Today I found out that the record for most babies born to one woman is 69. Yes, you read that correctly 69!
Who was this amazing woman with apparently a womb of steel and a vagina her husband just couldn’t say no too? We don’t really know. (anti-climactic I know) Her husband is the one who’s name has lived on because of her crazy baby making skills. (feminists of the world unite!) She was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev a peasant from Shuya, Russia who lived from 1707-1782. We can only speculate how many fire safety ordinances he violated by housing all his progeny in his little peasant sized hovel. Presumably, at some point they also had to choose to feed on the weak ones in order to provide food for the strong.
How did she manage this feat given most women only have about 30-ish years of baby making ability? She gave birth to sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets; so basically a veritable baby making factory who scoffs at “one at a timing” it. Amazingly, 67 of her children survived infancy. No word on whether either of her breasts could say the same.
Now, let’s just take a step back here. She was the “first wife” of Feodor Vassilyev. Seeming to imply he married again; polygamy was not generally practiced at that time in Russia. So we can assume he was only married to one lady at a time. So this guy goes out; shuns wearing tighty whities (presumably); gets married; invests all his money in a baby naming book; then apparently takes every second his wife isn’t pregnant as a personal affront to his manhood; then she presumably kills herself (I mean really, wouldn’t you?) and he then somehow manages to swindle another woman into wanting to be his wife and take on raising his kids? Can you imagine remembering all 67 of their names? Especially considering that woman would also need to deal with the fact that they came in identical sets. I don’t know about you, but my parents have to go through every one of my siblings names before they can correctly say mine when they want to get my attention. That must have taken forever in that family.
Then of course, after old Feodor Vassilyev swindles her into becoming his second wife, he presumably decided to use her vagina as a clown car too. *shudders*
The really amazing thing of it is that with the 67 surviving kids, if each of them had 2 kids (a low number for back then, but we’ll be conservative here) and each of their kids had 2 kids and so on, and we assume about 25-ish years between generations. Then this couple currently has around 70,000 descendants!
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This article is poorly written. That is all.
The above comment is poorly written, lacks examples, and isn’t constructive. That is all.
I don’t really see how that comment is poorly written, here are the examples you wanted though:
“Feminists of the world unit!” Should be unite.
“That must have taken forever in that family.” Shouldn’t be in it’s own sentence it should be after a comma or a semi-colon.
Also the attempts at humour aren’t funny. You should have stuck to just telling us the facts because it’s a pretty interesting article really.
That is all.
Something tells me Russian families tend to be large, considering my great grandfather immigrated from Russia and was one of 29 children. His father had two wives- one that gave birth to 15 children, the other to 14 children. I believe his family had a farm or such.
Good Read. I’ll look forward to your next piece
Great Read. I’ll look forward to your next article
I think my daughter is doing something similar. Good luck to you.
I think your mom is doing something similar.
“Also the attempts at humour aren’t funny.”
Maybe to you. You must remember, though: humor is subjective. What isn’t funny to you may be funny to others, and vice versa.
Do not act like your comedy tastes are fact, because they’re not; they’re opinion.
That is 2 meny Kids how whould you take care of All OF THEM
well…i started reading the comments above…but lost taste after comment three so anyway…
i liked it. it was informative and didn’t put me to sleep at the same time!
(hates reading)
i found out about this miracle woman in biology class so i was like…hmm….why not use my pc time wisely?
anyway…who cares what the control freaks above think? (no offense to anyone) i suck at writing too!
=] ‘that is all’