Baby Math
This adorable milestone, usually appearing around 2 to 4 months, is a baby’s first vocal attempt at communication before actual babbling begins.
What is cooing?
According to sleep researchers, new parents lose an average of this many hours of sleep during their baby's first year of life.
What is 350-400?
This traditionally hangs over a baby's head in the crib.
What is a mobile?
According to this popular myth, if a pregnant mom is carrying the baby low and out front, she is supposedly having a baby of this gender.
What is a boy?
This phrase describes an incredibly easy task, often compared to taking sweet treats from an infant.
What is like taking candy from a baby?
Most babies learn to transition themselves up into this position without help between 7 and 9 months of age.
What is sitting?
A newborn's vision is incredibly blurry at birth, only able to focus clearly on objects or faces that are roughly this many inches away.
What is 8 to 12?
A baby uses this to scoot around the house.
What is a walker?
This severe, fiery digestive symptom suffered by the mother during pregnancy is traditionally said to mean the baby will be born with a full head of hair.
What is heartburn?
This common warning warns against accidentally destroying something valuable or good while trying to get rid of something unwanted.
What is throwing out the baby with the bath water?
This percentage of babies arrive on their due date.
What is 4-5%?
A baby is born with a stomach that is roughly the size of this small, sweet summer fruit on day one, expanding to the size of an egg by day ten.
What is a cherry?
This device helps soothe babies gum.
What is a teether?
If a pregnant woman suddenly develops a intense craving for sweet things like fruit and ice cream, old wives' tales claim she is carrying a baby of this gender.
What is a girl?
Someone who is highly sensitive, easily upset, or overreacts to minor discomforts is often called this alliterative two-word phrase.
What is a cry baby?
While a baby's brain grows to 90% of its adult size by age 5, scientists now know that full human brain development and maturation isn't actually complete until this age.
What is 25?
This major organ, which consumes roughly 20% of an adult's metabolic energy, consumes an astonishing 60% of a baby's energy intake.
What is the brain?
This item is small, portable, and designed for newborn babies to sleep in.
What is a bassinet?
If the pregnant mother becomes clumsy, frequently tripping over her own feet or dropping objects, the old wives' tale says she is carrying this gender.
What is a boy?
This historical idiom refers to a minor task or project that someone protects fiercely because it was their own original idea or creation.
What is their "baby"?
On average, this is the number of diapers a baby goes thru in the first week.
What is 70?
The number of bones that babies are born with.
What is 300?
A motorized device that rocks a baby to sleep that also happens to be a high-energy playground apparatus with a seat attached to chains.
What is a swing?
This lunar phenomenon is widely believed by labor and delivery nurses to cause a massive spike in hospital admissions and spontaneous water breaks.
What is a full moon?
This phrase describes someone who is resting incredibly deeply and peacefully, completely undisturbed by the world around them.
What is sleeping like a baby