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This Dr. Seuss classic begins with two bored children stuck inside on a rainy day—until a mischievous visitor in a striped hat shows up.
What is The Cat in the Hat?
This activity, which can begin during pregnancy, helps babies hear new words, recognize your voice, and build early language skills.
What is reading to your baby?
This is the term for removing milk by latch, hand, or pump to maintain milk production and provide milk.
What is breastfeeding?
Under the expanded WIC food package, families can now choose from tuna, salmon, and sardines in this newly expanded food category.
What is canned fish?
This poet gave us the iconic poem "Still I Rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
In this popular children's book, a very hungry insect eats his way through apples, pears, plums, strawberries, and more before becoming a butterfly.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
Around 6 months old, many babies are ready to begin trying these in addition to breast milk or formula.
What are solid foods?
This breastfeeding position has the parent leaning back comfortably while baby lies tummy-down against their body.
What is laid-back?
Peach, strawberry-banana, and mango are examples of newly expanded WIC choices for this food.
What is yogurt?
This author wrote The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Celie.
Who is Alice Walker?
This bestselling novel follows four friends—Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria—as they navigate love, careers, and relationships. It later became an iconic 1995 movie.
What is Waiting to Exhale?
This activity gives babies a chance to strengthen their neck, shoulder, and arm muscles while they're awake and supervised.
What is tummy time?
This is the first milk your body makes after birth. It is thick, nutrient-rich, and often called "liquid gold"
What is colostrum?
Corn masa flour, pita bread, whole-wheat bagels, and whole-wheat English muffins are new choices in this WIC food group.
What are whole grains?
This author introduced generations of readers to Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This famous young-adult series begins when a girl named Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a mysterious classmate named Edward Cullen.
What is Twilight?
This classic game involves hiding your face behind your hands and suddenly reappearing.
What is peek-a-boo?
What is the term for the frequent, closely spaced feeding sessions that a breastfed baby may have, often occurring in the evening or at night, and are a normal part of establishing a milk supply and meeting the baby's needs?
What is cluster feeding?
With the expanded WIC food package, participants can swap their juice benefit for this much more in fruits and vegetables each month.
What is $3?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “Harlem,” which famously asks what happens to a “dream deferred.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This bestselling novel by Sister Souljah follows Winter Santiaga, the privileged teenage daughter of a Brooklyn drug kingpin.
What is The Coldest Winter Ever?
Pediatricians recommend reading to your baby for at least this many minutes per day during their first year of life to support language development and bonding.
What is 15-20 minutes?
When a baby has a deep latch, you typically see more of this darker area of the breast above baby's top lip than below the bottom lip.
What is the areola?
With the expanded WIC foods, this type of milk is now available as an alternative option for eligible participants alongside choices such as lactose-free milk.
What is plant-based milk?
This legendary author wrote Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon.
Who is Toni Morrison?