Summer fun food and drink - Let`s have babies - that would be fun · Friday July 25, 2008 by colin newell
Romanian immigrant Livia Ionce has broken a British Columbia record — she’s the province’s most fecund woman in 20 years.
Livia and hubby Alexandru became new parents of their 18th baby, Abigail, on Tuesday. The Abbotsford couple’s 17 other children range in age from 20 months to 23 years old. Wow.
Photo above – In Romania, in the sixties, a woman’s ability to produce many strong offspring was measured in her ability to levitate mice deer – This phenomenon, known as the Flippening was demonstrated at an early age with Livia with her ability to levitate transport trucks… 3 at a time…
Abigail adds to a current line-up of 9 girls and 8 boys… uhm – making 10 girls and 8 boys. A youthful 44 year old Livia muses, “The girls in the house said they are happy that they continue to outnumber the boys, but it may not be the end of the story.” And concluding – “Maybe it’s the last, but I’m not sure.”
In the Ionce family, Mother’s Day is obviously more like Christmas than the traditional hallmark moment normally reserved for less prolific women. And when you do the math, it equates to a household birthday party, on average, every 2 and 1/2 weeks. More hallmark moments, more presents. You might say the giving never ends in this family.
Andrea and I are big fans of Jon and Kate makes Eight on TLC (The future of video entertainment – TV cameras in every house…) but these numbers are staggering.
My mother actually had a girlfriend (growing up in Montreal) who was one of 12 kids – Her mother was 40 when she had her last child – and there might have been more but her husband was tragically run over by a truck driven by a mysterious and never-identified woman – Hmmm. Makes you think doesn’t it?
Oh well – for all the thousands of couples (like us) that eschew a contribution to the gene pool, there are hundreds of families like the Ionce`s that fill in the gaps. Bless their hearts – all 20 of them.
Summer food fun and drink - enjoying friendships
Yikes. One of my aunts had 10 children and was told by her doctor to “stop getting pregnant.” On the other hand, I told my family and friends that I was only getting pregnant once — the only way we would have more than one child would be if that pregnancy resulted in multiples. It didn’t. Now I get scolded for not having more children. Sigh.
— Cheryl Jul 26, 09:36 am #
Bless you cheryl. I read somewhere
that immigrants tend to have more children, and their children tend to have less. It was true with my grandmother who had 9 children, my father had 6 and none of my brothers and sister have more than 3 children. Of our children, over half have no children, only one has 3. At this rate our entire branch of the family should hit zero population growth by the next generation. Don’t know if the planet can take much more of this. (and by the way, isn’t that a Pudu in the picture?)
— jeanie Jul 26, 03:15 pm #
That is a mouse deer Jeanie – Pudu are a very different creature than this.
— Colin Newell Jul 26, 04:31 pm #
My mother was the youngest of 17 children, 15 of which survived, and her mother died at the age of 43. Included in that count of 17 was one set of twins. Nothing like a good catholic family immigrating from Russia!
— Doug Jul 26, 08:29 pm #
Oh, I knew I saw that before! And
ditto Doug, that thing about Russia.
— jeanie Jul 26, 08:38 pm #