A woman with 15 KIDS has revealed she is pregnant with her 16th child and won’t rule out having even more children.
Patty Hernandez, 38, and her husband Carlos, 37, live with their gigantic brood in a five-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, which includes a nursery with five cribs.
The couple spend a whopping $500 a week on groceries and diapers and are shopping for a new vehicle as they have outgrown their 16-seater bus.
Of the 15 kids, there are five boys and ten girls, and six of the children are sets of twins, which run in Carlos’s family.
All the children have names beginning with the letter ‘C’, in honour of their father, who works as a floor cleaner to support his large household.
Carlos Jr, 12, Christopher, 11, Carla, nine, Caitlyn, nine, eight, Celeste, seven, Cristina, six, Calvin, five, Catherine, five, Carol, four, Caleb, three, Caroline, three, Camilla, two, Charlie, one and Crystal, four months – they will be joined by a baby girl due in May 2021.
Patty made the news in 2019 for her large family but she has since had two more children – Charlie who was born in May 2019, and Crystal Abigail who arrived in the midst of the pandemic in April this year.
Despite admitting that raising so many children can be stressful, the mom-of-15 is happy to have more kids.
She said: “It is a bit more stressful and difficult with a newborn.
“The babies are always crying and I have to take care of them.
“But it is a blessing, we enjoy it.
“We have left everything to God so whatever God wants to give us we will be happy.
“We don’t use contraception.
“It’s always crazy at our house.”
Patty has spent over a decade pregnant having given birth to 15 babies since 2008.
“I’m so happy when I’m pregnant.
“Around three months after I have a baby I usually get pregnant again,” she said.
Patty added that having so many children creates a lot of housework but she is already training the older children to chip in.
“Right now I have a thousand clothes to wash – that’s at least five hours of folding clothes every two days.
“I do laundry at least four times a week
“When the kids play, they often leave toys on the floor so I need to clean that up too.
“I try to give them a daily routine to clean up after themselves. They have their own chores.
“The older one makes his own pancakes sometimes, but most of the time I am the one doing the cooking.”
Patty and Carlos love their big family, and are endlessly amused by the attention they receive.
“People ask me all the time, ‘are they all yours?’
“Everybody’s amazed when they find out how many kids I have, especially because I’m such a petite person.
“I never thought I’d have so many babies.”