Top 10 Interesting Baby Facts

Having a baby is a whole new world. As much as you might have prepared for this tiny human’s arrival, studied, and received advice and endless tips, there are still some baby facts that you might have never known or even thought about knowing!

Take a peek at these 10 interesting and surprising facts about babies and impress those other new parents with your new baby knowledge:

1. Every second, somewhere in the world, 4.45 babies are born and 1.8 people die.

2. A newborn baby has around 300 bones. Many of these fuse together to leave an adult’s 206.

3. Aristotle believed that the womb is divided into two halves, one for boy babies, the other for girls.

4. He said that a woman wishing to conceive a son should lie on her right side, or on her left for a girl.

5. Research in Germany in 2001 involving T-shirt sniffing showed that men are better than women at detecting the smell of newborn babies.

6. The first baby born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma, was born in 1978. Superstitious, pregnant women used to avoid eating strawberries, for fear their babies would have strawberry

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7. One in 2,000 babies is born with teeth: Richard III, Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis XIV and Julius Caesar shared that distinction.

8. A baby platypus or echidna is a puggle, a baby alpaca is a cria, a baby hawk is an eyas, a baby jellyfish is an ephyna and a baby hare is a leveret.

9. Superstitious, pregnant women used to avoid eating strawberries, for fear their babies would have strawberry birthmarks.

10. The word ‘infant’ comes from the Latin ‘infans’ which means ‘unable to speak’.