Mothers....

Firstly, I want to wish all of the others out there a Happy Belated Mother's day! All of the physical gifts in this world and all the money in this world can compare to all of the pain and sacrifices that mothers have to go through to mould and shape their children...and for that, we shall always be grateful for you, mothers! Like they say, syurga di bawah tapak kaki ibu...or heaven is under a mother's feet. It means that the way to heaven is by respecting and loving your mother and that shuld you incur a mother's wrath, betray or disappoint her, there is no way you are getting into heaven. Sooooooo, go and give your mum a big kiss/hug!

Some mother-related trivia that I got off the net:

Youngest Mother - 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. [Say it with me....OH MY GODDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wonder why a 5-year-old girl got pregnant in the first place!]


Oldest Mother - 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.


Most Surviving Children - 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 cesarean in the space of 16 minutes. The babies are named Kenneth, Nathaniel, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey, Natalie and Alexis. [Seven babies at once??????????????? That's incredible!]


Shortest Interval Between Two Children - 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. [OK....this one's kinda weird!]


Longest Interval Between Two Children - 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.


Highest Recorded Number of Children - 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. [This is absolutely amazing. Can you just imagine taking care of 67 kids who look alike? And getting pregnant 27 times? some people find it hard to get pregnant even once, and she got pregnant 27 times??????????]

Talkng about mothers, just last week, I read this article on this girl who is set to become Britain's youngest mother, at the ripe old age of 12.

LONDON: A schoolgirl who became pregnant at 11 is set to break the record for being Britain's youngest mother.

Now aged 12, the Scottish chain-smoker said she was "really excited" about having a child after losing her virginity to a 15-year-old.

She is due to give birth in a few weeks, breaking the record set by Jenny Teague, of Dorset in England's south, who had a baby in 1997 at the age of 12 years and nine months.

The girl, who has not been named, told The Sun newspaper: "I think I'll be able to cope as I've had lots of practice looking after my brothers."

She feared she might be pregnant after having unprotected sex with the boy on a night out with friends in Edinburgh last August.

The pregnancy was confirmed with the help of a supermarket home-testing kit.

Her 34-year-old mother, who had given birth to a boy only days before, was initially unhappy at the pregnancy, but later pledged to support her daughter.

She told the newspaper: "I'm not ashamed of my daughter at all -- in fact, I'm proud of her for keeping her baby."

The mum-to-be, who smokes up to 20 cigarettes a day, according to the newspaper, said she hoped the baby would be a boy, expressing fondness for the name Leo.

"I'm enjoying being pregnant -- even though I get a bit of a sore back and sore ribs," she said.

While the girl was worried about stretch marks, the father-to-be, who can not be identified, could face legal action.

OK...first of all, how can she be smoking 20 ciggies a day when she's 8 months pregnant? This girl said that smoking won't affect the health of the baby. Well dear, if you must know, you have just increased the risk of your baby dying from asthma, if the baby doesn't get infected by some weird disease first. And what scares me is that this girl has been smoking since she was 9 and was consuming alcohol by the time she was 10. And the reason why she got pregnant was because she had unprotected sex with the father of the child (who is sooooo "old" at 15, by the way) when she was drunk!!!!!!! This girl, to me, is the epitome of a "wild child". Talk about a tainted childhood. When I become a mother, I definitely won't force my baby to grow up so fast. Kids need their childhood where they can just play, watch cartoons and be, well, kids and not be some kind of underage adult. Unfortunately, it looks like kids nowadays are growing up wayyyyyyy too fast. That's sad.

I remembered that back in the early 1900's, it's normal in the Malay culture for children to get married by the time they reach puberty. In fact, you were considered a spinster if you were not married by the time you were 20, if I'm not mistaken. So we had all these 14-year-old boys getting married to 12-year-old girls and such. When the British came and Malaya became one of its colony, I think they made it compulsary for the malays to be of a certain age before they can get married because it was pretty uncivilised i guess to get married at 12. And we, being the uncivilised and underdeveloped citizens that we were, followed every single thing that the British said we had to do, so now the people can only got married at the age of 18. But how ironic is it that now a girl in one of the most civilised and developed nation in the world could conceive at the young age of 11? I guess what goes around, comes around. Dunia dah terbalik sekarang....

Exams are in 2 weeks and I am sooo not ready. I'm so lazy to study, and being the typical Malaysian that I am, i am procrastinating and like all of the times before this, I know i will regret procrastinating and will be cursing myself later on. This is a typical Malaysian attitude, and I really should be ashamed for acting like this. But haha, screw it la!

Remember to love your mother!!!!!! They're the reason you're here right now!