DR. MICHELLE YAGODA,  NYC FACIAL PLASTIC SURGEON, AND CO-FOUNDER OF BEAUTYSCOOP  

 

 

GENERAL FACTS:

• Eve is considered the mother of all humans
• A female human embryo starts to make eggs when it is only six weeks old; at birth it carries one million eggs and will make no more
• It is easiest for a woman to conceive at age eighteen or nineteen, although 25 is the median age when women give birth for the first time
• The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1-in-33 and the odds of having triplets is 1-in-539
• August is the most popular month for babies to be born  
• Tuesday is the most popular day of the week for babies to be born   
• 4.3 million women have babies each year.  About 450,000 are teens and more than 100,000 are aged 40 or over.

UNUSUAL FACTS:

• The youngest mother whose history is authenticated delivered a 6�-pound boy in Lima, Peru in 1939, when she was age 5 years and 7 months.     
• The world's oldest mother was a 65 year-old retired schoolteacher in India.  She delivered a baby boy on April 9, 2003. Though married for 50 years, this was her first child. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using her 26-year-old niece's eggs, and her niece's husband's sperm. 
• The mother who holds the record for the most surviving children from a single birth gave birth to the first set of surviving septuplets - four boys and three girls -on November 19, 1997, at the University Hospital, Iowa.  
• The record for the shortest interval between the birth of two children born in separate confinements was 208 days.  The babies were born on September 3, 1999, and  March 30, 2000. 
• The longest interval between the birth of two children was 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her second child was born. 
• The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69.  In 27 pregnancies, this mother gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy. 

CELEBRITY FACTS:

• Elvis Presley was a mama's boy.  He slept in his mother's bed until he reached puberty.  
• Both Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson were born to an unwed mothers and shielded from shame, by being led to believe that their grandparents were their parents and their mothers were their sisters.

CELEBRITY TRIVIA QUIZ:

 

• Match the following mothers with their daughters:   A. Judy Garland; B. Janet Leigh; C. Jayne Mansfield; D. Debbie Reynolds  with  a. Jamie Lee Curtis; b. Carrie Fischer; c. Mariska Hargitay; d. Liza Minelli.
• Name the supermodel mom and her beautiful daughter below: