Breast milk is a panacea or a “cure all” for babies, it serves many functions and just one of them is sustenance. Another function of breast milk is to help regulate mood, sleep and anxiety. This is achieved by …
A Newborn’s Brain Accounts for over 10% of Its Entire Weight, in Adults It’s Only 2%!
Babies have big heads… Why? We covered the disparity in a baby’s body proportions and their weighty heads way back in week 8 when we discovered that their heads accounted for roughly a quarter of their body weight. This …
2016’s Heaviest Baby Weighed a Whopping 15 lbs or 6.8 Kg!
2016’s Top 3 Heaviest Babies! In first spot we saw the heaviest baby girl ever recorded. She was born to a 19-year-old woman named Nandini in India, on the 23rd May and weighed a whopping 15 lbs or 6.8 …
Iceland’s First Baby of 1980 Gave Birth to the First Baby of 2017!
On the 1st of January, at 3 minutes past midnight, Katrín Guðjónsdóttir gave birth to Iceland’s first baby of 2017. He was born at Selfoss Hospital, Southwest Iceland on his mother’s birthday. The thing that makes his birth even …
Twins Can Be Born in Different Years, One Set Was Born 87 Days Apart!
Twins are often born minutes or even hours apart and if that time difference spans either side of the clock striking midnight on New Years Eve, then they could be born in different years. Articles often spring up in …
Christmas Day Has the Fewest Births but the Most Conceptions!
Christmas Day sees the fewest births in the UK according to the Office for National Statistics, closely followed by Boxing Day and then a jump to New Year’s Day. This has been based upon average daily births from 1995 …