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the only era where being bald, toothless, and incontinent is universally adored
means The period of a person's life when they are a baby, roughly from birth through the first year or two.
from A transparent compound: "baby" plus the old suffix "-hood," which comes from Old English "-hād," meaning a state, condition, or rank — the same "-hood" that gives us childhood, neighborhood, and falsehood. As for "baby," it's a medieval English word, likely an imitation of the babbling sounds infants make ("ba-ba"), a cousin of "babble." So babyhood is, quite literally, the condition of being a babbler.
- bone count
- babies have about 300 bones, adults 206
- no kneecaps
- newborn kneecaps are cartilage, harden over years
- crying tearless
- newborns can't make tears for weeks
- taste buds
- infants have more taste buds than adults
- memory gap
- few remember anything before age three or four
benjamin franklin's babyhood — born in boston, 1706, youngest of 17 children in colonial america
mozart's babyhood — born salzburg 1756, performing for european courts by age 5