Christopher, 27.
The pair also had stillborn, Alfie, in July 2014.
Sue Radford, 42, fell pregnant with her eldest child Christopher at 14 years old.
She is now also a grandmother to three grandchildren.
The reality TV star family run a bakery, Radford’s Pie Company, in Heysham.
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I always feel a bit sorry for the older kids in these very large families. They're expected to pitch in with considerably more chores/child caring from a young-ish age than they would have in a smaller family, and are effectively losing out on their own childhoods to help their parents out.
Don't be so judgmental, you surely can't know what you are claiming the older kids are going through. What you claim happens in small families too and older kid loses childhood cause parents are immature, so no reason big family parents can't be able to manage and get help by employing a nanny and other help without forcing older kids to do all the chores. I have actually seen that happen 1st hand in few bigger families.