Diagnosed sterile, woman gave birth to 13 children

Doctors strongly prohibited Russian woman Lilya Shevchik to bear babies, but at the age of 35 the woman already has 13 healthy children and plans to have even more. Now when Lilya’s happy children crowd together around her it makes her smile when she recollects how a gynecologist studied the results of her tests and stated that bearing babies would be lethal for her life. The woman came to the doctor soon after her marriage as her decision was to have many children in the family. Being herself a child from a family with eleven children Lilya could not imagine her life without babies. Her husband Vladimir also came from a family having ten children and did not mind to have many children either. So, in spite of the doctor’s prohibition and warning the woman decided to make an attempt and have babies.

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Now the family has seven daughters and six sons. The youngest baby came to the world three months ago and the oldest son is fourteen. In majority of cases, Lilya gave birth to a new baby every year. When doctors studied the results of the woman’s tests during her first pregnancy they were sure she would deliver an ill and defective baby. But contrary to the apprehension, Lilya gave birth to a healthy and strong boy whom the parents named Victor.

The family lived in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan where the father had no opportunity to earn much money. Vladimir is a constructor but there were no construction sites in the republic. By that moment the family already had five children. So, it was decided that Vladimir would go to Russia in search of a job to be able to earn money for the family. Lilya and the children went to Russia together with the father. The large family settled in the city of Vladimir where the father managed to find a proper job.

They had some money to buy a small house consisting of two rooms in the suburbs of the city. There was too little room for the big family in the house but Vladimir promised that he would work hard and the family would be able to enlarge the house. And the man kept his words. He began to work in a brigade making repairing in apartments and earned good money. The family felt their life was changing for the better.

In Russia, Lilya turned out to be a unique woman in maternity hospitals. She advised young mothers on nursing and feeding babies. The woman is always kind to young mothers asking for her advice as she knows that having babies is troublesome at the very beginning.

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