Ex-polygamist Compares "My 5 Wives" and "Sister Wives" Reaction to Season 2
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- In this eye-opening video, Sam, a former polygamist, delves into the world of reality TV by comparing the shows "My 5 Wives" and "Sister Wives." Drawing from personal experience and keen observation, Sam offers unique insights into the portrayals of polygamous lifestyles on television. Discover the similarities, differences, and hidden truths behind these popular series as Sam separates reality from entertainment. Whether you're a fan of the shows or curious about polygamy, this comparison will provide a fascinating perspective you won't want to miss.
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We are Lutheran and my Mom and Grandma were pregnant at the same time. My uncle is 3 weeks older than me so it happens in regular families too. I loved it growing up as I always had a friend to play with at my Grandparents house! It felt like we were more like cousins rather than uncle and niece.
How many siblings did your mom have?
My my oldest nephew is six months older than me
My mom is same age as her oldest niece, my grandma and her oldest daughter’s pregnancy were within months. Women just had babies well into their 40s and married very young because they had to. - so they were born in 1932. Catholic marriages.
My Mom was the oldest and has 3 younger brothers and a sister who passed away 3 days after birth whom I’m named after.
I myself have 9 living kids. 2 miscarriages. My last pregnancy was twins. My oldest daughter was pregnant while I was pregnant with the twins. My grandson was born a month later. It may be common in polygamy but it's not all that uncommon in larger monogamous families either.
I was 23 when I got pregnant with my second child. When I told my mom her reaction struck me as off. Not long after she told me that she thought she might also be. I thought it was hysterical. Kept teasing her that maybe we could end up in the hospital at the same time. She didn't find my jokes at all funny. As it turned out she wasn't pregnant. She was happy, I was disappointed. 😂
Neither of us were in a polygamous relationship.
I’m off
I had twins 9 months after my daughter had a son because babies are contagious lol
The point Sam made @23:46 is what Robyn should've done if she actually cared about Kody's other marriages.
Exactly right. Robyn may not have directly demanded the unequal treatment, but she was always open to accepting the "goodies. " (Usually in the guise of, "I can't help it if we have a good relationship. ") Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should she ever have accepted more than her 1 week per month, or have allowed Kody into her bedroom after he leaves another wife after a fight. That's what mistresses do. She should have sent him back to work it out rather than use her as an escape from working on his other marriages.
So I'm also from the AUB, and I think when you make more of a slow shift out of a high demand religion, usually when you have many wives and children, you hang onto some of those rituals for a while, because it gives you comfort and a sense of direction. It's very difficult to go through a massive faith crisis/transition, let alone when you have kids and you're trying not to destabilize their world so much and cause too much trauma, because kids thrive on stability and predictability. It's possible if it were just Brady and a wife, they would be like meh, screw it. But when you have kids it's different, and you see the value in certain rituals more. It's important to find replacements to those rituals so your kids aren't left reeling and confused.
The reaction of Nonie’s son was similar to Hunter’s reaction on SW. I think both boys realize the financial impact when yet another sibling is added to the family. That’s why I think that the kids (especially the older ones) are sometimes more realistic than the adults in polygamous families.
I’d love to know more about the legal side of leaving these groups in regard to having to “leave everything behind.” Does this include a home the family may have built and owned? Does it include having to leave vehicles? Personal affects & mementos? Is everything considered owned by say the FLDS Church? Is there any legal recourse for leaving members?
I watched the show back when it aired, and remember reading a magazine article that said the family decided not to continue the show due to some kind of safety concern, perhaps legal. Anyone else remember that?
Not sure if it’s what the article was referring to but around that time, Rosemary came forward on her blog about being molested as a child by her father Lynn A. Thompson, who was the leader of the AUB from 2014-2021.
My husband's aunt and uncle in Massachusetts had 9 kids. The last was born the same week their oldest daughter had her first baby. 😊
I would love for you guys to do a video about the reasons why people who are on missions were not allowed to contact their family except for a couple of days a year. This is very "culty" in that if your communication is so regulated, that's the organization working very hard to control you.
I wonder about that too. I got blacklisted by the missionary folks because two young men showed up and did their thing, talking. They arrived at dinner time and I invited them to eat. It turned out that they came every other Wednesday and ate burgers and watched football and so on. I offered them my phone to call, but they declined and said it was not allowed. Anyway.. one day a grown up showed up with them and ... that was the end. I only saw the boys one more time, so they could return tupperware ( I sent them home with food ) and it was near xmas so I gave them gift cards. I had grown very fond of those kids. We never saw another missionary and it has been a very long time.
Brady did a guest appearance on his nephew's podcast and it was really insightful. He is very well spoken. The podcast is called "Polygonometry." Josh did one too!
Thank you so much!
I’m ex-IBLP and it’s super common for moms and daughters to be pregnant at the same time. I think any Quiverfull family has a good chance of being pregnant together.
The 19 Kids and Counting mom was pregnant when her DIL was pregnant. The IBLP is a group you should review.
They used to have a TH-cam channel called Brady and wives but they haven't uploaded anything to it in years.
I have a half-sister that is 20 years younger than me. She is between my first and second son in age. It felt more like having a nice, than a younger sister, because she was close in age to my own children.
My grandma was in the same class as her uncle. The teacher told them they shouldn't lie. Finally mom straightened it out, grandma was her daughter, the boy was her brother. In the mid 1960s the neighbor across the street was pregnant with her 3rd child when her daughter was having her 1st. These experiences were not with LDS families. Though I do know LDS families, in the late 1900's that "mom" was still has children while their older kids were having children. I may have some Catholic friends in the same situation. There are still some extra religious Christians that fall into the same category with mom & and older child being pregnant together.
My grandparents had 16 children. All single births. I was the first daughter of the fourth child. There were 5 grandchildren born before me. I was the first born after my grandmother had her last child. Monogamous. The siblings love each other dearly, but they were starving growing up. They were not excited to see new babies from probably the 5th. They were hungry. They went to work very young to feed their little brothers and sisters.
I think it was impossible for Kody to be a real leader to the family. He seemed so chaotic or put too much responsibility on the wives
My mama was pregnant with me at the same time as my oldest sister was pregnant with my nephew. He's 6 months older than me. My brother and his wife had already had a daughter about 2 years before I was born. No polygamy or anything. My mama thought she was going through menopause 😂 surprise it was me 😂
I have the same situation but I’m 6 months older than my niece 😆
My great grandma was born in 1906, her husband was at least a decade older than her, but died when I was five so I don’t have many memories of him. My grandfather, her second that survived infancy, was born in 1925. Several pregnancies did not go full term or children died in infancy. Her youngest and eighth surviving child was born in 1948, six weeks before my father was born. They (my great grandparents) were typical poor country people of the time. The only unusual thing about my story is the secondary infertility my grandmother had, as she also came from a large family and never had any reason to believe she would not produce the same.
My uncle and I are 9 months apart and graduated high school together! People used to be so confused when I introduced him as my uncle when we were growing up. 😂 The sibling that’s just older than him (2nd youngest uncle) and my oldest cousin were born in the same year as each other also, but that cousin is 6 months older than our uncle and 5 years older than the youngest uncle.
The Chile story made me wonder... Isn't the mission more of a bad experience to make you want to go back to your community at home and never even think of leaving again? Might that be the reason why they seem to make it as miserable of an experience as possible?
It kind of remembers me of the Amish Rumspringa, although they are more open about the purpose of it: Go out into the world, experience how bad it is, and you'll come running back.
My huge mexican family is a mix of catholics and protestants. My uncle despite being only 4 years older than my dad had his kids in his early 20s and my dad had my brother and I in his early and mid 40s. I'm the third youngest of my first cousins and was sentient when most of my 2nd and 3rd cousins were born in the early 2000s.
Me and my mom are not religious she was 18 when she had me-but we were pregnant at the same time twice. The first time I miscarried by my mom have a healthy baby boy who is 14 now and the second my brother was stillborn but I gave birth to a healthy girl who is 11 now.
When i was 21 i found out i was pregnant. I dont have a good relationship with my dad but thought he should know (his first grandchild). I told him i was pregnant and then he told me his wife (my step mom) was also pregnant. They had their daughter on july 19th and i had my daughter july 21st. So just a couple days apart. Also should add that was my step moms first child. She was 42 years old.
So I’m from the aub. My grandpa was a forum leader. I know that there is a “Quorum of the 12 & a leader” I’m not exactly sure if there is really the 70’s but in the different areas where we are located there are different bishopric and their following council men.
There was a family on my mission who had 12 children, and they had a combined birthday party for their youngest child and their second oldest child’s child, who were the same age!
I had a friend who married at 20 and her mother was pregnant 8 months standing in the receiving line She had an unexpected change of life baby. It was an embarrassment for both despite her parents having a long term solid marriage The wedding pictures were bizarre and has brought up laughs years later when the pictures were shared at family gatherings. They are non practicing Catholics
It seems to be somewhat common in fundamentalist sects of several groups that don’t endorse polygamy but do believe in God’s birth control. I believe a couple of the Duggar Daughters-in-law mothers have had children at the same time as their mothers.
I was wondering if Sam is able to ask his father how it was/is making sure to give each wife "equal" attention.
My mom had me in 1958, the same year that my oldest sister graduated and then married. My nephew was born 11 months after me. There were a total of 5 children in my immediate family.
I wonder if the production company urged the kids to say they don’t like having a new baby in the family. They did the same thing with the brown oldest kids, when Robyn was pregnant.
Like several others here my family is Lutheran, and my grandmother was born an auntie. One niece is a few weeks older than her and they were raised next door to each other like close cousins. I guess it's common in big Lutheran farm families.
This happened a lot in the 70s in large families
My mother had me 8 months before my sister had my niece. My mother was 40 when she had me, and 18 when she had my sister. My mother said my sister cried when she found out my mom was pregnant. So, there was some bad feelings.
Mothers and daughters being pregnant at the same time is also common in the Christian cult that is the extreme quiver full movement where families have as many children as possible.
We haven't heard of that group. 🤔 Thank you for letting us know.
The Shiny Happy people follow Quiverfull
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Also Catholic and apparently Lutheran families. Grandma to be has a surprise child when her daughter or daughter in law is pregnant. No birth control and early marriages make this a lot more common. I swear it came up in multiple episodes of Call the Midwife which was based in the 50's before birth control.
I had a surprise baby when my oldest was in high school and when we made the pregnancy announcement, I was very careful in the wording because it was such a surprise that I was super paranoid that people would think I was saying SHE was having a baby, not me lolol.
My family tends toward late menopause and has a long running trend of getting pregnant before 20. So multiple branches and generations had mom and daughter pregnant before birth control. My mother had a miscarriage when I was 28, though I have no kids yet.
Not trying to be negative, just want to let you know that there’s something off about the mikes in this vid. Hurts my ears, so I’m watching it with low sound. But I love your vids!
I am so appreciative that you guys share so much. I just finished the first season of My 5 Wives and there’s such a huge difference from the Brown family. I was wondering, though - do you think Nonie wanted to get pregnant so she could receive more attention from Brady?
My dad was the youngest of 7. His oldest three siblings were old enough to be his parents so he was close in age to some of his nephews and nieces.
I do hope they find you and you have them on. I watch the show. I’d love to hear updates. I’ve looked them up too and couldn’t find anything. I did find a Facebook page, but it didn’t look like anything. New had been posted in a few years.
One of my friends in high school was a classmate with her aunt. Her aunt was her grandmothers 8th and youngest child. She was her moms first child. They were Catholics.
Based on some poking around on social media a little while ago they seem to all still together in one big house. May I recommend Seeking Sister Wives season 1. There is a reunion episode at the end that is the most dramatic thing.
We want to watch that show as soon as possible 🙂
My dad remarried a woman in her 30s. She had my little sister a year after I had my first daughter.
Would you do a response/reaction video for the show Big Love? I just finished it this weekend. While it's a scripted drama show, there are a lot of parallels. I would love both of your insights.
Pre birth control, having your last child or 2 or 3 after your oldest was married and having their own children, was normal.
Religion had nothing to do with it.
My Grandma was 43 and pregnant with her 7th child (of 8) and her daughter, my Aunt Katherine, who was 21 was pregnant with her 1st! My Uncle Tony and my cousin Michael will both turn 83 this year. We're Italian Catholics.
I’d be interested to see updates on this family
Catholic here- my husband’s grandma was the oldest of 9 kids and had 9 kids of her own. She was had her 1st child right before her mother had her 9th child….they were pregnant at the same time for four months
My uncle and cousin are only a couple years apart. There are many young mothers where I live in southwest Virginia so it's not uncommon for a mom and child to have kids close together unfortunately
My uncle on his third marriage. His oldest had a child and so did his new wife.
I do remember that the 3rd wife complained that the first wife always called Brady to come & do jobs for her on the 3rd wife's time.
My husband is an uncle to a niece who is a few months older than him. He also has a younger sister who younger than a few older nieces and nephews. His parents are a single marriage four children born and then two additional in their forties. Their religion was Pentecostal. It was not strange to him but it was to me as I’m six years younger than him and became an aunt to all these people older than me.
My son has a kids 22, 19 and 16 months. We were all shocked as they are in their 40’s. The older kids do not have children though.
I went to (Catholic) school with a boy named Tom Brown. Tommy’s mom died when we were in high school and the funeral was huge. Tom was the baby of 10 children; his niece from his oldest brother was born two years before Tommy. So, it happens with many families. I’m sure Orthodox Jewish families have the same overlapping of generations.
I do have a question as a Catholic from Michigan just learning about FLDS/LDS history & beliefs but I’ll add it as another comment.
I don't come from a polygamist family or Mormonism, but I do have some of this in my family. My great-grandmother had 8 children over a span of about 20 years. She was in her early 40s when she had her last child so her older children were married and starting families of their own while she was still having kids. Also, my father was about 20 years older than my mother. She was his second marriage and he had grown children from his prior marriage. So my half-sister is only slightly younger than my mother and I have a niece who is my age. When I was younger I would say we were cousins to people I didn't know well because I thought others would find it odd.
My Grandma has a couple of nephews who are older than her. She is the youngest of 5 siblings and was a surprise baby. Her 2 older siblings were married before she was born. Their background was Lutheran.
My youngest brother is 20 years younger than me. Then my youngest cousin was born three months after my eldest.
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It's not uncommon to have a mother expecting at the same time as one of her older children, if they have a large family. My husband was raised Catholic. He is the youngest of 10, and his mother was pregnant with him while her oldest son's (19yo) wife was expecting their first child. So my husband's oldest nephew is three weeks older than him.
In the 60’s and 70’s and likely earlier it was very common to have very young aunts and uncles, sometimes younger than the niece or nephew. It happens when 2 generations get married at or under 20 and have kids right away and the grandma has 3 or more kids extending the egg supply into the late 30’s and early 40’s. On each side of my family there are grandkids within 5-10 years of their aunt and uncle. We were mostly Irish Catholic. It would be closer if certain babies lived. One grandma had a pregnancy scare after my cousin born, if it was a baby the aunt or uncle would be younger than the niece. I’m sure there were other miscarriages that would just not have been talked about. As I understand it in the orthodox Jewish community there are younger marriages and large families so it would be a mother and daughter pregnant very close to each as well. Not that everyone gets the number they want. Most get more or less than they plan. Mormons get married in college. Not all women serve missions. So easily an RM could marry an 18 year old from a large family where mom also married at 18 and they would be pregnant near the same time. Among recent immigrant populations you will see moms and daughters and DIL’s pregnant close together. Among Christian’s in the south you will see it. Places with high teen pregnancy rates you may see it. There was a reality tv show where women were pregnant at the same time as Mom.
I had a close friend in my 20s whose father remarried and had a child the same year my friends sister had her first child. When he and his sister took both children anywhere, people thought they were a couple with twins 😂 they had to say, “we’re actually siblings, and this is an aunt and her nephew” 😂 his family was not religious, it was just weird timing I guess lol
I've known two families where there were aunts/uncles younger than their nieces/nephews, neither of them polygamist. One family is mainstream LDS, other is non-religious. Both were because of teen pregnancies, so the mom was only in her 30s and still having children and then the daughter had a child at 15/16.
How do you know you’re at an Utah wedding? It’s the mother of the bride is pregnant.
Seriously my daughter had 2 roommates in college that were aunt and niece.And yes this was at an LDS college.
I had a friend who’s mom had her as a young teen. So her mom had her little brother only a year before she got pregnant.
In the Ultra Orthodox, and even Modern Orthodox, Jewish world, having children at the same time as your children is fairly common,.
My oldest 2 siblings are older than 2 of their aunts. Grandma was 45 when she had her last baby, My mother was the oldest of 14 kids. Grandma lived to 96 years old.
There are generations of my family where older parents had babies at the same time their kids. I have a nephew that is exactly a week older than I am. My mom and sister were pregnant at the same time. (Apparently, the hospital staff tried to give my mom a room when she went to the hospital when my nephew was born) My parents were married at 17 & 18, had 4 kids by the time they were 23 & 24. They had me when they were 41 and 42. My sister was 18 when she had my nephew & was the baby of the family before was born. My father came from an enormous family of 17 kids. His youngest sibling was born between my two oldest brothers. My mom was from a faminy of 7 and jer youngest sister is about the age of her older neices and nephews. My mom's paternal grandmother had her last baby just three years before my mom was born. She had several grandchildren that were OLDER than her youngest child. My dad's mother was born when her parents were in their mid fourties and had a bunch of neices and nephews that were her same age. We're from a Portestant/Baptist background.
I have an aunt who is 6 weeks older than me and an uncle who is 6 months older. So my mom, her mom, and my dad's mom were all pregnant at the same time. They are baptist.
Oh my!
My Dad is the oldest of 8 and I have an uncle that is 1 year and 8 days older than me. He was born 3 days before my parents got married
I am not part of any organized religion and both of my daughters chose to join the LDS church. My youngest leaves for her mission in a couple of months. They both know I have strong feelings against the church. However I RESPECT their choices, beliefs and how they want to live their lives. That was my focus as I was raising them. Respect my choices because they are mine. And I will respect yours.
My Mom is 2 years younger than her nephew. my Mom is the youngest of 11 children and her oldest sister-same Mom and Dad - had her first child before my Mom and her twin sister were born. My Mom and her nephew Ronnie both living - 92 yes and 94 years.
My mother is the third of 11 children and married young. I have an uncle the same age as my brother and an aunt who is younger than my brother. No religious influence, just a big family.
I am a Baptist and my children have uncles that are younger than themselves. My mom was 19 when she gave birth to me. She was 39 when I got married. When I got married at 20 years old I had 10 younger siblings. Mom my went on to have 3 more children. My two oldest sons have uncles that are youngers than them.
I loved growing up in a big family.
My daughter is 25 and my baby sister is 22.
I had to comment since you asked you wanted to know. My Husband is the 7th child of 9, the 4th son. HIs mom was pregnant with the ninth child, while her one of her first daughters was pregnant with their first. (teenage pregnancy) the youngest daughter of my MIL is about 3 years older than myself. Daughter number 4, now has 10 children. Eldest is in her early 20s. And most of my nephew and nieces by marriage have become parents with the time of my relationship and marriage to their uncle. Oh and the eldest son of my MIL is a priest, So all these children are from the second child on. My son being the youngest second youngest grandchild with cousins either slightly older or younger than him.
My mom was pregnant with me and my older sister was pregnant with my niece at the same time. I’m only 6 months older than my niece. 😅 We were Jehovahs witnesses but I really do not believe it’s tied at all to the religion. My mom had her first at 22 and me at 41. She parented for 40 years straight. lol
I have a question for Sam. What would happen to a woman whose husband passed but she herself is past child-bearing, so another man wouldn’t want to marry her. How does she survive? Is a son obligated to care for her? What about girls and women that have mental/physical disabilities?
Hi! I (Sam) saw some ladies just stay in one of their child's homes or, in some cases, they would remarry into a family that would help take care of her. As far as Disabilities, there were some cases where people were not treated well but most of them were well taken care of by their own families but would not get married.
@@GrowingUpinPolygamy thank you for responding! I really appreciate your content. I’m a recovering fundie of the independent baptist variety and there are so many similarities…and obviously fascinating differences. I’m glad you’re out, and happy. The videos the two of you put out are respectful and informative.
Not LDS or polygamist- I'm the oldest of 8 kids and my mom and I would have been pregnant at the same time, but she miscarried just before I got pregnant with my first.
I then had 2 kids before my mom had another baby and a year later I had another.
My kids get along so great with their aunts and uncles and my parents are such amazing grandparents because they never were out of practice.
I had a baby with my first husband and his mother was pregnant at 42 at the same time.
My grandmother was pregnant with her 12th child when her oldest was having her first.
Before birth control, it was a common experience. My mom, born in 1917 was only 3 years younger than her father’s sister. They lived near by so they were raised more like siblings or cousins not like aunt and niece.
My father's mom was pregnant at the same time as her oldest step daughter (who she raised as hers), so my father's youngest brother was born a little after his nephew from his half sister.
So in others words, my uncle is younger than my 1st cousin.
We are Christian orthodox and my mother-in-law had her first son the same time as her mother had her last son.
I normally don't comment but something is up with Sam's mic this episode. I double checked with a few other videos to make sure it wasn't my phone but it sounds like his mic is peaking.
Thank you for saying something. We are looking into it.
To be fair… Kody can’t be respected as a leader because he’s not one and never has been. I’m retired from the military, good leader have organization skills, which Kody has none. You can tell that Kody has winged his entire life, and people around his have supported him and propped him up, I guess in that “cloak of charity” he mentioned.
My grandpa had 10 siblings so he had several nieces and nephews that were older than his youngest siblings. Also I had several friends growing up who had nieces/nephews that were about the same age as them. I feel like it is not uncommon in the part of Utah I live in.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Is something wrong with Sam's mic? It sounds weirdly lower quality than Melissa's today for some reason.
A mom and her daughter being pregnant at the same time is fairly common in ultra orthodox Jewish families. My sister was pregnant with her oldest three at the same time as my mother was pregnant with her youngest three. They had babies within a couple of months of each other. Babies are very celebrated in ultra orthodox Jewish families, so it never felt like anyone was stealing anyone’s thunder. I don’t know personal feelings though, it could be that my sister felt a bit overshadowed that her first child was born a short time after her own sister was born. I was really young, so it’s possible I missed some of the subtleties.
My experience isn't quite as extreme as Sam's, but my mum has a much older half-brother from her father's first marriage - his sons (my mum's nephews) are almost closer in age to mum than her brother is, so their kids are not much younger than me. My extended family lives in Poland and my immediate family have been living in Australia since I was a toddler, and the first time I returned to Poland for a visit was when I was 14. I had a very strange experience of having my 10 year old cousin calling me "auntie" because I'm actually her dad's cousin and that was technically the correct way for her to address me in our culture (which is not how things work in Australia), especially because she didn't know me. I very quickly put a stop to that.
We also have a similar thing on my dad's side because of my great-grandfather being amongst the eldest of 10 children. We're in touch with the (very) extended family and it's sometimes hard to remember where people fit into the picture because there are people in my grandfather's generation of the family who are around my father's age or even younger, and there are school-age children in my generation of the family (I'm in my 40s).
What happens if you’re a young adult LDS and you don’t want to go on a mission? Is it mandatory and frowned upon if you don’t go, or optional and no pressure?
It’s not required, but heavily encouraged both by the church itself and by the surrounding culture. For example, many faithful LDS women will only date LDS men who completed missions, so if you want to get married in the church, you have to go on a mission to “qualify” in the eyes of your prospective partners.
Is Brady's parents mainline LDS? Are the wives families still involved in polygamy?
Just letting you know theres sonethijg wrong with his mic. I think you dont have your levels set. There was also a problem with the intro music though.
Trying to reach out to Brady and yhe wives, I do believe they have their own channel on here. Ill have to look that up but I believe Ive watched them on here.
I'm pretty sure he was on Breakthrough Academy about a month ago. Just FYI
My husband has nephews and nieces older than him by several years. His siblings are 25-9 years older than him.
It was not planned or religious.
My Grandmother was having children the same time as her daughter. And they were Catholic
It’s common in Hispanic families for the parents to have children or young children when their oldest has kids
Whats the dream center?
There are Dream Center locations throughout the country but the one we're referring to is in Short Creek/Hildale Utah. It is a place of refuge for people in a bad situation.
Is it just me or do their mics sounds a little blown out? Not trying to be rude at all. I love their channel and have been an active listener for a long time
My mother has two aunts that are younger than her. Her grandmother had her dad at 20 and her last baby at 45. She had 5 bio kids and 1 adopted with big gaps between. It’s the only family I personally know like that. But having kids young gives a lot more time for that to happen, just depends on your culture and situation I guess!