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There is nother more tender than a mothers kiss. Her warm and
affectionate love is what matters to a child the most. There is
nothing more precious than her unconditional love. Some of the
world famous mothers includes the names of following : |
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- Alice Waters is credited with creating the world famous
Edible Schoolyard Project.
- Anna Jarvis, the Founder of Mother's Day, dedicated her
life to her mother's cause and lifework and to establish
Mother's Day to "honor mothers, living and dead...."
- Harriet Tubman was a colored woman born into slavery and
in spite of physical handicap and lack of education,
dedicated her life to gain freedom and save the lives of
millions of people like her.
- Mother Teresa is certainly one of the most famous
mothers, who worked on behalf of Calcutta's poor, lepers and
downtrodden for decades.
- The youngest mother whose history is authenticated is
Lina Medina, who delivered a 6½-pound boy by cesarean
section in Lima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7
months. The child was raised as her brother and only
discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10.
- On April 9, 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a 65-year-old
retired schoolteacher in India, became the world's oldest
mother when she gave birth to a baby boy. Satyabhama and her
husband had been married 50 years, but this is their first
child. The baby was conceived through artificial
insemination using eggs from the woman's 26-year-old niece,
Veenarani Mahapatra, and the sperm of Veenarani's husband.
- Bobbie McCaughey is the mother who holds the record for
the most 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 delivered after 31 weeks by caesarean in the
space of 16 minutes. The babies are named Kenneth,
Nathaniel, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey, Natalie and Alexis.
- Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for
the shortest interval between two children born in separate
confinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September
3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. The
babies were born 208 days apart.
- Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record
for the longest interval between the birth of two children.
She gave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph on
November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days
apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was
born.
- The highest officially recorded number of children born
to one mother 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, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
67 of them survived infancy.
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