1. A baby cannot taste
salt until it is 4 months
old. The delay may be
related to the
development of
kidneys, which start to process sodium at about that age. l 2. In medieval Europe,
leeches were
commonly used to
treat babies’ illnesses.
For example, leeches
were placed on a baby’s windpipe for
croup. Additionally,
teething babies were
commonly purged or bled.l 3. In China, a baby is born
with a birth defect
every 30 minutes. Birth
defects in that country
have increased nearly 40% since 2001.h 4. The protein that keeps
a baby’s skull from
fusing is called “noggin.”k 5. A baby’s eyes are 75%
of their adult size, but
its vision is around
20/400. By six months,
a baby’s vision should reach 20/20.j baby right Newborns are more likely to
turn their heads to the right
than to the left 6. Newborns are more
likely to turn their
head to the right than to the left. j 7. The inner ear is the
only sense organ to
develop fully before
birth. It reaches its
adult size by the middle of pregnancy. e 8. Within a few days of
birth, a baby can
distinguish between
the touch of bristles
that are of different diameters.e 9. A baby has around
10,000 taste buds, far
more than adults. They
are not just on the
tongue but also on the
sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Eventually
these extra taste buds disappear.e 10. Adults have 206 bones.
When babies are born,
they have 300. Their
bones fuse as they
grow, resulting in
fewer bones as adults.k 11. The intestines of a
newborn are about 11
feet long. The length
will double by the time
the baby grows to adulthood.k 12. A newborn urinates
about every 20
minutes and then
roughly every hour at 6 months.l dad baby smiling Human babies are the only
primates who smile at their
parents 13. Human babies are the
only primates who smile at their parents. l 14. If a person who was
born 8 lbs. and 20 in. at
birth continued
growing at the same
rate as he does the first
year, by the time he reached 20, he’d be 25
ft. tall and weigh nearly 315 lbs. l 15. A baby is born in the
world every three seconds.e 16. Famous premature
babies include Albert
Einstein, Charles
Darwin, Isaac Newton,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Mark Twain, Pablo
Picasso, Auguste
Renoir, Stevie Wonder,
Johann Goethe, and Sir Winston Churchill.d 17. The largest number of
babies born to a
woman is 69. From
1725-1765, a Russian
peasant woman gave
birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of
triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.f 18. In 1978, the first baby
was born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma.f 19. Each year, over four
million babies are born in the U.S.k 20. Approximately 80% of
infants are born with
some form of
birthmark, usually
“stork bites” and “port wine stains.” k 21. Approximately two or
three of every 1,000
children in the United
States are born deaf or
hard-of-hearing. More
lose their hearing later in childhood.i 22. Babies can suffer
serious health effects if
their mothers have an
STD, including death,
low birth weight,
conjunctivitis (an eye infection), pneumonia,
neonatal sepsis
(infection in the baby’s
blood stream),
neurologic damage,
blindness, deafness, acute hepatitis,
meningitis, chronic
liver disease, and
cirrhosis. Many of these
problems can be
prevented if the mother receives
prenatal care that
includes screening for STDs.m baby saying no Shaking one's head to indicate
"no" may have derived from
full babies 23. Some scientists suggest
that shaking the head
to mean “no” derives
from newborns
turning their head
away from food when they are full. k 24. A baby can recognize
the smell and voice of
its mother at birth. It
takes a few weeks
before a baby can see
the difference between its mother and other adults.k 25. A baby’s first social
smile appears between
four and six weeks after birth. l 26. The heaviest baby on
record to survive was
a 22 lb. 8 oz. Italian
baby born in 1955. In
1879, a woman in
Canada gave birth to a 23 lb. 1.92 oz. baby that
died 11 hours after birth.k 27. In the United States,
more babies are born
on Wednesday than on
other days of the
week. Sunday is the slowest day. j 28. In the United States,
more babies are born in
late summer and early
fall than in other times
of the year. February
tends to be the month when the least babies are born.j 29. Utah has the highest
birthrate in the U.S., at
about 21 babies per
1,000 people. Vermont
has the lowest birth
rate, with slightly more than 10 babies born per 1,000 people.c 30. In 1970, the average
age for a first-time
mom in the U.S. was
21. In 2008, it was 25.1.c 31. At birth, babies have
no kneecaps. Kneecaps
do not develop
completely until after six months. k baby expenses New parents in the U.S. will
spend approximately $7,000
the first year on baby items 32. It is estimated that
new parents in the U.S.
will spend on average
$7,000 the first year on
a new baby’s diapers,
formula, and day care. This does not include medical costs.f 33. Babies born in May
usually weigh on
average 200 grams
more than babies born in other months.a 34. The number of babies
born to single women
is at record levels. In
2010, there were 9.8
million single moms
living with children under 18 in the U.S., up
from 3.4 million in 1970.c 35. There were about 1,049
male babies born for
every 1,000 female
babies in 2006 in the
United States. This ratio
has been consistent for the past 60 years. k 36. In 2006, there were
32.1 pairs of twins
born for every 1,000
births in the United
States. This rate has
remained roughly the same, though between
1980 and 2004, the rate rose 70%.a 37. Over half a million
babies (1 in are born
prematurely in the
United States each
year. Low birth
weight rate has increased 9% since 2000
and 24% since the mid 1980s.a 38. Research has shown
that cesarean babies
are more likely to have
breathing difficulties,
as it is thought they
may miss out on important hormonal
and physiological
changes that occur during labor.j chubby baby From conception to birth, a
baby's weight will increase
3,000 million times 39. During the nine months
between conception
and birth, a baby’s
weight increases by
3,000 million times.
Between birth and the end of its second year,
an infant will have quadrupled in size.a 40. In four or five out of
every 100 newborn
babies, there is
discharge of milk from
the nipples. This is due
to unusually high levels of the mother’s
hormones that leak
across the placenta
during pregnancy.
Premature babies
never have this discharge, only those who are full term. m.randomhistory.com/baby-facts.html

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This is really informative, but i dnt agree with d number 1.


However, Numbers 23,24, 25,39 and 40 are very real but Number 17 is very funny and surprising.