Some Cute Baby Facts for you to enjoy:

-A baby is born in the world every three seconds.

-A short list of famous people who were born prematurely; Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mark Twain, Sir Winston Churchill.

-The largest number of babies born to a single 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.  Oucha!

-Babies are born mostly on Wednesdays.  Though for nearly twenty years babies seemed to prefer being born on a Tuesday.  I’d sure like to know what that’s about.

-Babies aren’t at all colorblind, so no more of those garish black and white mobiles, please.  They like to see primary colors, red yellow and blue!

-A baby cannot taste salt until it’s reached four months of age, about the time when their lil’ kidneys are far enough along to deal with sodium.

-During medieval Europe, leeches were commonly used to treat babies who were ‘sick.’  Standard treatments included placing a leech on a baby’s windpipe, to treat croup. Bloodletting was also a commonly used to treat teething ailments.  I can’t imagine.

-The protein that keeps a baby’s skull from fusing together is called “noggin.”  Ha!  Just like the hormone that makes my pelvic girdle hurt is called ‘Relaxin.’

-For some strange reason newborns are more likely to turn their head to the right than to the left.  Somebody tell me why…

-A baby has about 10,000 taste buds in its little mouth.  They grow on the sides, back and roof. Though they do eventually disappear.  Girls have more taste buds than boys have,  not surprising.

-I (and, yes, you too) have 206 bones in my body. When my baby is born, he/she will have 300. Their bones fuse as they grow!

-Babies don’t have kneecaps when they’re born. Kneecaps do not develop until after babies are six months.

-The grasp of a newborn baby is so powerful that he/she can support the weight of its body in midair.  I don’t recommend testing this one…

-Newborns like looking at a drawing of a face rather than a random pattern (like on a crib mobile) and they prefer smiling faces to cranky ones but then again who wouldn’t?

-Babies cry for about two hours a day.  Most babies get in their quality crying time when they’re around six weeks old.