[yarddog]

Thanks.

My maternal Grandmother had 13. They lost their first one as a toddler but raised the other 12 to adulthood.

My mother said her last words as she was dying was of that baby they lost.

[Tax-chick]

Your grandmother’s family must have enjoyed good health and good fortune. Even today, getting 13 children to adulthood is an achievement, although they’re more likely to die in a teenage auto accident than from measles as a toddler.

I have ten children. Oldest is 27, youngest is 6.

[right way right]

She was probably looking forward to seeing that baby.
You made me misty. My grandmother lost a little brother when she was a little girl.
She was very excited about seeing him in heaven when she was at her earthly end.

[Tax-chick]

According to Wikipedia, Susanna Wesley was the youngest of 25 children of her parents (no remarriages). It doesn’t say how many of her siblings survived infancy, but her mother, Mary White, must have had remarkable stamina.

[Vinnie]

My mother was one of sixteen.