Woman Pregnant with 14th Child Will Keep Going
Until She Has Twins (Thank God for free
medical care!)
Sarah Foss, 39,
got pregnant at age 16 and was so traumatized by the birth, she swore
off kids for another 10 years. After having her second child in 1996,
Foss has gotten pregnant every year since then. Now Foss is pregnant
with her 14th child and vows to keep her OB-GYN busy, until he places a
set of twins in her arms.
The Derby, UK, "mum" says, "All I've ever wanted is twins or
triplets. It's my biggest wish, and I'm going to keep trying until I do
it. It would be fantastic. In fact, I won't stop trying until I've done
it. I love having babies - it's the most wonderful thing in the
world."
Foss swears that her children are not a bother at all.
She and her longtime live-in partner, Stephen Smith, 40, all live in a
three bedroom house. Smith works as a canal boat builder and Foss is a
stay-at-home mom but insists that they make ends meet by watching every
penny that comes in to the household.
Belt-tightening is not an
easy feat in the Foss-Smith household. Each week the couple averages
$1,000 on groceries alone--32 loaves of bread, 75 pounds of potatoes,
126 pints of milk, 36 rolls of toilet paper, three large boxes of
detergent, eight boxes of cereal.
The busy mom is also very anal
about keeping a spotless home. So every day Foss gets up at 4 a.m. to
make sure her family is not viewed by the neighbors as "living in a
pigsty and behaving as low-life scroungers who beg off the
state."
The couple's children sleep in movable bunkbeds and cots,
so that they can change them around at bedtime. Two of her children
sleep on an airbed. Foss says, that her household is "a squash and a
squeeze, but it's cozy. It's home."
Just
in case you're wondering what her children's names are (from youngest to
the oldest):
Patrick named after Sara's grandmother' s surname of
Patrick
Stephen -- named after his father
Malachai named after a character in the horror film,
Children of the Corn
Peppermint named after mints she craved
during pregnancy
Echo named after a group of
eco-campaigners who Stephen met during a job at work
Eli named after another character in the
film, Children of the Corn
Rogue named after a character in the film,
X-Men
Frodo named after a hobbit in the film,
The Lord of the Rings(my personal
favorite!)
Morpheus named after a character in film, The
Matrix
Artemis named after a book character,
Artemis Fowl
Blackbird named after a gathering of blackbirds which flew
onto Sara's lawn (I would kill my parents for naming
me this.)
Baudelaire named after the Baudelaire
orphans which featured in Lemony Snicket's film, A Series of Unfortunate
Events
Voorhees named after serial
killer, Jason Voorhees in the horror movie, Friday The
13th
Thank god
that there is a huge supply of shitty movies so that they can continue
to find names for their
progeny.
