New Baby Life
This protected period following childbirth allows parents time to recover, bond with their newborn, and adjust to new routines.
What is maternity leave?
This NIH program studies how early environmental influences affect child health and development across the lifespan.
What is the ECHO Program?
This safety device requires at least a 20-minute engineering effort to install correctly in a vehicle.
What is a car seat?
This is a newborns most developed sense at birth.
What is smell?
Pediatricians recommend placing babies in this position to sleep safely.
What is on their back?
This is the official mission statement of the NIH ECHO Program.
What is “To enhance the health of children for generations to come”?
This nursery device produces consistent background sound to help infants sleep more soundly.
What is a white noise machine?
At this age babies start to crawl.
what is 6-10 months?
This unexpected diaper situation often requires a full outfit change - for both baby and parent. Also a term used for a hair styling technique.
What is a blowout?
The observational research arm of ECHO that follows mothers and children long-term is known by this name.
What is the ECHO Cohort? (ECHO Cohort Consortium)
This absorbent garment can hold surprising amounts of liquid but somehow still fails during the most inconvenient moments.
What is a diaper?
This is something that people often say to pregnant women.
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This reflex causes newborns to turn their head and open their mouth when their cheek is touched.
What is the rooting reflex?
As of 2024, the ECHO Cohort includes data from more than this number of participants.
What is "over 100,000"?
This wheeled transportation device somehow becomes a mobile storage unit for snacks, toys, wipes, and mysterious crumbs.
What is a stroller?
This is the average weight of a baby in the US.
What is 7 pounds?
This soothing method involves tightly wrapping a baby like a tiny burrito.
What is swaddling?
ECHO research focuses on five major pediatric outcome areas, including these periods surrounding birth:
What are pre-, peri-, and postnatal periods/ outcomes?
This item helps infants sit upright during feeding and is typically introduced around 4-6 months.
What is a high chair?
This animal's milk is most similar to human breast milk.
What is a donkey?