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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