Fascinating

**A 69 year old woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl. This woman holds the record.

**In the year 2000, the average age of a woman giving birth for the first time was 25 years old.

**In Niger, Africa woman have an average of 7.5 children, the highest average in the world.

**In the United States a woman can expect 2.0 children in her lifetime.

**Utah tops the birth rate in U.S at 2.6 children.

**4 million women give birth in the U.S every year.

**Most popular day and month to give birth is a Tuesday in July.

**Jacob and Emily have been at the top of the most popular names for several years.

**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.

**LONDON - A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is believed to the first case of its kind, a hospital official said Friday.
Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to three girls in September, said Richard Dottle, a spokesman for Southmead Hospital in Bristol where the babies were born. The children spent nine weeks in the hospital.
The girls — identical twins delivered from one womb and a single baby from the other — were delivered by Caesarean section seven weeks early, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported
**Bobby McCaughey gave birth to septuplets in November of 1997.

**The ratio of baby girls versus baby boys has stayed constant over the last 60 years.

**Multiple births has increased 400 percent over the last 20 years.

Which one of these newsworthy headlines

caused the Spurgeon kids to react like this:

(Actual pictures, not re-enacted.)

Elizabeth: "Are you serious?"

Kenley: No words, just smiles.

Dallin: Scared face followed by disbelief.

Dallin: "You're kidding, right?"

Britton: (thought bubble) ("I have no idea what you're talking about.")

Cameron: Just a big grin.

Actually, it was none of the above headlines, it was this one.

"Middle aged mother of 5 in Pasco announces that in early 2009 they will be expanding their home by two feet."