九年有九个孩子的大家庭

patrickzhu · 发表于 2014-5-13 17:51:28

我们公司有一位电焊工，有九个孩子，被我们称为great dad，现在他老婆又怀孕了，第十个！
公司同仁除了佩服还是佩服。
今天Sunday Telegraph也有一个大家庭的报道，翻译出来给大家看。
我们九年有了九个孩子
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Big brood ... Trudy and Clint Hill with their nine children.
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
在过去的十年里，没有一年是浪费的，因为Trudy Hill一直在怀孕。
这位住在悉尼西边Penrith的母亲，令人惊奇地从2000年开始到现在已经生了9个孩子了。最小的孩子Nox才两个月大。这位母亲并没有打算停止继续要更多的孩子的想法。
她说：“我只是非常想要有很多孩子。”
“我很喜欢从怀孕生产到养育宝宝的过程体验。对我而言，真得是很上瘾，促使我一再怀孕生更多的孩子。”
今年32岁的Hill太太、他老公Clint Hill和他们的一大家孩子，住在South Penrith的一栋简朴的有五个卧室的房子里。
这对夫妇是虔诚的基督徒，引人注目的是他们平均每个晚上睡7个小时。
他们每日的固定家务有一天至少要洗两拨衣服，当有家庭集体外出的活动时，一半孩子要跟着妈妈另一半孩子要跟着爸爸，因为一大家子无法坐一辆车。
Hill太太说孩子们很少生病，平均一个孩子一年生病两次。
她说：“人们认为我们很了不起，但是其实我们只是普通人，正在做着很普通的事情。”
根据澳洲统计局的最新数据，在新南威尔士州有310个家庭有超过8个孩子。
Hill先生今年37岁，他说即使他并不想这样，但是从2005年他妻子再次怀上他们的儿子Zye开始，他总是小心翼翼地告诉别人他有一个大家庭有很多孩子。
Hill先生是减肥健身设备的设计者，他说：“我们忍受这些很多了。”
“周围的人们对我们的看法变得负面起来，从我们有第五个孩子开始我们就不在告诉别人了。人们通常会认为，”你们是怎么能够负担这一切的？但是这是很自然的事情。”
尽管这个家庭有这么多的孩子，但是令人惊奇地是每天早上所有的家务还是很井井有条。Hill先生说：“我过去经常是做做然后再想想 - 哦，我能早上替孩子们准备好出门的衣服 - 但是现在我们有太多孩子了，我已经没法再这样做了，因为会来不及。
“你得比你平常做事安排更有计划性才行。”
上学的孩子Fin，Cruize和Bronte每天早晨自己做早餐和午餐，然后帮忙他们的父母做清洁工作。
其他孩子然后各自在三张餐桌旁坐好吃早餐，他们的爸爸妈妈则给家里最小的两个孩子喂食。Hill太太说，她每个星期至少去健身两次这样可以缓解她的紧张情绪。
虽然她对目前的九个孩子的状况很满意，但是这位母亲还是想再要一个孩子。
“我心中有一部分说，也许再要一个吧“。Hill太太说：“也许未来九个月以后，我自己会再想要一个孩子，谁知道呢？因为我从来没有机会可以自己想要一个孩子。”
Hill的大家族：
1. Dad: Clint Hill, 37
Fitness equipment inventor
2. Mum: Trudy Hill, 32
Very busy full-time mum
3. Jett, 9
First born of the Hill clan
4. Cruize, 8
Born nine months after Jett
5. Bronte, 7
Born 16 months after Cruize
6. Reef, 6
Born 15 months after Bronte
7. Zye, 4
Born 16 months after Reef
8. Finn, 3
Born 14 months after Zye
9. Bay, 2
Born 14 months after Finn
10. Skyla, 1
Born 15 months after Bay
11. Nox, seven weeks
Born 12 months after Skyla

patrickzhu · 发表于 2014-5-13 18:49:34

We've had 9 kids in 9 years
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/kids-in-9-years/story-e6frewt0-1225896519021
By MIAWLING LAM
From: The Sunday Telegraph
July 25, 2010 12:00AM
IN the past decade, not one year has gone by when Trudy Hill wasn't pregnant.
Amazingly, the Penrith mother has carried nine children since 2000. The latest addition, Nox, arrived just two months ago - and she hasn't ruled out having more.
"I just fell in love with having kids," she said.
"I love that whole experience of giving birth and having a newborn baby. For me, that's really addictive and that's what keeps me going back and having more."
Ms Hill, 32, her husband Clint, and their brood live a modest, five-bedroom house at South Penrith.
The couple, who are practising Christians, remarkably average seven hours' sleep a night.
Their daily routine involves at least two loads of washing, while family outings require half the children to go with mum and the other half with dad because they're unable to squeeze into one car.
Ms Hill said sickness was a rarity, with each child ill only twice a year.
"People think we're amazing, but we're just normal people doing normal things," she said.
According to latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 310 families in NSW have at least eight children.
Mr Hill, 37, said that even though he would not have it any other way, he became wary of telling people about his growing family by the time his wife fell pregnant with son Zye in 2005.
"We were copping it so much," the fitness-equipment inventor said.
"People became very negative and we started not telling anyone by the fifth. People always think, 'How are you going to afford it?' but it becomes very natural."
Despite the large number of young children, the household is surprisingly well organised in the mornings. Mrs Hill said: "I used to always wing it a bit and think, 'Oh, I can get the kids' clothes out in the morning' but because we have so many now, I can't wing it any more because then we'd be rushing.
"You have to be more organised than you normally would be."
School-aged children Finn, Cruize and Bronte make their own breakfasts and lunches before they help their parents clean up.
The other children then sit down on one of the family's three dining-room tables for breakfast while mum and dad feed the youngest two.Ms Hill said she lowered her stress levels by hitting the gym at least twice a week.
And although she's comfortable stopping at nine children, she is tempted to try for one more child.
"A little part of me says, "Maybe one more'," she said. "Maybe nine months down the track, I might get clucky. Who knows? I've never had the opportunity to get clucky."