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Supermum determined to give her Docs said I’d never have kids now I’ve had TEN naturally

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So when she fell in love with her childhood sweetheart while she was still a schoolgirl she wanted nothing more than to start a family.

Louise recalled: “I had been having serious health problems, bleeding constantly for several months and I was eventually referred to hospital for scans.

“They revealed I had polycystic ovary syndrome quite badly.

“When we found out that conceiving naturally would be highly unlikely for us I was destroyed.

“So when I fell pregnant just two months later we both thought it was a miracle. I had no idea I would go on to have so many children.”

From a small family, Louise’s childhood was far from perfect.

She said: “I grew up with one brother and our parents split when we were young. We had a very unsettled childhood and were always the scruffy kids at school.

“I grew up far too quickly. I always remember thinking that when I had a family the house would be filled with love and the kids would have a chance to be kids.”

And once she got a chance to try her hand at being a mum, Louise was hooked.

“I remember first holding Bradley and just being so happy,” she recalled.

“I just loved him so much and I loved the feeling of caring for him. I knew straight away I wanted more but because of what the doctors said I thought he might be my only chance to be a mum.

“I came off the Pill, not thinking I would ever fall pregnant again and then when Bradley was 22 months, I fell pregnant again with Hallan.” With two young boys before her 20th birthday, Louise had more than enough on her p plate. But between nappy changes and feeds shesh daydreamed about giving birth to a baby girl to com complete her young family. By then she was married t o her high school b boyfriend, the father to all her children. And sure enough, despite warnings from medical profession­als that it was a pipe dream, along ca came Chelsea, now 11. Lou Louise said: “When I fell pregnant a thirdhi d time, I realised I really was meant to be a mum. I suffer from mild OCD, so the endless loads of washing and cleaning all came naturally to me and once you have three,hree, you might as well have four!”

And Louise’s attitude soon turned her into a supermum.m.

Ryley, 10, Frankie,kie, eight and Ashley, seven, followed before she took a break for a coupleuple of years.

But soon her r broodiness took over once more and Weslea, five, Poppy,py, three and Karlin, t wo, appeared in quickuick succession.

The newestwest addition, Keegan, gan, completes the bunch. nch.

People think the family are crazy,zy, going through 122 loaves of breadd and 20 pints off

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