OUR Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has left her children shouting after she was asked whether or not she’d be having a TENTH baby.
The shepherdess was opening up about her tricky birth experience with youngest child Nancy when her children posed the possibility.
Amanda, 46, was seen giving birth to a premature Nancy, her ninth baby in 20 years, in a lay-by with the help of husband Clive, 66.
In a more recent episode looking back at how the Owen children have grown up in the last five years, she recounted the birth story.
The family had been sitting out on the grass verges with the children playing outside when the topic of conversation came up.
“You were very, very tiny,” she told Nancy, explaining that the nearest hospital is 60 miles away and that they couldn’t get there in time.
Listening in awe, some of the children asked whether or not Nancy would always be the “baby of the family” or if they could expect one more.
As Amanda softened into the idea, a shocked Clive spluttered back to her: “Does that mean, are you going to have another baby?”
But before Amanda could answer, the children were already screaming, with a loud chorus booming together: “Noooo!”
“I think I’ve changed my last nappy, I think I’m done,” Clive agreed, to which Amanda nodded her head also in agreement with the children.
It comes after Amanda suggested she could be on her way to her tenth child because there was “no family planning” at Ravenseat farm.
“I think I’m too old to have a tenth child. I don’t know, wait and see. There was never any family planning, so who knows?” she said.
“For some people, motherhood is always the way — they’ve got that broody feeling in them.
“For me, that wasn’t the case at all. Obviously it was something I wanted, to have a family. But I didn’t really know what to expect.”
Last month, Amanda was forced to defend “breeding her own workforce”, as she faced a backlash from fans after revealing that all of her kids work on the farm.
“I try not to build comparisons with what everybody else is doing. I’m quite fortunate that I don’t have to do competitive parenting,” she defended her position.
“But being part of a big family, being on the farm and having various tasks and responsibilities, I think those are really good life lessons. To teach them washing and cooking — I don’t mean for one minute my kids are skivvies — but I want them to feel like an important part of what we do and that they’re valued.
“I think that responsibility holds the family together, especially with the older ones — it gives them independence.”
