Monday Madness

In honor of Mothers Day… let's do some Mother trivial -

• How old was the oldest recorded mother in modern times?
• What is the record of the most children born to one woman?
• Shortest time between birth of siblings - in separate events (not twins, triplets… etc.)?
• What is the longest time between successive siblings?
• What is the record for the most number of children born on the same date but different years?

How old was the oldest recorded mother in modern times?

i seem to remember reading about that not many years ago, i'm sure she was in her early 70's..

all guesses..

1: 72
2: 23
3: 4 months.
4: 36 years
5: this to the same mother? anyway guess 5.

Nice guesses terry… but none of them are correct. #5 - Yes. I meant to one mother.

well i don't want to resort to google just yet so more guesses. 1:- 71 2:- 28 3:- 3 months 4:- 41 years 5:- 8

Let's call #4 close enough. Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1957 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. That makes them 41 years 185 days apart.

ok 1 out of 5 so far.

1:- 73
2:- 31
3:- 5 months
5:- 9

Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1957 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. That makes them 41 years 185 days apart.

you sure i make that 40 years and a few months not 41 years and a few months.

That's because I didn't check my typing.

Belinda was born on May 19, 1956

i take it those last lot of guesses are wrong then.. can you give some clues and say highr or lower for those last numbers and then i'll stop guessing for a while and give some others a chance based on my figures and your clues. a thought popped into my head about that siblings question 3, for some reason 2 weeks or 2 hours stuck but i can't for the life of me think why, after all i would of thought that was impossible and the time would be somewhere along the lines of a few months and an emergency birth. shrugs.

OK…. some "critique" of your answers.

ok 1 out of 5 so far.

1:- 73 - too old
2:- 31 - Not enough
3:- 5 months - Not long enough… and be more specific. Days or at least weeks.
5:- 9 - Too many

1. 70 2. 48 3. 25 weeks 5. 3 (I do know of one case of 2)

#1 - Well done OM960 Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth in India November 2008, at the age of 70 to her first child. #2 - Nope. More. #3 - Nope. Longer. #5 - Well done OM960 Jenna Cotton gave birth to three children on the same date - October 2. Her son, Ayden, arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; son Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006, and daughter Kayla was born Tuesday, which was Oct. 2, 2007. The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million.

To keep this a game like terry1966 I didn't use google. for #1 i remember hearing it on the news, couldn't remember where or when though. #5, the family I know of with the 2 is sorta famous so if 2 was the record I'm sure I wold have remembered that so I added 1.

#2 - Nope. More.

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2. 51 or 54 stick in my mind
3. I'll add 4 weeks to that and guess 29 weeks

grrrrr so close with my first guess of 71, so not low 70's but 70., bloody memory. more than 48 kids.. must be lots of multiply births then. 2 -1 to oldman.. grrrr i'll guess 2:- 49 3:- 27 weeks

#2 - Still more. She did have lots of multiple births. Hint - There were a total of 27 "events". #3 - OM960 is closest so far.

2. 63 3. 31 weeks