By Frank Witsil / Nov. 6, 2020
Edited and Translated by Sally
It took 15 tries, but a western Michigan couple finally gave birth to a baby girl.
在尝试了15次之后，密歇根州西部的一对夫妇终于迎来了他们的第一个女婴。
Kateri and Jay Schwandt, both 45, started with Tyler. Then they had 13 more boys: Zach, Drew, Brandon, Tommy, Vinny, Calvan, Gabe, Wesley, Charlie, Luke, Tucker, Francisco and Finley — until Wednesday night, when their youngest, Maggie Jayne, was born.
凯特丽和杰伊·施万特都是45岁，从泰勒开始的。然后他们又生了13个男孩：扎克、德鲁、布兰登、汤米、文尼、卡尔文、盖布、韦斯利、查理、卢克、塔克、弗朗西斯科和芬利——直到周三晚上，他们最小的女儿麦琪·杰恩出生。
She weighs 7 pounds, 8ounces, is 20 inches long, and ready to take on a world with 14 older brothers.
她重7磅8盎司，20英寸长，准备和14个哥哥一起面对这个世界。
The Schwandts — who have been featured for years in local and national news every time there was a new arrival and have a livestreaming program, "14 Outdoorsmen" — will likely need to adjust, and perhaps even rename their show.
Schwandts一家多年来一直是当地和全国新闻的焦点人物，每次新来的人都有一个直播节目,“14个户外好汉”，现在他们可能需要重新调整他们节目的名字了。
"My parents were finally blessed with the little girl they never thought they'd end up having," Tyler Schwandt, 28, said. "It's been about 12 hours since my dad told us, and I still haven't quite wrapped my mind around it."
28岁的泰勒·施万特说：“我的父母终于幸运地得到了一个他们从没想过会有的小女孩。”爸爸告诉我们这个消息已经12个小时了，我还没有完全能够相信这一切是真的。”
There's no pink in the Schwandt household.
施万特家里没有粉红色。
"I don't even know if my mom owns any pink clothing — or anything," he added.
“我甚至都想不出来我妈妈是不是有粉红色的衣服，或者其他什么，”他补充道。
Tyler said he also didn't think his parents were prepared with any girl names because they never had to use any. Maggie, he said, came from his mom, whose middle name is Margaret, and Jayne, a clever variation of his dad's first name, Jay.
泰勒说，他也不认为他的父母准备了任何女孩的名字，因为他们从来不用任何。他说，麦琪来自他的母亲，她的中间名是玛格丽特，杰恩是他父亲的名字杰伊的巧妙变体。
One big adjustment Tyler said his brothers would have to make is remembering to put the toilet seat down. But that might take years, he said. The house, he pointed out, has been full of boys for so long they just aren't used to thinking about what it's like to be a girl.
泰勒说，他的兄弟们要做的一个重大调整就是记住放下马桶盖。但这可能需要数年时间，他说。他指出，房子里已经挤满了男孩，他们只是不习惯思考做女孩的感觉。
In the past few years, every time his mom was expecting, news organizations would start asking if the next one would bring the boys a sister.
在过去的几年里，每当他妈妈怀上孩子时，新闻机构就会开始问下一个孩子是否会给他们带一个妹妹。
Tyler, who recently bought a home of his own about 20 minutes away, is engaged to be married.
泰勒最近在20分钟车程外买了一套自己的房子，他已经订婚了。
"We are overjoyed and beyond excited to add Maggie Jayne to our family," Jay Schwandt said, after his wife gave birth at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. "This year has been memorable in so many ways, for so many reasons, but Maggie is the greatest gift we could ever imagine."
在妻子在大急流城的圣玛丽慈善医院分娩后，杰伊·施万特说：“我们非常高兴，也非常兴奋能带麦琪·杰恩进入我们的家庭。”今年在很多方面都是值得纪念的，原因很多，但麦琪是我们所能想象到的最好的礼物。”
The Schwandts started dating as high school freshmen in Michigan. They married in 1993, before they attended Ferris State University and had three sons before they graduated.
施旺特夫妇从密歇根州的高中新生开始约会。他们于1993年结婚，当时他们还没上费里斯州立大学，毕业前他们已经育有三个儿子。
They both earned advanced degrees, even as their family grew. Kateri earned a master's degree in social work from Grand Valley State University, and Jay, who also is a land surveyor, a law degree from Thomas Cooley.
尽管他们的家庭在不断的壮大，他们都获得了高等学位。凯特丽获得了Grand Valley州立大学的社会工作硕士学位，杰伊也是土地测量师，获得了Thomas Cooley的法律学位。
In 2014, before Francisco was born, the Today show asked, "Oh boy! Couple with 12 sons expecting baby 13; will they finally get a girl?" They had already made headlines the year before when Tucker was born, as baby boy No. 12.
2014年，在弗朗西斯科出生之前，《今日》节目问道：“哦，天哪！一对有12个儿子的夫妇怀了13个孩子，他们最终会得到一个女孩吗？”在塔克出生的前一年，他们已经成为头条新闻，当时塔克还是12号男婴。
“If we were to have a girl, I think we would go into shock,” Kateri told Mlive in 2014.
“如果我们有了一个女孩，我想我们会震惊，”凯特丽在2014年告诉Mlive。
At the time, Jay said, he'd love to have a girl, and to see how she would affect the nearly all-male household. He added that there's always a lot of roughhousing and wrestling, but a little girl might change all that.
当时，杰伊说，他很想生个女孩，看看她会如何影响几乎全是男性的家庭。他补充说，总有很多粗野和摔跤，但一个小女孩可能会改变这一切。
And earlier this year, after Kateri announced she was pregnant, she said that "there's enough testosterone" in the house to "fill a stadium" and if they had a little girl, she'd be "the most spoiled and protected child her entire life, especially during her teenage years."
今年早些时候，在凯特丽宣布自己怀孕后，她说家里“有足够的睾丸激素”可以“填满一个体育场”，如果他们有一个小女孩，她将是“她一生中最娇惯和最受保护的孩子，尤其是在她十几岁的时候。”
Good luck, Maggie Jayne, bringing dates home.
祝你好运，麦琪·杰恩，带着你的男朋友回家来吧。
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