Trivia for Mother

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Obscure, and interesting information and facts about mothers.

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"Famous Mothers"The youngest mother whose history is authenticated is LinaMedina, who delivered a 6-pound boy by cesarean section inLima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7 months. Thechild was raised as her brother and only discovered that Linawas his mother when he was 10. See Snopes entry on this.

On April 9, 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a 65-year-oldretired schoolteacher in India, became the world's oldestmother when she gave birth to a baby boy. Satyabhama andher husband had been married 50 years, but this is their firstchild. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination

using eggs from the woman's 26-year-old niece, VeenaraniMahapatra, and the sperm of Veenarani's husband.

UPDATE: The oldest known birth mother in the worldcurrently is Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara of Spain whogave delivered twins at the age of 66 in 2006.

UPDATE: On November 28, 2008, 70-year old Rajo Devi ofIndia gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, after IVFtreatments.

Bobbie McCaughey is the mother who holds the record for themost surviving children from a single birth. She gave birth to

the first set of surviving septuplets - four boys and three girls-on November 19, 1997, at the University Hospital, Iowa, US.Conceived by in vitro fertilization, the babies were deliveredafter 31 weeks by caesarean in the space of 16 minutes. Thebabies are named Kenneth, Nathaniel, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey,Natalie and Alexis.

NOTE: The first confirmed birth of octuplets occurred onMarch 10, 1967 in Mexico City, Mexico to Maria TeresaLpez de Sepulveda. All of the babiesfour boys and fourgirlsdied within 13 hours of birth.

NOTE:The first live birth of octuplets in the U.S. happened

in Houston, Texas in 1998. Nkem Chukwu gave birth to eightbabies, one of whom died a week after birth. The survivingchildren are: Ebuka, Echerem, Jioke, Chima, Gorom, Chidi,Ikem and Favo.

UPDATE: On January 26, 2009, Nadia Suleman Gutierrez,33, gave birth to octuplets in Bellflower, California, UnitedStates. The unmarried mother already had six childen under
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the age of seven, including twins born just two years ago.

Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for theshortest interval between two children born in separateconfinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. Thebabies were born 208 days apart.

Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record forthe longest interval between the birth of two children. Shegave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph onNovember 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 daysapart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph wasborn.

The highest officially recorded number of children born to onemother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of

27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, sevensets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of themsurvived infancy.

The modern world record for giving birth is held by LeontinaAlbina from San Antonio, Chile. Leontina claims to be themother of 64 children, of which only 55 of them aredocumented. She is listed in the 1999 Guinness WorldRecords but dropped from later editions.

Jenna Cotton gave birth to three children on the same date -October 2. Her son, Ayden, arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; sonLogan was born Oct. 2, 2006, and daughter Kayla was born

Tuesday, which was Oct. 2, 2007. The odds of a family havingthree children born on the same date in different years areabout 7.5 in 1 million.

51-year-old Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, gave birth to twins onSeptember 30, 2007 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serrao served as asurrogate mother after four years of failed attempts atpregnancy by her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle deBrito.

One early reference to an aged mother can be found in theBible, where Sarah is described as having given birth to herhusband Abraham's son, Isaac, at the age of 90.

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the former U.S. Senator and VicePresential nominee John Edwards, gave birth to son Jack in2000 at the age of 51. The couple decided to have childrenagain after their 16-year-old son was killed in a car accident in1996.

On March 28, 2008, Carole Horlock of Stevenage,Hertfordshire, England, gave birth to triplets. Horlock is


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touted as the most prolific surrogate mother - from 1995through now, she has given birth to eight girls and four boysfor childless couples, including a set of twins and the triplets.

The first "man" to give birth is Thomas Beatie. The beardedMr Beatie was born a girl and named Tracy Lagondino, buthad gender-reassignment surgery and is now legally male. Thebaby, a girl, was delivered by C-section on July 3, 2008.

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Katherine Hepburn's father was a surgeon and her mother wasa dedicated suffragette and early crusader for birth control.

Kim Basinger's mother had been a champion swimmer whoperformed water ballets in several Esther Williams movies inthe 1940s.

Laura Dern earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for herilluminating performance as the title character in RamblingRose, an underrated picture in 1991 that also won a BestSupporting Actress nomination for her mother, Diane Ladd.This was the first time a mother-daughter team had been sohonored; they became the first mother and daughter evernominated for Academy Awards for the same movie.

Madonna's mother died when she was five years old.

Phyllis Diller, a 40-year-old mother of five and an advertisingcopywriter for a California radio station, made a rousingcomedy debut at San Francisco's Purple Onion in 1957.

American talk show host Conan O'Brien's father is Dr.

Thomas O'Brien, a noted epidemiologist, the head ofmicrobiology at Peter Brigham Hospital, and a professor atHarvard Medical School. His mother, Ruth Reardon O'Brien,was a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm outside Boston untilher 1997 retirement.

Elvis Presley, was a mama's boy. He slept in the same bedwith his mother, Gladys, until he reached puberty. Up untilElvis entered high school, she walked him back and forth toschool every day and made him take along his own silverwareso that he wouldn't catch germs from the other kids. Gladysforbade young Elvis from going swimming or doing anything

that might put him in danger. The two of them also conversedin a strange baby talk that only they could understand.

Meredith Baxter-Birney played the mother, Elyse Keaton onthe hit TV sitcom Family Ties. Her actress mother, WhitneyBlake, also played a mom: Dorothy Baxter, on TV's Hazel.

James McNeill Whistler's best known painting, often called"Whistler's Mother," is actually titled "Arrangement in Black


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and Gray: The Artist's Mother."

Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the populartelevision show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actuallyknitted by his real mother.

Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother, Bette Nesmith Graham wasthe inventor of Liquid Paper correction fluid. She sold therights to the Gillette Corporation in 1979 for $47.5 million andwhen she died in 1980, she left half of her fortune to her sonMichael.

Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and to shield himfrom the shame, Eric grew up believing that his grandparentswere his parents and his mother was his sister.

Hoyt Axton wrote Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World".His mother, Mae Axton wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for ElvisPresley.

Actress Jane Seymour's mother, Mieke Frankenberg, was bornin Holland and lived in Indonesia during World War II, whereshe spent more than three years in a Japanese concentrationcamp.

Jack Nicholson, born on April 22, 1937, had been theillegitimate child of 17-year-old June Nicholson. Nicholsonhad spent his life up to age 37 assuming that his biologicalmother, June, was his sister, and that his maternalgrandmother, Ethel May, was his mother. Even on theirdeathbeds, neither June nor Ethel May had offered up thetruth.

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