All I can say is, I am so grateful I am not an Elephant! I complain that 9 months is way to long, well....being pregnant for 9 months is a piece of cake. An elephant is pregnant for 22 months. Labor is usually at the most 24 hours. An elephant is in labor for 3 days. I will most likely give birth to a baby that weighs 7-9 lbs. The birth weight of a baby elephant is 250 lbs. YIKES! The average time for nursing a baby is 1 year. An elephant nurses for 3 years. A newborn baby eats 2-4 oz. of milk per day. A baby elephant eats 3 gallons of milk per day. When you bathe a newborn baby, they are clean and smell good. When a baby elephant bathes, he will spray dirt on himself to get the parasites off, and sometimes even bathe in mud. And last but not least a baby elephant poops 80 lbs. per day. These are great things to remember when a complaint about pregnancy, labor or dirty diapers come my way.
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Oh geez. I am grateful you are not an elephant either. That would really put a strain on our friendship.
YIKES!! That would have put a strain on me as your mother!!
HA HA I just thought of me being an elephant and you two trying to be my friend and mother.... it made me laugh really hard!! I am grateful I am not one either, there are many things I wouldn't get to do.... can you imagine me trying to sew.... oh geez!
So funny I was just thinking of the same thing when I was listening to good things utah when they said two years I was like O my goodness! You look amazing pregos!
i must say I am impressed with how much you know about elephants!! haha cute post..i too am glad your not an elephant!
If you were an elephant and gestated for 22 months, I would not be able to keep your mother out of the insane asylum and there would be no one to help you once the baby finally arrived, except for maybe me, so I am really grateful that you are a human and have less than 20 weeks to keep your mom breathing!
ohhhh ashley, you totally make me laugh. i must agree very impressive you know so much about an elephant. either way, you look adorable pregnant.
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