Giant Panda Cub Math
A baby panda stays in its mother's uterus for about this long.
A) 3-5 months B) 6-8 months C) 10-12 months D) 15-18 months E) 24 months F) 36 months
What is A) 3 to 5 months?
Moriah will not be able to taste salt until she is this old.
A) 4 days B) 4 weeks C) 6 weeks D) 2 months E) 4 months F) 4 years
What is E) 4 months old?
This character went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone.
Who is Old Mother Hubbard?
Another name for false labor pains.
What is Braxton Hicks?
This cranial bone is currently not yet fused in the baby.
What is the skull?
Newborn panda cubs weigh, on average, this fraction of its mom’s weight.
A) 20% B) 10% C) 5% D) 1% E) 0.1%
What is E) 0.1%?
Moriah’s kneecaps will not develop completely until she is at least this old.
A) 4 weeks B) 4 months C) 6 months D) 8 months E) 10 months F) 1 year
What is C) at least 6 months old?
This merry old soul called for a pipe, a bowl, and three fiddlers.
Who is Old King Cole?
The procedure doctors sometimes perform to make the vaginal opening for the baby larger.
What is an episiotomy?
The tissue that connects the mother and the developing baby.
What is the umbilical cord?
Newborn panda cubs stay in almost constant body contact with their moms for this long, due to their immature development.
A) 3-4 weeks B) 6-9 weeks C) 3-4 months D) 5-6 months E) 7-9 months F) 10-12 months
What is A) 3-4 weeks?
Moriah will likely first smile socially when she is this old.
A) 7-9 days B) 2-3 weeks C) 4-6 weeks D) 7-9 weeks E) 10-12 weeks F) 4-6 months
What is C) 4-6 weeks?
These characters went to the sea in a beautiful pea-green boat.
Who are the Owl and the Pussycat?
The percentage of babies are born on their actual due date.
What is 4%?
The squishy area on top of a baby’s head.
What is a fontanelle or soft spot?
A Giant panda mama will spend this percentage of her time caring for her cub for the first 3 months.
A) 15% B) 25% C) 50% D) 80% E) 95%
What is D) 80%?
Moriah’s head will likely be this proportion to her total body length.
A) 1:3 B) 1:4 C) 1:5 D) 1:6 E) 1:7 F) 1:8
What is B) 1:4?
He met a pie man while going to the fair.
Who is Simple Simon?
A non-medical professional who provides guidance through a childbirth.
What is a doula?
The number of bones in a newborn baby.
What is 300?
Panda cubs are weaned at about one year old, but they begin to eat bamboo when they are this old
A) At birth B) 2 weeks C) 9 weeks
D) 9 months E) 6 months F) 12 months
What is E) 6 months?
During her nine months between conception and birth, Moriah’s weight will increase by this much.
A) 300 times B) 300,000 times C) 1,000 million times D) 3,000 million times E) 300,000 million times
What is D) 3,000 million times?
This is the number of blackbirds that were baked in a pie.
What is Four and twenty.
The APGAR checks these signs 1 minute and 5 minutes after the birth of a baby.
What are Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace response (reflexes), Activity (muscle tone) and Respiration (breathing rate and effort)
The only sense that is fully developed at birth in babies.
What is hearing?