Kateri and Jay
Schwandt, a Rockford, Michigan, couple who have 12 sons, welcomed their 13th boy to the world on Wednesday. Kateri,
40, gave birth a few days after her May 9 due date, according to ABC News. The
baby weighed about 9 lbs (4.08kg) and was 22 inches long.
“I just assumed we’d
have another boy because we know what we’re doing," she said at the
time." It turns out she was right.
The couples' other children
range in age from 1 1/2 to 22 years old. They named their 13th son
Francisco.
The
couple observes a tradition of waiting until birth to find out the sex of their
babies. Although Jay told ABC that " having one more boy is pretty
cool," he had hoped for a girl.
“I’ve
experienced all the boy stuff, as long as we are having all these children, it
would be really neat to experience the other side.”
Kateri
saw things differently.
“Why change things up?” She
said “At this point, at this stage in the game, a little girl, we’d have to
re-learn everything.”
They have
a 15 seater van to take their children everywhere and fortunately their oldest
son just got his driver's license so he can help out with driving the children
to places.
The odds
of a couple having 13 sons in a row are about 1 in 8,000, according to CNN --
roughly the same chances as those of having natural triplets.
The Dad
said even he desperately wants a girl, they don't intend to try for another
child anytime soon.
Congratulations
to them.
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