Baby Anatomy
True or False: A baby has less taste buds than an adult.
What is False?
A baby has appx 30,000 taste buds - three times more than most adults. Infants have taste buds on the tongue as well as sides, back and roof of the mouth.
The first thing consumed by the very hunger caterpillar.
What is an apple?
Jack was nimble and quick when he jumped over this.
What is a candlestick?
True or False: Red is the first color babies are able to recognize.
What is True?
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
What is "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish"?
A baby is born in the world every _________ seconds.
What is three?
A baby is born with approximately how many bones?
What is 300?
In this book they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth.
What is "Where the Wild Things Are"?
Little Miss Muffet was eating these two things before being scared away
What are curds and whey?
A baby's ability to see color and depth is mostly developed by what age?
What is 5 months old?
"And she loved a boy very, very much - even more than she loved herself."
What is "The Giving Tree"?
An average baby goes through approximately ________ diapers per year.
What is 2700 diapers?
A newborn baby has the equivalent of ______ cups of blood in its body?
What is 1 cup?
In this book lowercase letters climb a coconut tree in alphabetical order.
What is "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"?
A famous piece of English architecture collapses in this nursery rhyme.
What is "London Bridge is Falling Down"?
Babies can't taste this flavor profile until 4 months old...
A.) Sweet B.) Salt C.) Sour
What is salt?
Babies cannot taste salt until they are a third of the way through their 1st year of life. Scientists suspect this is related to kidney development as kidneys do not start to process sodium until a baby is 4 months old.
"The more he gave away, the more delighted he became."
What is "The Rainbow Fish"?
On average, more babies are born at this hour of the day than any other time.
What is 8:00 am?
Babies stomachs are the size of what item during infancy:
A.) a Quarter B.) a Hazelnut C.) a Ping Pong Ball
What is a Hazelnut?
This three letter name is the name of the furry title character in this touch and feel children's book.
What is Pat (from "Pat the Bunny")?
Mary's garden grew silver bells and these.
What are cockle shells?
True or False:
Babies have the ability to smell while still in the womb.
What is True?
Around the 25th week of pregnancy, a fetus starts to breath amniotic fluid which enhances olfactory receptors making it easier for babies to smell things.
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
What is "The Lorax"?
Worldwide, more babies are born on this day of the week.
What is Tuesday?
It takes six months for these to develop in a baby.
What are kneecaps?
This popular children's book first published in 1922 is also know as "How Toys Become Real".
What is "The Velveteen Rabbit"?
What time was it when the mouse ran down the clock?
What is One O'clock?
True or False: Several sensory organs are completely developed before birth.
What is False?
Only one sensory organ is fully developed before the baby is born: the inner ear. By week 20 of pregnancy, the baby's inner ear has reached its final adult size.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
What is "Oh! The Places You'll Go!"?
Babies born in this month tend to weigh more than babies born in other months.
What is May? No one knows why but statistics show that babies born in May tend to weigh an average of 7 ounces more than babies born in other months of the year.