30 Enlightening Facts about Mothers
In Greek mythology, Gaia, or Mother Earth, was the first goddess. She arose from the abyss of primordial chaos. She was also the one who created the World and the cosmos.
The African Black Eagle lays two eggs on average. The mother can only feed one of the chicks after they hatch. As the mother observes, the other chick is normally pecked to death by the other chick.
The woman who gives birth to the world's largest baby is an elephant mother. She gives birth to a mute, 200-pound calf after a 22-month pregnancy.
A mother koala will eat her own feces to feed her daughter. Baby koalas, also known as joeys, lack the intestinal bacteria required to detoxify the highly poisonous eucalyptus leaves that make up the majority of a koala's diet. During their pregnancy, polar bear mothers gain about 400 pounds. If the mother's weight does not double, the fetus may actually be consumed by her body.
A mother orangutan never lays her babies down and usually nurses them for 6 to 7 years, the longest nursing dependency of any animal on Earth.
A mother orangutan never lays her babies down and usually nurses them for 6 to 7 years, the longest nursing dependency of any animal on Earth.
On Mother's Day, Americans spend $14.6 billion on gifts, with $671 million on cards and $1.9 billion on flowers.
Grendel's mother from Beowulf (A.D. 800–1100) is one of literary history's most prominent mothers. She fights Beowulf's army while remaining anonymous in order to avenge her son's death.
June Cleaver, the mother on the television show Leaving It to Beaver, epitomizes the 1950s housewife and suburban dad.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Clair Huxtable (The Cosby Show), Angela Bower (Who's the Boss), and Murphy Brown (Murphy Brown) all played high-powered working mothers on television.
Roseanne Conner, who starred in the hit television series Roseanne (1988–1997), was regarded as a "anti-hero" mother. She was underpaid, couldn't keep her children under control, and was overweight. The show was noteworthy for portraying a mother who was the head of the household and whose likability was not based on her physical appearance.
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of disability and death among women in developing countries. Maternal deaths account for more than 99 percent of all deaths in developing countries.
Every day, approximately 800 women die around the world from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 56 percent of the 287,000 annual deaths in developing countries, while South Asia accounts for 29 percent.
In Chad, one out of every 15 women will die as a result of childbirth. In Greece, one out of every 25,500 women will succumb to maternal causes.
Despite spending more money on health care and maternal care than any other country, giving birth in the United States is riskier than in 49 other nations, including Kuwait, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
African American women are almost four times more likely than Caucasian women to die during childbirth.
Throughout history, there have been many cases where children have turned on their mothers. Cleopatra III of Egypt, for example, was assassinated on the orders of her son Ptolemy X. Nero is also said to have murdered his mother.
Lina Medina holds the record for being the world's youngest mother. She was just 5 years and 7 months old when she gave birth by caesarean section to a 6.5 pound boy in Peru in 1939.
Rajo Devi Lohan of India is the oldest mother to give birth in modern history. She was 70 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in 2008, after a contentious IVF procedure.
Bobbie McCaughey of Iowa holds the record for having the most children survive a single birth. She gave birth to the first collection of septuplets in 1997. (4 boys and 3 girls).
In the United States, there are an estimated 85.4 million mothers.
The shortest time between births is 208 days (612 months). On September 3, 1999, Jayne Bleackley gave birth to a son. On March 30, 2000, she gave birth to a daughter.
There are approximately 2 billion mothers on the planet.
According to the National Retail Federation, on Mother's Day, Americans would spend an average of $162.94 on their mothers. Mother's Day is the second most popular holiday for gift-giving after Christmas.
Except for Christmas/Hanukkah, more flowers are bought on Mother's Day than any other holiday. Mother's Day accounts for 14% of all flower and plant sales during the holiday season.
On Mother's Day, there are nearly 122.5 million phone calls, making it one of the busiest phone days of the year.
In 1970, the average age of new mothers in the United States was 21 years old. Today, the average age of new mothers in the United States is 25 years old.
In the United States, modern moms have an average of two children. They had an average of 3.5 children in the 1950s. They had 7–10 children in the 1700s.
Moms spend an average of 2 minutes and 5 seconds changing a diaper, which is almost three 40-hour work weeks per year. On average, fathers take 1 minute and 36 seconds.
In the United States, mothers do about 88 percent of the laundry. Per year, this equates to 330 loads of laundry and 5,300 pieces of clothing. Vacuuming the stairs is a mom's least favorite chore.
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