Britain's biggest family has grown once again with the arrival of their 22nd child. Sue Radford, 45, and her husband Neil, 49, welcomed a baby girl on Friday, April 3, after a 10-hour labour at Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The newborn, weighing 7lb, is their 11th daughter and has not yet been named.
Sue, who had her first child at age 14, has now spent more than 800 weeks of her life pregnant. She described giving birth during the coronavirus crisis as the scariest of all her deliveries. 'I was so worried that Noel wouldn't be allowed to stay with me,' she told The Sun. 'It was the strangest birth yet but by the end of it I would say it was actually one of the best experiences I have had.'
The couple cannot settle on a name and are unable to register the baby due to the pandemic. Newborns must usually be registered within 42 days in person, but all registrations have been postponed because of Covid-19. Father Noel had a vasectomy after their ninth child but reversed it shortly afterwards.
The Radfords' other children are Christopher, 30, Sophie, 26, Chloe, 24, Jack, 22, Daniel, 21, Luke, 19, Millie, 18, Katie, 17, James, 16, Ellie, 15, Aimee, 14, Josh, 12, Max, 11, Tillie, nine, Oscar, eight, Casper, seven, Alfie, five, Hallie, four, Phoebe, three, Archie, two, and Bonnie, 17 months. The family runs a bakery and lives in a 10-bedroom house, formerly a care home, in Morecambe, Lancashire.
