Pregnancy
The medical term "geriatric pregnancy" refers to a mom who is this age or older.
What is 35 years?
In the 1800s, parents hung these metal objects over cribs to ward off evil spirit
What are charms or amulets?
A litter of puppies is born after about this many weeks of gestation.
What is 9 weeks?
This is the first sense a fetus develops.
What is a sense of touch?
This cord connects the baby to the placenta.
What is the umbilical cord?
This is the term for the first sensations of fetal movements.
In ancient Greece, babies were named after this family member on the seventh day after birth.
Who is the grandfather?
Male emperor penguins balance their egg on their feet and keep it warm for this amount of time.
What is two months?
The fetus drinks this fluid regularly-- and then, well, recycles it.
What is amniotic fluid (aka, fetal pee water)?
What is the average weight of the placenta?
This is said to cause the "pregnancy glow."
What is increased blood flow?
Medieval parents sometimes put this in the baby’s cradle to protect it — and no, it’s not a teddy bear.
What is garlic?
This animal has the longest pregnancy of any land animal.
What is an elephant? (22 months)
Babies can recognize this sound right after birth.
What is their mother/father's voice?
The word “placenta” comes from Latin for this type of baked good.
The very first pregnancy test ever invented used this small amphibian to detect hormones.
What is a frog?
What is an onion?
This animal can get pregnant again while already pregnant.
What is a cat?
Fetuses spend about X percent of time asleep, especially in late pregnancy.
What is 90-95%?
The placenta is sometimes nicknamed this because of its branching blood vessels.
What is the "tree of life"?
The uterus can grow up to X times its normal size during pregnancy.
What is 500?
In 18th-century France, babies' diapers were often made from this fabric.
What is silk?
A newborn giraffe drops this distance to the ground when it is born.
What is 6 feet?
Babies can taste the flavors of what their mothers eat around this gestational age.
What is 13-15 weeks?
In ancient Egypt, the placenta was considered this kind of sacred object?
What is a "second soul" or twin spirit?