Across
- 3. On average, moms take 2 minutes 5 seconds to change a ..... Fathers take an average of 1 minute 36 seconds
- 4. In India, people celebrate Durga-puja, a festival that pays homage to the mother goddess, .....
- 6. The mother who gives birth to the largest baby on Earth is a mother ...... After enduring 22 months of pregnancy, she gives birth to a blind, 200-pound calf
- 10. The first episode of the famous tv-show How I Met Your ..... came out in 2005
- 13. Mother's Day is one of the busiest days of the year for ..........
- 15. Social activist Julia Ward Howe first brought the idea of Mother's Day to the United States after the .... War, envisioning it as a day in which mothers would protest against war
- 17. The fetal heart races faster when hearing its mother's ...... versus a stranger's voice
- 18. Since Mother's Day always falls on a Sunday in America, attending ...... services ranks as a popular activity among families there
- 19. Mother's Day is the ...... highest selling holiday for flowers and plants
- 20. ...... moms carry the babies of another couple
Down
- 1. The sound of a mom's voice lowers a child's ....., the stress hormone
- 2. The African Black ...... typically will lay two eggs. After they hatch, the mother will just feed one of the chicks. The other chick is usually pecked to death by the other chick while the mother looks on
- 5. During pregnancy, moms and children exchange cells through their connection with the .....
- 7. For ......babies, skin-to-skin contact with a mother improves health
- 8. Spain and Portugal celebrate Mother's Day on the 8th of ....., honouring both the Virgin Mary and their own moms on the same day
- 9. The mom with the most kids is Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev of ..... She gave birth to 69 children between 1725 and 1765
- 11. According to Pew Research Center data from 2017, about one in ..... mothers in the U.S. are raising kids without a spouse or partner.
- 12. Scientists suspect that a tweak to human moms’ breast tissue helped some populations survive the last .... (two words)
- 14. There are about .... billion moms in the world
- 16. Many mammal mamas carry kids on the ....
- 18. A study of nearly 1.5 million Holstein .... moms showed they churn out more milk for daughters, to the tune of hundreds of extra gallons per year per animal.
- 21. Polar bear moms put on around 400 pounds during their pregnancy. If the mother doesn’t double her weight, her body will simply ..... the fetus