For the Mothers

“Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.” – Unknown

First and foremost, to all the mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day and wishing you all a great day!

Now if you’re anything like me, you and your immediate family usually make a fuss when it comes that time of year – Mother’s Day.

When the thought of Mother’s Day comes to mind, what do you picture? Flowers? Presents? Hugs? Chocolates? Pink? Yeah, those do come to mind. But after that I usually think of the media attention surrounding the day – those annoying television ads that tell you to “Spoil your mum and get her a [insert name of artist and their new promotional CD or DVD, or some electronic device that enables her to ‘communicate with you better’ or the like]”.  There’s nothing like those ads that just tell you to spend on more money that your mother is probably better off without.

So anyway, we all know that all mothers have super powers (some more than others).

Check out the following facts about mothers and then judge for yourself:

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

2.   A mother giraffe gives birth while standing, so the newborn’s first experience outside the  womb is a 1.8 metre drop.

3.   The world’s youngest mother is Lina Medina from Lima, Peru. In 1939, at the age of 5 years and 7 months, she gave birth to her first son. Meanwhile, the child was raised believing that his mother was his sister – until he found out the unfortunate truth when he was 10.

4.   The highest officially recorded number of children born to a mother is 69. Between 1726 and 1765, the mother gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Only 2 of this number did not survive infancy. Now that’s what I call a baby maker!

"When do you think they'll get to us?"

Hope that you learnt something from the above notes of trivia on mothers. If not, best put it to good use and spread the word. I recommend telling your mother about the woman on the last point with the record amount of babies – that way you’ll know she really means it when she says that she was lucky you came out this way (and only you if you’re an only child). I have yet to try that on my own mother...