Pregnancy
The number of weeks in a typical pregnancy.
What is 40 weeks
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome
A normal part of child development where young children are unable to properly verbalize their wants or needs and instead act out by crying or screaming.
What is a tantrum
This country has the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the modern Western world.
What is the USA
The fruit that a 40 week baby can be compared to size-wise.
What is a pumpkin OR What is a watermelon
A medical exam that uses sonar (or "echo location") to see inside the belly of a pregnant woman.
What is an ultrasound.
The name for the different developments that typical children reach at certain ages.
What are milestones.
These four words are what PIES stands for.
What is Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social
Teen pregnancy trends have done this since the 1960's.
What is gone down/decreased.
The birth defect characterized by the incomplete closure of the roof of the mouth and upper lip.
What is cleft palate/lip.
A genetic or prenatal issue present in a baby in the womb and at birth.
What is a birth defect.
The frequency that newborns need to be fed, even if it means waking them up.
What is every 2-3 hours
The area of PIES that relates to thinking and problem solving.
What is Intellectual OR What is Cognitive
This many American teens out of 10 will become pregnant before the age of 20.
What is 3 out of 10
The birth defect characterized by the incomplete closing of the spinal cord.
What is Spina Bifida
During the 1950's, pregnant women were widely encouraged to do this in order to keep the unborn baby's weight low and therefore have an easier birth.
What is smoking
The cognitive ability to know that something is present, even when it is underneath something else or hidden.
What is object permanence.
The average age that young children take their first steps.
What is 1 year
Children of teenage parents are twice as likely to not achieve this educational milestone.
What is graduate high school.
The most expensive US State to raise a child from birth to 18.
What is Massachusetts
The name of the "lifeline" that attaches an unborn fetus to its mother, and carries nutrients.
What is the umbilical cord.
The average age at which babies start to realize that someone is a stranger, and will often show anxiety.
What is 6 months
The name for the range of skills required to use the whole body together for tasks like running, playing sports, or dancing?
What are large motor skills.
The single largest contributor to teen pregnancy.
What is poverty
The "miracle drug" from the 1950's that ended up causing severe birth defects in babies around the world.
What is Thalidomide.