Giving birth to 6 children in 8 years, the mother tells funny and sad stories every night

Give birth to 6 children in 8 years

Nguyen Thi Tuyet (born in 1991) from Dien Chau, Nghe An got married in 2013. When getting married, Ms. Tuyet always kept in mind that children are a blessing, the more children, the more fun. In their old age, parents can rest assured because they have happy children and are together.

So she decided to let things "go natural". As a result, in 8 years, the young mother gave birth to 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls.

First child born in 2014, second child in 2016, third child in 2017, fourth child in 2018, fifth child in 2020, sixth child in 2022.

“Having 6 children in 8 years, many people think my husband and I ‘missed it’ but it’s not. I intentionally wanted to have that many children and felt that our finances could support it, and we could raise our children properly. My husband loves me very much, but knowing that I don’t mind having many children, he sympathizes with me,” Tuyet shared.

In the past, the couple shared the responsibility of taking care of the children. After work, he always did housework, cooked, washed dishes, etc. to help his wife.

Five months ago, Tuyet's husband went abroad for work. Since then, she has been taking care of the house and children alone.

Luckily, she does online business so she has a lot of time to spend with her children.

Like many other mothers, in addition to earning money, she devotes all her time to taking care of her children, making sure they eat and sleep. There are days when she only sleeps 3-4 hours. Despite being so tired, this mother still tries to do everything properly. To reduce the burden, she hires hourly cleaning services.

She said that spending on her children also has to be carefully calculated. Each month, from tuition, diapers, clothes, and expenses for going out, eating out... the minimum is about 50 million VND/month.

The "4 word" rule of teaching children

The young mother's secret to raising children is just 4 words: Teach your children to be independent. She believes that only by teaching them to be independent from a young age can their children take good care of themselves and she will also be more relaxed when she has to "carry" all 6 children by herself.

Her children are taught to follow a routine right from brushing their teeth, washing their faces, getting dressed, eating, and sleeping. She and her 6 children still sleep together for convenience.

"My eldest child has had to wash dishes since he was in second grade. Now he helps his mother look after his younger siblings and takes care of them when she is busy. Children aged 4 and 5 have to bathe and do personal hygiene by themselves. I think independence is the best condition to help children develop comprehensively and become smarter and more agile," she shared.

Her family's "immutable" principle is that no matter how hard the work is, at night, she will put everything aside to spend time with her children, so that they do not lack the love of their parents.

What worries Ms. Tuyet the most is when her children get sick. With so many children in the house, one child’s illness will spread to the other, so when one child gets sick, the whole family is in trouble. There are many nights when she has to stay up all night worrying about her children. It’s hard work, but she is not discouraged. Because she understands that having many children is her blessing. And when her children come into this world, she only knows that she has to work 10 times, 20 times harder to give them the best health and the most comfortable life possible.

"When we grow old, the children will gather around their parents. There is nothing more joyful than that. The children will also be able to rely on each other if one of them is in trouble or has difficulties."

Since becoming a mother of 6 children, the couple often travels in groups. Wherever they go, people think that she brings her grandchildren along, not that they are all her children. The couple often travels so that their children can have more experiences with the outside world.

With so many children, she could never finish telling all the tragic and comical situations in her family. Every night before going to bed, she had to lie down and read the names of her children to take attendance. Sometimes she forgot her children's names, reading one child's name as another.

“When I was in labor with my fifth child, the doctor asked me how many children I had and what their names were. In the pain, I couldn’t remember their names or their order of age. Maybe I was so focused on the pain that I temporarily forgot.

Once, when my children took their farewell photos at the end of the year, I sent the names to the photo studio and got them all wrong. When the photographer asked me again, I was shocked to find out that I had made a mistake in the order and names of the children. Because in the photo, they are quite big and look very similar,” Tuyet shared.

Despite the hard life, having to work hard every day to earn money and then come home at night to take care of her children, Ms. Tuyet is always optimistic and loves life. She understands that having many children will not be really good when there are only 1-2 children. However, she and her husband always try their best, taking care of everything materially and spiritually so that their children can have the fullest life.

"In the next few years, I plan to have 1-2 more children before 'finalizing my household registration'," Ms. Tuyet humorously said.