Pregnancy wonders
During pregnancy, the uterus expands to about this size from its original size of a pear.
What is the size of a watermelon?
In this Scandinavian country, babies often nap outside in sub-zero temperatures, as it's meant to improve their immune systems and increase sleep length.
What is Norway?
This famous baby lullaby warns that if the wind blows, the cradle will fall.
What is Rock-a-bye Baby?
This hormone, released during breastfeeding and bonding, is nicknamed the "love hormone".
What is oxytocin?
This unnecessary postpartum surgical practice, sometimes performed without consent until the 1980s, was falsely claimed to "restore" women after childbirth
What is the "husband stitch"?
Which of our 5 senses, do babies develop first in the womb?
What is touch?
In Bali, newborns are not allowed to touch the ground until they reach this age.
What is 105 days old?
This modern baby song has amassed over 15.34 billion views on Youtube as of November 2024.
What is 'Baby Shark'?
Most new parents lose this many hours of sleep in their baby's first year.
What is 700 hours?
Until recently, this common wardrobe item was incorrectly "prescribed" to postpartum women to "get their body back".
What are corsets/belly binders?
This body part grows bigger during pregnancy and never fully returns to its original size.
What are the feet?
In this South American country, babies often receive red bracelets or charms to protect them from the "evil eye". These bracelets are believed to ward off negative energy and protect the child from harm.
What is Brazil?
This hit song was originally created in 2003 as a mobile ringtone, which garnered popularity and eventually became a worldwide sensation among kids.
What is "Crazy Frog"?
Babies that consume this before 6 months of age can experience an imbalance in sodium levels, leading to seizures, comas, brain damage, and death.
What is water?
This drug was prescribed to pregnant women throughout the 1950s and 1960s to treat nausea and morning sickness, and was responsible for severe birth deformities in over 10,000 babies worldwide.
What is thalidomide?
This hormone in men will drop by 30-40% during their partner's pregnancy and after birth, which biology suggests helps promote nurturing behavior
What is Testosterone?
In this country, men dressed as devils leap over rows of newborn babies to cleanse them of sin, which Christians believe all human beings carry as a result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience towards God in the Garden of Eden.
What is Spain?
This rhyme is one of the most popular and well known in the English-speaking world, with an origin story dating back to 1014, and involving a viking attack in the British Isles.
Research conducted by the University of Helsinki found that babies can be soothed by ____ based on their time in the womb?
What is the mother's favorite music, or music taste?
This archaic belief suggested that having too much of this during pregnancy would cause the baby to be "too big to deliver".
What is food/eating?
During pregnancy, some fathers experience _____, developing physical symptoms like weight gain, nausea, and even abdominal pain.
What is Couvade Syndrome ("sympathetic pregnancy")?
This religious custom is performed in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, where mohels (circumcisers) use their mouths to suck away blood after the circumcision of a baby boy. Not only are circumcisions now considered contraversial, but there are several cases of babies contracting HSV-1 from this practice.
What is Metzitzah B'Peh?
Queen Mary I of England, known as "Bloody Mary," had nearly 300 Protestants burned alive at the stake during her reign, their screams echoing through the streets as she sought to restore Catholicism. Some were pregnant women, their unborn children perishing in the flames with them. It's Bloody Mary who is supposedly symbolized in this nursery rhyme.
What is "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary"?
This diamond-shaped patch at the top of your baby's head is where the skull bones have not yet fused, and is informally known as 'the soft spot'.
What are the fontanelles?
This state of amnesia involved heavily sedating women with a cocktail of morphine and scopolamine for a "painless" birth. However, given how precise the doses needed to be, many women overdosed, and the practice slowly lost popularity.
What is "Twilight Sleep"?