Baby Facts
Also known as monozygotic twins, a mom can expect to have these type of twins when an embryo splits in two.
What are identical twins?
These go “round and round” in this public transit vehicle.
What is “The Wheels on the Bus”?
An animated film where Alec Baldwin voices a suit-wearing baby “in charge”.
What is “Boss Baby”?
An item, also known as a “binky” or “soother” that is bound to calm baby and give parents a little peace and quiet.
What is a pacifier?
The name for the span of physical activities in childbirth that can range from minutes to days long.
What is labor?
This body part accounts for about one-quarter of a newborn's entire weight.
What is the head?
A popular nursery rhyme, in which the rain washed away this small arachnid creature.
What is “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”?
Ansel Elgort stars as a young getaway driver who finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
What is "Baby Driver"?
A thin blanket used to wrap up a young baby and also the name for the technique.
What is a swaddle?
An anesthetic injected into the space around the spinal cord is sure to make for a more “peaceful” birthing experience.
What is an epidural?
A food seasoning a baby cannot taste until it is 4 months old. The delay may be related to the development of kidneys.
Salt
A popular nursery rhyme where a rodent scaled a a time-telling machine.
What is “Hickory Dickory Dock”?
Based on a popular book series, seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
What is "Baby-Sitters Club"?
Marion Donovan invented an alternative to this item by developing an envelope-like plastic cover with an absorbent insert.
What is a diaper?
What is the uterus?
The scientific name for a newborn child (or mammal) that is an infant less than 4 weeks of age.
What is a neonate?
A popular lullaby whose lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor, The Star.
What is “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”?
Bette Davis stars as a former child star who torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
What is "What Happened to Baby Jane"?
The LATCH system was made widely available after 2002 to facilitate safe and secure installation of this item.
What is a car seat?
The name for false labor contractions often experienced in late pregnancy.
What is Braxton Hicks?
This common infant reflex is tested on the sole of the foot.
What is the Babinski (or plantar) reflex?
A French nursery rhyme with the English translation “Brother John”.
What Frère Jacques?
John Water's classic set in 1950s Baltimore, where a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge.
What is "Cry Baby"?
Patented on June 20, 1854, this medical device was invented by O.H. Needham.
What is a breast pump?
This test is performed 15-18 weeks of pregnancy to detect fetal genetic disorders.
What is an amniocentesis?