Some Interesting Facts About Mothers

May 13, 2012 by John Rook

It's Mother's Day!
Are you off to celebrate with mom? Taking her to a favorite restaurant? Staying home and enjoying some personal time? Or perhaps mom lives far away and a phone call and card will suffice.
Whatever the day entails, we know that mom is always there to help us or cheer us up when we are down.
So, on this Mother's Day, we thought you might be interested to know some interesting mother-centric facts. Remember these and you'll impress mom, although we know she's already proud of her favorite son or daughter:

*The youngest mother whose history is authenticated is Lina Medina, who delivered a 6½-pound boy by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7 months. The child was raised as her brother and only discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10.

*On April 9, 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher in India, became the world's oldest mother when she gave birth to a baby boy. Satyabhama and her husband had been married 50 years, but this was their first child. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using eggs from the woman's 26-year-old niece, Veenarani Mahapatra, and the sperm of Veenarani's husband.

*Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for the shortest interval between two children born in separate confinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. The babies were born 208 days apart.

*Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.

*A woman becomes pregnant most easily at the age of eighteen or nineteen, with little real change until the mid twenties. There is then a slow decline to age thirty-five, a sharper decline to age forty-five and a very rapid decline as the women nears menopause.

*Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real mother.

*A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.

Happy Mother's Day everyone, from The Cheshire Herald.