Facts and Myth
This is roughly how many diapers a newborn uses daily during the first few weeks of life.
What is 10-12?
This name, a short form of William, has held the #1 spot in popularity of boys born in the USA.
What is Liam?
Beyoncé and Jay-Z named their eldest daughter this. Two days after her birth, her father recorded her cries and used them on his song "Glory."
What/Who is Blue Ivy?
This lullaby ends with a cradle falling out of a treetop, bough and all.
What is Rock-a-Bye Baby?
You'll find this baby in Australia with its mama kangaroo.
What is a joey?
What is sugar?
This name saw a fresh surge after 1997 thanks to a boy wizard, though it long predates that franchise and was already common in Britain.
What is Harry?
Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter after this fruit, saying it sounded "sweet and functional."
What is Apple?
In this rhyme a small creature perseveres over gravity and precipitation.
What is "The Itsy Bitsy Spider?"
This kit's parent is not a cat.
What is a fox?
Pediatricians recommend this sleep position for infants specifically because it lowers the risk of SIDS.
What is on the back?
This popular name, often spelled with an "e," actually traces to the Irish Aodhán and means "little fire," not anything related to poetry.
What is Aiden?
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West named their first daughter after this compass direction.
What is North (West)?
This rhyme features a sheep herder whose flock is missing. It's implied the herder is not really that important because the animals will find their own way home.
What is "Little Bo Peep"?
This baby's name is derived from the old French of it's parent's name, cigne.
What is a cygnet/baby swan.
Teething gets blamed for this, but research shows it causes only a mild version of this.
What is a fever?
This short, one-syllable Scandinavian name literally means "bear."
What is Bjorn?
This tech billionaire named his first child with Grimes a string of letters and numbers, later adjusting it to comply with California's rule against numerals in legal names.
Who is Elon Musk?
This rhyme's titular shepherd naps while the field animals destroy the crops.
What is "Little Boy Blue"?
A baby hare is called this — not the same word used for a baby rabbit.
What is a leveret?
More than three quarters of all Caucasian babies are born with this eye color, even though many shift in the first year.
What is blue?
This president's nickname became the name of a toy after a famous 1902 hunting trip where he refused to shoot a captured bear cub.
Teddy Roosevelt/Teddy
This royal was third in line to the British throne at birth in 2013, but moved up to second after his great-grandmother's death in 2022.
Who is Prince George?
This rhyme about falling down is often linked by folk legend to the plague, though most language historians reject that origin as too recent an invention to fit the historical timeline.
What is "Ring-Around-the-Rosie"?
A baby platypus, hatched from an egg rather than born live, is called this. It is not the same as a non-magic person in Harry Potter's world, even if it sounds similar.
What is a puggle?