This little interactive animation from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago amazed me, it shows where the baby is throughout pregnancy. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Make Room for Baby Interactive"
This creative list of "Top 20 List Of Things I Wish I Had Known About Newborns Before Having One" had me in stitches, specially:
1.) A “newborn” and a “baby” are two completely separate creatures. All new parents who tell you how awesome parenthood is, this is because they now have a baby, and have forgotten what it was like having a newborn. The baby is interactive, has thoughts and emotions, plays with you, makes cute noises. A newborn does 4 things only: cries, eats, sleeps and poops. Your role right now as parents of a newborn is to give love to someone who doesn’t know you exist (remember that girl/guy from high school? Just like that) Your role is to help your newborn to survive the next 3 months to the baby stage, where you’ll then start to have fun.
5.) Babies’ respiratory systems are not very well developed when they’re born, so it’s quite normal to have them snort, squeak, squeal, croak, make all sorts of pig noises, sound like they’re coughing up a lung, etc. Basically, every moment they’re alive, they sound like they’re taking their dying breath, so you stop worrying about it pretty fast. This gradually improves over the first month.
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18.) Newborns do not understand the irony of you crying at them.
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