Mum's the Word

4. There are about .... billion mums in the world
5. Social activist Julia Ward Howe first brought the idea of Mother's Day to the United States after the .... War, envisioning it as a day in which mothers would protest against war
6. Scientists suspect that a tweak to human mums’ breast tissue helped some populations survive the last .... (two words)
9. The mother who gives birth to the largest baby on Earth is a mother ...... After enduring 22 months of pregnancy, she gives birth to a blind, 200-pound calf
11. Mother's Day is one of the busiest days of the year for ..........
14. On average, mums take 2 minutes 5 seconds to change a ..... Fathers take an average of 1 minute 36 seconds
17. The first episode of the famous tv-show How I Met Your ..... came out in 2005
18. In India, people celebrate Durga-puja, a festival that pays homage to the mother goddess, .....
19. The sound of a mum's voice lowers a child's ....., the stress hormone
20. The African Black ...... typically will lay two eggs. After they hatch, the mother will just feed one of the chicks. The other chick is usually pecked to death by the other chick while the mother looks on
21. The mum with the most kids is Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev of ..... She gave birth to 69 children between 1725 and 1765

1. The fetal heart races faster when hearing its mother's ...... instead of a stranger's
2. Since Mother's Day always falls on a Sunday in America, attending ...... services ranks as a popular activity among families there
3. During pregnancy, mums and children exchange cells through their connection with the .....
4. According to ONS data from 2021, about … in twenty parents in the UK are raising kids without a spouse or partner.
7. A study of nearly 1.5 million Holstein .... mums showed they churn out more milk for daughters, to the tune of hundreds of extra gallons per year per animal.
8. Many mammal mamas carry kids on the ....
10. For ......babies, skin-to-skin contact with a mother improves health
12. ...... mothers carry the babies of another couple
13. Polar bear mums put on around 400 pounds during their pregnancy. If the mother doesn’t double her weight, her body will simply ..... the fetus
15. Spain and Portugal celebrate Mother's Day on the 8th of ....., honouring both the Virgin Mary and their own mums on the same day
16. Mother's Day is the ...... highest selling holiday for flowers and plants