Pregnancy quiz

Mom's the word

By Ann Douglas

Questions:

1. Who said, "Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them"?
2. How many sperm make their way toward the egg after a typical episode of baby-making?
3. How wide are fallopian tubes at their widest point?
4. How many babies are born in Canada each day?
5. Who was Dr. Grantley Dick-Read?
6. What French physician pioneered a series of childbirth relaxation methods after being inspired by the teachings of Pavlov?
7. What is your probability of caring your baby to term if a heartbeat is detected via ultrasound at seven weeks' gestation?
8. How many calories does it take to grow a baby?
9. What landmark event in Canadian obstetrical history took place on May 28, 1934?
10. How many years would it take a non-pregnant woman to produce the amount of estrogen that you will produce over the course of your pregnancy?
11. What percentage of North American families with children under the age of 18 have four or more children?
12. In what century was it believed that a woman could tell if she was pregnant if she saw her reflection in her boiled urine?
13. In what year was conception first observed by scientists?
14. What percentage of women will wear a larger shoe size after pregnancy than they did before?
15. Who said, "If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters"?
16. How many sex acts are performed each day around the world?
17. How much does a non-pregnant uterus weigh?
18. In what year did Dr. John Braxton Hicks first describe the contractions that now bear his name?
19. For how many months are elephants pregnant?
20. The use of pain relief during labor came into vogue after what queen demanded chloroform during the birth of her eighth child?
21. In what year was the first episiotomy performed?
22. Who is the Apgar test named after?
23. By what percentage does your pelvis expand when you are squatting?
24. By what percentage has the number of women giving birth in their forties increased since 1970?
25. What percentage of North American births do midwives attend?

Answers:

1. Scarlett O'Hara
2. 500 million
3. 4 mm
4. 973
5. A childbirth education pioneer
6. Ferdinand Lamaze
7. 97%
8. 80,000
9. The birth of the Dionne quintuplets
10. 150 years
11. 4%
12. 17th century
13. 1944
14. 15%
15. Nora Ephron
16. 114 million
17. 2 ounces
18. 1872
19. 21 1/2
20. Queen Victoria
21. 1742
22. Dr. Virginia Apgar
23. 20 to 30%
24. 50%
25. 5%