So, I'm bored at work and was looking for some hint on the web as to when I'm going to have this baby. Here are some interesting tid bits I came across:
- In 1939, Lina Medina became the youngest mother on record at 5 years old.
- Satyabhama Mahapatra, a retired schoolteacher in India, holds the record for becoming the world's oldest mother at age 65 years.
- In 1997, Bobbie McCaughey set the record for the most surviving children from a single birth with septuplets (7).
- Joseph and Annie Bleackley hold the record for shortest interval between their births. They are just 208 days (7 months) apart!
- Elizabeth Ann Buttle's two children were born 41 years apart, setting the record for longest interval between the birth of two children.
- Between 1725 and 1765, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev bore 69 children. In a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets (of whom all but two survived infancy!)
- The odds of a mother giving birth to twins is 1-in-33.
- The odds of having triplets or other multiple births is 1-in-539.
- The most popular day of the week to have a baby is Tuesday.
- The most popular month to have a baby is August.
- Jenna Cotton gave birth to three children on the same date - October 2. Her son, Ayden, arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; son Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006, and daughter Kayla was born Tuesday, which was Oct. 2, 2007. The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million.
- The average woman in 17th-century America gave birth to 13 children.
- 81% of women 40 to 44 years old are mothers. In 1980, 90 percent of women in that age group were mothers.
- 11% of women end their childbearing years with four or more children, compared with 36 percent in 1976.
- 24.8 is the median age of women when they give birth for the first time - meaning one-half are above this age and one-half are below. The median age has risen nearly three years since 1970.
- A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
- A mother giraffe often gives birth while standing, so the newborn's first experience outside the womb is a 1.8-meter (6-foot) drop.
- Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
- The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
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