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Amazing supermum, 29 has 14 daughters but says: I won’t give up until we have a son

- By Gerladine McKelvie and Lucy Laing

AUGUSTINA Higuera is proud to be a mother to 14 – at the tender age of 29.

Even more mind-blowing is the fact she beat odds of 500,000 to one to give birth to a THIRD set of twins two months ago.

But the Texan supermum is less thrilled that against all odds, all of her children are girls – and she has vowed to keep going until she has given husband Jose, 30, a son.

She said: “We both really, really want a boy. We’d be over the moon, so we will keep trying.

“We’re besotted with the girls but Jose is outnumbere­d and it would be nice to even things out. I’m lucky that I enjoy being pregnant. I’ve never had any major problems so it’s not a big stress for me.

Blessed

“I’ve had so many girls I’m not sure what I’d do with a son. I just know I’d be blessed to have one. He and Jose would have an incredible bond. I hope I can give him that. I have no upper limit on how many children I’d have. I’d have another ten if it meant having a boy.”

When Augustina gave birth to her second set of twins, Hailee and Braelee, less than t wo years ago, doctors joked she was more likely to win the lottery than to have another multiple pregnancy. But she conceived youngest children Bella and Isabella weeks later.

Shortly after their birth she did 42 loads of washing in 24 hours. She makes eight different meals a day and takes her children to school in a minibus. She gets little more than two hours of sleep a night – but Augustina wouldn’t change a thing.

She said: “It’s chaos looking after 14 girls but we wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve always wanted to be a mum. When I was younger I spent a lot of time looking after my little brother and sister. Although twins run in my family, I never expected I’d have three sets. I know we’re blessed.” Augustina, from Paris, Texas, got pregnant the first time she had sex – with a boyfriend who was also a teenager. She said: “I was shocked and terrified. I was so young and I didn’t know what to do. I’m a Christian, so abortion was never an option. “And we were very lucky as both sets of parents supported us.” First daughter Belicia, 15, was soon followed by Nyelli, 13, Liliana, 12, and Vanessa, 11. Augustina said: “My older girls were not planned. “Every time I got pregnant I was shocked. I tried all contracept­ion Chance of one mum having three sets of twins

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