Baby Items
Hangs over crib while stimulating and soothing baby
What is a mobile?
This soft spot on a baby’s head eventually closes as the skull bones fuse.
What is the fontanelle?
This is the average number of weeks in a full-term pregnancy.
What is 40 weeks?
In this Nordic country, it’s common for babies to nap outside, even in winter.
What is Finland?
This is purpose of wearing a hat as soon as the baby is swaddled (according to parents in Russia).
What is to prevent ears from sticking out?
A type of car seat that can switch from rear facing to front facing
What is a convertible car seat?
A baby has more of these in their body than an adult.
What are bones?
This common pregnancy symptom is caused by rising levels of hCG.
What is morning sickness?
In Japan, babies are named in a ritual called Oshichiya, which takes place this many days after birth.
What is 7 days?
The age old question of "did they choose a name yet"?
Yes, but it's secret?
Helps baby's sore gums while teething.
What is a teething ring?
Babies are born without this structural joint cap, making crawling and diaper changes cuter but wobblier.
What are kneecaps (patellae)?
During pregnancy, this organ grows larger than any other and returns to its original size after birth.
What is the uterus?
In this country, parents plant a tree when a child is born, especially a daughter.
What is Israel (or sometimes India)?
This beautiful region full of mountains is where mom came from.
What is Ossetia?
The most accurate tool to take a newborn's temperature.
What is a rectal thermometer
Unlike adults, babies mostly breathe using this part of their face.
What is the nose? (They are obligate nose breathers for the first few months.)
This line appears vertically on the pregnant belly and gets darker as pregnancy progresses.
What is the linea nigra?
In this country, it’s considered good luck to spit (symbolically!) on a baby to protect them from the evil eye.
What is Greece?
These are 3 countries that dad split his childhood between before landing here.
What are Russia, Israel, and Uzbekistan?
A tall piece of furniture to let the baby reach the table.
What is a high chair?
This part of a baby’s digestive system is immature and contributes to spit-up, colic, and gas.
What is the lower esophageal sphincter (or gastrointestinal system)?
You might waddle like a penguin in your third trimester because of this hormone that loosens joints.
What is relaxin?
In some regions of this country, babies traditionally have their heads shaved soon after birth for spiritual reasons.
What is India?
What is Rita's icecream and russian salted fish?