There's a baby in there!???
Special delivery
Tiny humans
Lila or August?
Lila or August pt 2
100

Anytime after this number of weeks, a pregnancy is considered full-term:

37 weeks

100

Labor takes on average this long (from start til finish) for a first-time mother

12-24 hours 

100

Newborns sleep this many hours per day on average

14-17 hours

100

Which one was born with a near-constant little furrow of worry in their eyebrows that their family called “stinky face”

Lila 

100

This one's parents used to put them in the car and drive around aimlessly to get them to fall asleep

August 

200

This organ is the first to start functioning in a developing embryo

The heart

200

Nabies are often born with a cone head for this reason

Unfused skull bones 

200

Newborns can only see up to this far away from their face at birth 

8–12 inches, roughly the distance to a caregiver's face during feeding


200

Which one, instead of sucking their thumb, instead sucked their middle and ring finger?

August

200

Some of which one's earliest words were “fama mah-ket” because their dad took them to the farmer’s market every single Saturday?

August

300

During pregnancy, blood volume increases by about this percentage

30-50%

300

This percentage of first-time mothers deliver exactly on their due date (+/- 10 % points)

4-5%

300

Newborns on average use this many diapers per month (in the first few months)

240-360 diapers per month

300

Which one carried around a stuffed animal dog (creatively named “Doggy”) everywhere they went, and they still have it today?

Lila

300

Which one needed forceps during delivery? (Hint: who loves to stay comfy inside?)

Lila 


400

In the womb, babies produce this surprising amount of urine per day in late pregnancy

up to ~1 liter per day (1L = 33 oz)

400

Unlike regular baby stool, this substance is thick, sticky, tar-like, and dark green or black in color

Meconium

400

At birth, babies have about this many bones—more than adults (206 bones)

Up to 300 bones!

  • Extra bones with large amounts of cartilage that fuse later on, mostly located in the spine and joints of long bones 
  • Also why they DON'T HAVE KNEECAPS AT BIRTH!?
400

Which one made up a toilet song called “Thumbody Wipe My Tooshie” to call their parents over when they were being potty-trained 

Lila

400

Which one smeared butter on their mom’s arm as an angry toddler jealous of the attention their new younger sibling was getting?

Lila



500

Some pregnant people develop cravings for non-food items like ice or clay—this condition is called this.

Pica

500

The vast majority of babies born via vaginal delivery are born with their head in what position relative to mom’s pelvis (Aka which way do they face?) 

Occiput anterior (face da booty)

500

In the first hours after birth, a healthy newborn’s heart rate can be this fast: (Adults normal HR: 60-100 bpm)

120- 160 bpm

500

Which one wanted to name the baby Cedar but the other one nixed it

August 

500