Women are pretty damn amazing, aren’t we? The fact that we can conceive, grow and birth a human is pretty incredible in itself.

• Beulah Hunter hails from Florida and is considered to have the longest recorded pregnancy which resulted in a live birth. She was pregnant for 12 whopping months and delivered a baby of normal size.
• Stacey Herald is the smallest mother at just two foot and four inches due to a genetic condition that meant that she was born with stunted growth. Stacey was told that she would never successfully carry a baby to term but she proved doctors wrong three times. Two of her children have inherited the condition.
• According to the Guinness World Records, the heaviest baby born was a little Italian boy weighing in at almost 23 pounds.
• Imagine being in labour for 75 days? One mum from Poland did just that. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
• The smallest surviving baby ever born was in 2004. The baby girl weighed in at a tiny 8.6 inches and she was just 10 inches long.
• One mother conceived and gave birth to 69 children in her lifetime. She had 27 pregnancies which included 16 pairs of twins and four sets of quadruplets.
• At ages 72 an Indian woman became the oldest mother to give birth. She gave birth to twins. She and her 75-year-old husband already had two children and five grandchildren.
• In 1990 a baby boy was born with 12 teeth. No gummy baby smiles here!
• One mum from Mozambique gave birth in a tree. In 2000 during extreme flooding, she climbed up a tree to find safety from the Crocodile infested waters. After four days with no food and water, she gave birth to a baby girl and was rescued and airlifted to safety shortly after.
• The average age for a baby to start walking is 12 months but there are a couple of families whose babies started walking at just six months old.