THINGS YOU MIGHT FIND IN YOUR BABY'S LOWER GUT
The first material excreted by babies within 48 hours of birth.
What is meconium?
The first name of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s music director and chief conductor.
What is Yannick?
This process turns food scraps into dirt for your garden.
What is compost?
A putrid smell emanates from the baby because she needs this.
What is a diaper change?
The one ring must be destroyed in the fires of this mountain.
What is Mount Doom?
This bacterium is found more often in babies that are exclusively breastfeeding.
What is Bifidobacterium? (Or Bifidobacterium infantis)
This piece by George Gershwin is a favorite of symphony orchestras.
What is Rhapsody in Blue?
This shrub, the Pennsylvania state flower, can grow in full shade.
What is Mountain Laurel?
It’s been almost three hours since the baby last slept, so she needs this.
What is a nap?
This is the realm of Galadriel and Celeborn.
What is Lorien? (Or Lothlorien)
This gut pathogen is prevalent in babies, among whom it typically does not cause infections.
What is Clostridium difficile? (Or C. difficile, or C. diff)
The challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 was performed during a festival in honor of this composer in spring of 2017.
Who is Sergei Rachmaninoff? (Or Rachmaninoff)
These crops, planted together, are known as the “three sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The baby is sucking her fists, and would like this.
What is feeding or to be fed?
Thorin receives reinforcements from here prior to the Battle of the Five Armies.
What are the Iron Hills?
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What is IgA? (Or Immunoglobulin A)
This piece, performed in February 2020, features the sound of a beheading during the third movement, “March to the Scaffold.”
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
For blue flowers on a hydrangea, add this to the soil.
What is acid (or aluminum or aluminum sulfate)?
It’s looking pretty red down there, so you could probably use some of this.
What is diaper cream (or lotion or ointment)?
Frodo and Samwise meet Gollum here after the breaking of the fellowship.
What is Emyn Muil?
You won’t find these until Clostridium scindens has colonized your baby’s gut.
What are secondary bile acids? (Or lithocholate or lithocholic acid)
This American composer, known for his minimalist early works, was a guest conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2019.
Who is John Adams?
To help garlic make bulbs, this edible part of the plant is harvested in the spring.
What is the scape (or garlic scape)?
Babies love this game because they have no object permanence.
What is peek-a-boo?
Frodo’s sword Sting was forged in this hidden Elvish city during the First Age.
What is Gondolin?