What's that Baby Item?
Baby Basics
Overall Child Development
Old Wives Tales
Motherhood Through the Decades
100

This item is used to keep a baby clean during mealtimes and protect their clothes from food.

What is a bib?

100

The direction a baby's car seat must face from birth until at least age 2.

What is rear facing?

100

A caregiver who consistently responds to a baby’s needs, provides comfort, and helps them feel safe is most likely to foster this type of attachment.

What is a secure attachment?

100

According to old wives' tales... swinging a pregnant woman's wedding ring in a circle over their belly meant this gender.

What is a girl?

100

In the 1960s, this type of diaper was still commonly used by mothers and required washing and fastening with pins.

What are cloth diapers?

200

This device allows a parent to hear their baby from another room while the baby sleeps.

What is a baby monitor?

200

This sleeping position recommended for naps and bedtime, helps lower the risk of SIDS.

What is back sleeping?

200

Unlike fine motor skills, these skills involve large muscle groups and movements such as running, jumping, and climbing.

What are gross motor skills?

200

This old wives' tale stated that if you eat a lot of spicy food, this occurs. 

What is 'going into labor?' 

200

This invention became an increasingly common part of parenting in the 1980s, allowing parents to hear their baby from another room.

What is the baby monitor?
300

This portable bed has mesh sides and can be folded up for travel.

What is a Pack n' Play (or portable play yard?)

300
The only item that should be inside a newborn's crib on top of firm mattress to ensure safe sleep

What is a 'fitted sheet?'

300

Newborns typically need this many hours of sleep.

What is 14 to 17 hours of sleep?

300

According to an old wives' tale, heartburn during pregnancy supposedly means the baby will be born with this.




What is a full head of hair?

300

In the 1950s, this household appliance became a major time-saver for mothers by taking over one of the most dreaded household chores.

What is the automatic washing machine?

400

This modern wearable blanket replaced the need for loose blankets in many babies' sleep environments. 

What is a sleep sack?

400

This food should be avoided for infants below 12 months due to risk of infant botulism.

What is honey?

400

This developmental milestone is when a baby begins to understand that an object still exists even when it is hidden from view.

What is object permanence?
400

According to an old wives’ tale, craving pickles during pregnancy supposedly means you’re having this gender

What is 'a boy?' 

400

In the 1970s, this common baby-feeding practice was becoming more popular as more families moved away from making homemade baby food.

What is commercially prepared baby food? 

500

This device uses a small rubber bulb to suction mucus from a baby's nose. 

What is a bulb syringe?

500

This common fungal yeast infection causes creamy white patches in the mouth and on the tongue that don't easily wipe away. 

What is oral thrush, (or oral candidasis?) 

500

Babies are born with several involuntary reflexes, including the “starfish” reflex, which causes them to suddenly throw out their arms and legs in response to a loud noise.

What is the moro reflex?

500


According to an old wives’ tale, stepping over a broom while pregnant supposedly causes this to happen to the baby.




What is a birthmark?

500

What major change in car-seat safety became increasingly emphasized in the 1990s to protect babies?

What is keeping infants rear-facing?