The biggest family of Britain welcomes child number 21
A British couple has taken many by surprise by further increasing the number of children in their already oversized family.
Tabloid newspaper the Sun said in a report on Saturday that Sue and Noel Radford, who are parenting what has been called the biggest family in Britain, had welcomed their 21st child Bonnie-Raye, earlier in the week.
“Some people decide to stop after two or three kids. We’ve made it after 21,” the father, Noel, 46, told the Sun.
“We’ve both decided we don’t want any more. Bonnie has completed our family,” said Noel’s wife, Sue, 43.
The delivery came on Tuesday after a 12-minute labor and the child weighing 3.75 kilograms.
Bonnie is three decades younger than Chris, the oldest of Radfords' children who is now 29. Sophie, 24, is the sole child of the family who has three children of her own.
Sue, the mother, said other children in the family were just thrilled to see their new sibling.
“They were all fighting over the first cuddle. It’s such a lovely moment when you bring a newborn home and the others are all lined up ready to hold her,” said the mother, who has spent some 800 weeks, more than 15 years, of pregnancy in the past 29 years.
She said, however, that Bonnie-Raye will be her last child.
“All the midwives at the hospital were asking if they would see us again next year and we both said: definitely not,” said Sue, adding, “The maternity clothes will be going in the bin shortly. I won’t miss being pregnant at all.”
The Radfords live in a 10-bed house in Morecambe, Lancashire, in northwest England. They have a bakery to support themselves while they also receive child credit from the authorities. The family manages on 18 pints of milk, four toilet rolls and three boxes of cereal a day while getting all children bathed in the evening takes some three hours.
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