Well, today is Wednesday, otherwise known as Hump Day. We've made it through the hardest part of the week and now it's smooth sailing till the weekend. In honor of this, I have decided to devote my Wednesday blog posts to randomness and fun. Enjoy!
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This weeks theme is: PARENTING
(make sure to visit the links for expanded Hump Day fun)
This weeks theme is: PARENTING
Hump Day Photo
Hump Day Random Facts
The world's youngest mother gave birth to a son at the age of 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days. The world's oldest mother gave birth to a daughter at the ripe young age of 70.
The sex of a baby is determined by the father's sperm. An egg only has X chromosomes (the female gene), but a sperm has both an X and a Y. So don't let them give you a hard time for always having girls!
A new baby usually causes each of its parents to lose around 350-400 hours of sleep in their first year of sleep. (that's a whole nights sleep per week, per parent. Or 14-16 full days!)
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Men are faster at changing babies!! They only take an average of 1 minute 36 seconds to go from dirty to clean, while its takes women an average of 2 minutes and 5 seconds. This should provide an ample excuse to make the dads handle 2am changings.
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The average baby goes through around 5,000 to 7,000 diapers from birth to potty-training. (and it takes around 500 years for a diaper to decompose)
Hump Day Recommended Book
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.
Hump Day Video
Hump Day Sign Photo
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