On kids, twins and triplets

My younger cousin has six kids. That's not that common anymore but not rare either. The rare part is this. The first kids where a set of twin girls. Thirteen months later they had a set of triplet girls. Then 11 months after that they had the last child, a boy. So in just over 24 months they had six kids. Think of the cost/work!!! Six kids in diapers at one time. They had to have six car seats at the same time. Going anywhere was a major job to just get all of them into the car/suburban. It was lucky that he had/has a very good job. So they hired two people to help nanny when the kids where younger.

Side note. My cousin's wife came from a very devout Catholic family. He had to convert so they could be married. After the last child he went and got "fixed". His Mother-in-law was majorly POed at him for that. He put up with it for a while. Finally he told her, and the local Priest that was pushing it too that, if they wanted to make arrangements to personally cover the cost of any additional kids he would go get put back in 'Business". He said it was a funny thing that they shut right up and became a whole lot more civil. LOL By they way the girls are all teenagers now and very pretty. He is nervous. LOL

Consider <a href="http://rightwingnews.com/culture/18-years-ago-she-gave-birth-to-septuplets-youll-be-shocked-when-you-see-how-they-look-now/">7 kids in diapers</a>.

I have identical mirror twins. All I can say is whew! Lot's of work, but well worth it. Mine are 24. Both graduated from different colleges the same day hours apart. Yes, I made them both.

Went to high school with a family that consisted of two sets of twins--their parents got married, had the first set, and 10 months later had the second set. That was all they had for kids, but talk about "instant family"--going from no kids to four kids in 10 months! First set was girl and boy, second set was two girls.

When my brothers (the twins) were born in 1958, there were no disposable diapers. The baby bottles were still glass and had to be sterilized. It put our whole family into service caring for babies, doing laundry, and taking care of feeding equipment.
I was 12 1/2 and spent countless hours in a rocking chair with a squalling baby instead of spending time with my buddies. I remember it well.

I have a set of twins & my oldest daughter has a set of triplets. You talk about a LOT of work. My wife took a couple months off of work & took care of them during the day & then when I got home from work it was my turn. We had a pretty good system working together. When I got home about 6 my wife could do what ever she wanted until about 10. Sleep, grocery shop, what ever she wanted. Before we went to sleep we would agree on who would get up if one of the kids fussed. That way no arguing when you are half asleep. It was a lot of work & but we got through it.

I'm watching a show on TV right now called "Destination Truth". They are in Africa doing a show, and are talking to a farmer that has 25 children from 3 wives. Not one wife at a time, he has 3 full time wives. I wonder when that poor guy gets any sleep?

Our twin girls were born while I was writing my graduate school thesis, in addition to our two year old daughter at the time. My wife would take the night shift while I slept, I would get up at 7 AM and then take over while she slept until 4 PM or so, and then I would sit down and try to write for six hours. Then repeat the cycle. Once I defended my thesis, we packed up and moved across the continent with four month old twins and our two year old in tow to set up life in a new city in a new country where we didn't know a soul. It's amazing how strong a relationship becomes when there is no one else to rely on.

Friends and family said that one day we would look back and laugh about those times-it took a few years but they were right. Our girls are all independent young women now, and we really wouldn't want to change a thing about how we did things.

Amazing how efficient one becomes at times like that.

I have (had) 92 first cousins...(around 60 now surviving)....I figure I could have had about 125, since on each parental side, one male died as a teenager, and one female went to the convent. Then there are bro/sis marrying sis/bro, so some of us are double first cousins. My birth county has about 200 of us of the last name, but I just say I don"t get into 2-3-4th cousins. Yes, they must be related. My maternal aunt had 3 sets of twins, 2 sets surviving. Then I know of no other twins until our grandsons came 18 months ago.

I don't know if they had any twins but a local couple married 43 years had 21 children. I checked his obit for exact count. I know some of them.