If you forget to buy your mum a card and a little thank you gift on Mothers Day you can forget any hope of getting her to do your washing until next year!

If your old enough to have discovered for yourself how the washing  machine works there will still be some serious time to be spent in the dog house if you forget to treat her on Mothers Day!

Mothers Day Facts

1. 69% of Brits have admitted to missing at least one Mothers Day while 20% have confessed to missing it more than five times!
2. The youngest mother on record was Lina Medina, who delivered a six and a half pound boy by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939 at the age of 5 years and 7 months
3. On April 9th 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a 65 year old retired school teacher in India, became the worlds oldest mother when she gave birth to a baby boy. Satyabhama and her husband had been married 50 years, but this was their first child. The child was conceived through artificial insemination using eggs from the womans 26 year old niece and the sperm of Veenaranis husband.
4. Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for the shortest interval between 2 children being born (who weren’t twins, triplets, etc.). She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3rd 1999 and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30th 2000. The babies were born 208 days apart.
5. Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of 2 children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19th 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.
6. August is the month when most babies are born, which means there must be a lot of romance in the air every November.
7. There are more phone calls made on Mothers Day than on any other day of the year
8. 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 she gave birth to 18 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
9. 24.8 is the average age of women when they give birth for the first time. This has risen nearly 3 years since 1970.
10. A women becomes pregnant most easily at the age of 18 or 19, with little real change until the mid 20s. There is then a slow decline to the age of 35, a sharper decline until the age of 45 and a very rapid decline as the women nears menopause
11. The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1 in 33. Her odds of having triplets or other multiple births is 1 in 539
12. Tuesday is most common day of the week on which babies are born