Baby Basics
This is the average weight of a newborn.
7.5 pounds
Gestation in humans is this long on average.
40 weeks (280 days)
Kangaroo
Joey
"Twinkle, twinkle, little _____"
Star
This was the most popular baby girl name in 2024.
Olivia
The average length of a newborn (in inches).
20 inches
Most babies are either fashionably early or late, with only this percentage actually arriving on their due date.
3-4%
Goat
Kid/Billy
This tiny critter scurries up the clock in "Hickory Dickory Dock"
A mouse
This was the most popular baby boy name in 2024.
Liam
Babies are born without this bone, something that doesn't fully develop until they're around 10-12 years old.
Kneecaps
Around the world, babies are born at a rate of __ babies per second.
4
Elephant
Calf
Jack has these two characteristics in order to jump over the candlestick.
Nimble and quick
Since 1998, these two months are the most popular for birth rates.
August and September
Honk shoo... newborns sleep this long on average each day.
15-16 hours
In 2019, Erramatti Mangamma from India, gave birth to twins at this age, making her the oldest women to give birth on record.
74
Gorilla
Infant
Jack and Jill went up the hill for this.
A pail of water.
Babies tend to favor this day of the week, making it the most popular day to be born.
Tuesday
The soft spot on a baby's head is called the _______.
Fontanelle
Valentina Vassilyeva holds the record for giving birth to this many babies.
69
Llama
Cria
"Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her _____ and ______."
Curds and whey
Babies got 1% more popular in 2024, as compared to 2023, with this many births.
3.6 million (3,622,673)
2023: 3,596,017