
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."
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
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
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


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By: Bonnie on 11/25/2009 2:34PM
WOW, I feel bad for the kids, being squeezed in this small house.and for their names, poor dears. maybe before she has anymore they should find a bigger house. or make Voorhees get a job.( according to my math if she is 39 then she was 16 when she had him/her that was in 1986, so he/she is 23)
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By: crumbs444 on 11/25/2009 2:28PM
"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."".........
what a joke, she doesn't want to be seen as a scrounger who begs off the state yet that exactly what's she doing to the tune of 10s of thousands a year.
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By: k on 11/25/2009 2:31PM
Typical idiot having children at age 16 when you should be babysitting someone elses children and learning how to get a job. I wonder how many different fathers there are? None will see college due to their role models and the fact that free schooling for the poor will be faded out and not soon enough, I might ad, it is one of the reasons CA is going belly up. If she had half a brain she would know that statistically woman over 30 are more apt to have multiple births....Nature saw it wise not to give her twins because then she would want triplets..Loser. No retirement for them. This idiotic, wreckless behavior will only stop when the gov't stops giving these people free food, healthcare, education etc... The more kids you have the higher your taxes should be
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By: Jacquie on 11/25/2009 7:12PM
These people are in the UK where education is FREE.
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By: Sashaisme on 11/25/2009 7:50PM
I like the names she has chosen for her children!
I especially like the name Baudelaire...
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By: Rex on 11/25/2009 2:32PM
I see a reality show in making.
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By: howecrowd on 11/25/2009 2:31PM
That they have so many children isn't of much concern, in my opinion. What personally upsets me (not that it's my business at all) is that they name the children names that I wouldn't even name my pets. They are setting their children up to be teased and disrespected. They themselves show disrespect by naming them such names. Knowingly naming your child after a serial killer, even one that's just in a movie...wow. Very disturbing...again, my just my opinion.
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By: poppy on 11/25/2009 2:33PM
Kids will be so tramazied by their names they won't mind that their Mom is totally nuts. This couple need to be clipped.
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By: Kim on 11/25/2009 2:41PM
Good Lord, imagine if all females were this lazy, dumb and selfish. She is a piece of trash of a parent.Finally people like this will soon be shunned, they should not be given jobs, they need to learn that society will not tolerate these ingrates anymore
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By: Candice on 11/25/2009 2:35PM
What an idiot. It's amazing how some of the dumbest people in the world have the most children. Id love to see a well to do genius have that many....
If she had any intelligence whatsoever she would know that twins are often a product of genes. Maybe she should have picked a partner with a background of twins in the family? Or... if she planned on having that many why didnt she just get the fertility treatments that cause you to have multiples? I guess she "dreams for" identical twins. Wow, the stupidity amazes me.
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