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It Figures! Mommy Matters

• Calories per day mothers burn breastfeeding: Up to 700

• Minutes they'd have to spend jogging to burn off the same number of calories: 76

• Mothers who say they'd be happy with flowers for Mother's Day: 10%

• Mothers who say they'd like a romantic weekend away from the kids: 55%

• Odds of a woman having triplets: 1 in 540

• Number of triplets delivered June 11, 2009, at The Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston: 3

• Number of hits in one week Manhattan celebrity chef Daniel Angerer got on his web site early in 2010 when the new dad posted a recipe for breast-milk cheese: 70,000

• Number of U.S. mothers who donated breast milk for South African orphans to the Minnesota-based International Breast Milk Project in 2006, the program's first year: Fewer than 10

• Number who've donated milk since then: More than 1250

• Gallons supplied by the most generous donor: 54

• Number of hospitals in the U.S. that provide obstetricians with smart phones, which enable them to monitor fetal heartbeats of patients in labor even, if they're far from the hospital: more than 160

Sources: Babytalk, Coolnurse.com, M2 Communications, Census.gov, The Houston Chronicle, Dayton Daily News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, People Weekly, PRWeb, Breastmilkproject.org

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