Mother’s Day Trivia
I searched the web for all kinds of Mother’s Day trivia.
Here’s what I came up with:
- The percentage of women with 4 or more children – dropped from 36% of American women in 1976 to 11% just 30 years later.
- The number of new moms each year – 4 million, with 11% being teen mothers and 2.5% accounting for moms over 40+ year old.
- Percent of births occurring in a hospital – 99+%.
- Number of Mother’s Day cards sent annually - 155 million, the 3rd highest of any holiday.
- Dollars spent on Mom on Mother’s Day – just under $100 on average, including dinner, gifts, flowers and cards.
- World’s youngest mother – Lina Medina, who, in 1939, delivered a 6½-pound boy in Lima, Peru, at an age of 5 years and 7 months.
- World’s oldest mother - Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara of Spain, delivered twins at the age of 66 in 2006.
- Shortest interval between births - Just 208 days (just under 7 months) was how quickly Jayne Bleackley gave birth in 1999 and 2000.
- Longest interval between births - 41½ years, by Elizabeth Buttle, who’s first child came in 1956 when she was 19 and her second child was born in 1997, when she was 60.
- Most children born to a mother - An unbelievable 69 by Feodor Vassilyev in 18th century Russia. Her family (actually a small city) included 16 sets of twins (32), seven sets of triplets (21), and four sets of quadruplets (16). All but two survived infancy. But that’s nothing compared to the female oyster, who can produce 100 million offspring during her lifetime.
Images – Mom & son, hippos, geese
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Too fascinating!
Dollars spent on Mom on Mother’s Day – just under $100 on average, including dinner, gifts, flowers and cards.
I never get off that cheap because my mother’s birthday falls very close to Mother’s Day. So, I always have to double up on the gifts and love, just like people with relatives who have birthdays near or on Christmas. It’s a blessing and a curse.