Supermum: I haven't ruled out baby no 15
Oh God it exhausts me just looking at the photo,Peace be with you all
When Linda Green turns up at the maternity hospital, midwives treat her as one of the family.
Which is hardly surprising, since she has had no fewer than 14 children of her own.
Mrs Green, 45, has spent ten-and-a-half years of her life pregnant
The ages of her sons and daughters range from two to 25 - and she also has two grandchildren.
But she sees nothing unusual in her hectic daily routine of cooking and cleaning, nursery and school runs.
"It really does not bother me," she said at home in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton. "It has just become normal. I always wanted a big family, with three or four children, but then they just kept coming."
Mrs Green and her husband Graham, an engineer, had daughter Kelly in 1980. Since then she has given birth to Stacey, 23, Gavin, 21, Melissa, 19, Kim, 17, Chantelle, 15, Ben, 14, Oliver, 12, Portia, 11, Macauley, ten, Preston, seven, Octavia, five, Blake, four, and Ellesse, two.
Eleven of them were born at New Cross Hospital, but on three occasions Mrs Green failed to make it to the maternity ward.
Chantelle made a surprise appearance after her mother visited the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Oliver arrived on the kitchen floor and Portia came into the world while mum was taking a bath.
"With Chantelle, I got up to visit the bathroom and when Graham came in to check on me I was holding a baby," said Mrs Green, who used to work in a shop but gave it up to be a full-time mother.
Dashing around supermarket
The Greens have lived in the same detached house since they were married 26 years ago. It is worth about £200,000 and the family paid off the mortgage when Mr Green was made redundant from his engineering job at BT a few years ago and received a settlement.
The house has six bedrooms and a ground-floor room converted into a bedroom for Mrs Green and her 48-year-old husband, who has chronic asthma and arthritis and cannot go upstairs.
The four eldest children have moved out but the rest all share the remaining bedrooms. Before her local branch of Asda dropped its 24-hour opening, Mrs Green would often be seen dashing round the deserted aisles at 2am for the mammoth weekly shop.
Now she goes to the supermarket four times a week and spends at least £60 on each trip.
"It can be hectic and hard to make ends meet but we manage - there are lots of buy-one-get-one-free offers I take advantage of," she said.
Mrs Green is lucky to get five hours' sleep a night but says her life is not all hard work.
The family regularly go on day trips, and summer holidays are often spent in Wales, getting around in their seven-seat people carrier and their son Gavin's car. The high hopes the Greens had for their children are coming to fruition. Kelly is a talented hairdresser, Stacey is a primary school teacher and Gavin is studying at Birmingham University to become a teacher.
Mrs Green said she could not have managed over the years without the help of her family, in particular her parents Brenda and John Powell, who live five miles away.
And she admitted she has not ruled out baby number 15.
"I would like another but nothing is planned yet," she said. "We will have to wait and see."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=356280&in_page_id=1770
When Linda Green turns up at the maternity hospital, midwives treat her as one of the family.
Which is hardly surprising, since she has had no fewer than 14 children of her own.
Mrs Green, 45, has spent ten-and-a-half years of her life pregnant
The ages of her sons and daughters range from two to 25 - and she also has two grandchildren.
But she sees nothing unusual in her hectic daily routine of cooking and cleaning, nursery and school runs.
"It really does not bother me," she said at home in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton. "It has just become normal. I always wanted a big family, with three or four children, but then they just kept coming."
Mrs Green and her husband Graham, an engineer, had daughter Kelly in 1980. Since then she has given birth to Stacey, 23, Gavin, 21, Melissa, 19, Kim, 17, Chantelle, 15, Ben, 14, Oliver, 12, Portia, 11, Macauley, ten, Preston, seven, Octavia, five, Blake, four, and Ellesse, two.
Eleven of them were born at New Cross Hospital, but on three occasions Mrs Green failed to make it to the maternity ward.
Chantelle made a surprise appearance after her mother visited the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Oliver arrived on the kitchen floor and Portia came into the world while mum was taking a bath.
"With Chantelle, I got up to visit the bathroom and when Graham came in to check on me I was holding a baby," said Mrs Green, who used to work in a shop but gave it up to be a full-time mother.
Dashing around supermarket
The Greens have lived in the same detached house since they were married 26 years ago. It is worth about £200,000 and the family paid off the mortgage when Mr Green was made redundant from his engineering job at BT a few years ago and received a settlement.
The house has six bedrooms and a ground-floor room converted into a bedroom for Mrs Green and her 48-year-old husband, who has chronic asthma and arthritis and cannot go upstairs.
The four eldest children have moved out but the rest all share the remaining bedrooms. Before her local branch of Asda dropped its 24-hour opening, Mrs Green would often be seen dashing round the deserted aisles at 2am for the mammoth weekly shop.
Now she goes to the supermarket four times a week and spends at least £60 on each trip.
"It can be hectic and hard to make ends meet but we manage - there are lots of buy-one-get-one-free offers I take advantage of," she said.
Mrs Green is lucky to get five hours' sleep a night but says her life is not all hard work.
The family regularly go on day trips, and summer holidays are often spent in Wales, getting around in their seven-seat people carrier and their son Gavin's car. The high hopes the Greens had for their children are coming to fruition. Kelly is a talented hairdresser, Stacey is a primary school teacher and Gavin is studying at Birmingham University to become a teacher.
Mrs Green said she could not have managed over the years without the help of her family, in particular her parents Brenda and John Powell, who live five miles away.
And she admitted she has not ruled out baby number 15.
"I would like another but nothing is planned yet," she said. "We will have to wait and see."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=356280&in_page_id=1770
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Still has not beaten my husbands grandmother, she had 22 if you can believe that.
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