What's that Baby Item?
This item is used to keep a baby clean during mealtimes and protect their clothes from food.
What is a bib?
The direction a baby's car seat must face from birth until at least age 2.
What is rear facing?
A caregiver who consistently responds to a baby’s needs, provides comfort, and helps them feel safe is most likely to foster this type of attachment.
What is a secure attachment?
According to old wives' tales... swinging a pregnant woman's wedding ring in a circle over their belly meant this gender.
What is a girl?
In the 1960s, this type of diaper was still commonly used by mothers and required washing and fastening with pins.
What are cloth diapers?
This device allows a parent to hear their baby from another room while the baby sleeps.
What is a baby monitor?
This sleeping position recommended for naps and bedtime, helps lower the risk of SIDS.
What is back sleeping?
Unlike fine motor skills, these skills involve large muscle groups and movements such as running, jumping, and climbing.
What are gross motor skills?
This old wives' tale stated that if you eat a lot of spicy food, this occurs.
What is 'going into labor?'
This invention became an increasingly common part of parenting in the 1980s, allowing parents to hear their baby from another room.
This portable bed has mesh sides and can be folded up for travel.
What is a Pack n' Play (or portable play yard?)
What is a 'fitted sheet?'
Newborns typically need this many hours of sleep.
What is 14 to 17 hours of sleep?
According to an old wives' tale, heartburn during pregnancy supposedly means the baby will be born with this.
What is a full head of hair?
In the 1950s, this household appliance became a major time-saver for mothers by taking over one of the most dreaded household chores.
What is the automatic washing machine?
This modern wearable blanket replaced the need for loose blankets in many babies' sleep environments.
What is a sleep sack?
This food should be avoided for infants below 12 months due to risk of infant botulism.
What is honey?
This developmental milestone is when a baby begins to understand that an object still exists even when it is hidden from view.
According to an old wives’ tale, craving pickles during pregnancy supposedly means you’re having this gender
What is 'a boy?'
In the 1970s, this common baby-feeding practice was becoming more popular as more families moved away from making homemade baby food.
What is commercially prepared baby food?
This device uses a small rubber bulb to suction mucus from a baby's nose.
What is a bulb syringe?
This common fungal yeast infection causes creamy white patches in the mouth and on the tongue that don't easily wipe away.
What is oral thrush, (or oral candidasis?)
Babies are born with several involuntary reflexes, including the “starfish” reflex, which causes them to suddenly throw out their arms and legs in response to a loud noise.
What is the moro reflex?
According to an old wives’ tale, stepping over a broom while pregnant supposedly causes this to happen to the baby.
What is a birthmark?
What major change in car-seat safety became increasingly emphasized in the 1990s to protect babies?
What is keeping infants rear-facing?