Baby Trivia - Did You Know?
A newborn's natural reflexes include: grasping a finger tightly if placed in their hand, spreading toes when soles of feet are stroked and swimming when placed in water.
The
heaviest baby at birth on record weighed 24 pounds; the lightest weighed
10 ounces.
Infants show a preference for their mother's face when they are two-weeks old.
The oldest mother on record was 63 years old.
At birth, a baby's head is one-quarter the size of the body.
Hearing is the first sense to be fully developed in a newborn. Mothers have a heightened sense of taste while pregnant.
The water (amniotic fluid) surrounding a baby in the womb is mostly made up of baby urine.
Most babies begin smiling in a social way at 4 to 8 weeks old.
At approximately 11 months of age, children begin to identify word sounds with specific objects. However, children differentiate between their mother's language and a foreign language at birth.
In the first two weeks after being born, 90% of a baby's nerve cells in the brain form their permanent connections. A baby's brain grows from 25% of its adult size at birth to 75% by the age of 2.
A baby jellyfish is called a ephyna. A baby echidna is called a puggle. A baby llama is called a cria. A baby eel is called an elver.
