Advanced English Vocabulary Lesson | BABY WORDS

Hey, everyone. How's it going?

I'm Andrea, your RealLife English Fluency Coach.

And I think most of you know by now that I am in fact pregnant,

I'm quite heavily pregnant right now, so not long to go.

So I thought it would be a good idea to share some baby vocabulary with you

today and also show you some of the items that you would need as a new parent.

This vocabulary is important to learn because you probably hear it in TV series,

movies, podcasts you listen to, so it's useful to know what these items are,

especially as well if you are planning on maybe having a baby soon.

I'll also explain the difference in vocabulary between UK and US

because we tend to have a lot of words related to babies that are very different

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Okay, so the first item

that we're going to look at is probably the most expensive.

It's the biggest investment and can yeah,

it can really cost you an arm and a leg, we would say,

which means that it's very expensive. And that is the pram.

So in the UK, this item is a pram

is too big for me to show you here.

And so we've actually packed it away because it takes up quite a lot of space.

But in the US, they call this a stroller.

Now in the UK, we do have a few more words for this.

You might also hear pushchair, which is more for

when the baby is sort of five or six months old

and they go for the bassinet, the one where they're lying down flat

to the one that's like a chair that they can sit on.

So first it's a pram, then it's a pushchair.

Some people also call it a buggy.

So just so that, you know, however, in the US, it's a stroller.

Another way of moving your baby around is with a baby carrier.

Now there are some called slings that look like this, and they're a bit more fiddly

I would say. Maybe they're a bit harder to put on.

Haven't actually tried.

We actually bought a carrier instead,

which just seems a bit easier for us both to wear.

And that way, if we go out for short trips or walks,

we can carry the baby on us rather than having a pram to push.

So the place where the

baby sleeps in the UK, we call this a cot.

And in the US it's called a crib.

So this is the same thing.

Just two different names.

And what some people like to do for the first six months

or so is have a co-sleeping crib

where you can actually attach it to the side of your bed.

It's like an extension of your bed. That way you're closer to your baby.

And then after that, they can sleep in the cot

or the crib that stands alone, even in their own room as well.

Then you can also attach what we call a mobile onto the crib,

which is one of those items that turns sometimes they play music,

sometimes they have lights,

and it just helps to relax the baby and maybe put them to sleep. In the US

they do call this the same name, but the pronunciation is different,

so you'd probably hear them call it a mobile.

Now I mentioned the co-sleeping cot or the co-sleeping crib. In the US

some people also call this

a bassinet, whereas in the UK, we don't really use this word.

However, we do also sometimes

use a Moses basket, which is called that because of the way that it is made.

And it's basically because it's a woven basket.

But lots of people have told me it's not really worth buying

because the baby grows out of it after a couple of months.

So we haven't opted for this

Now, lots of people might have a changing table in their nursery,

which is the name that we use for the baby's room.

But really, for the first six

months, the baby's going to be sleeping in the parent's room.

So lots of people tell me that a changing table

takes up a lot of space and really you are going to be changing

your baby in the living room, in your bedroom, like everywhere.

So we opted for a changing pad that we can move around the house,

but is still comfortable for us to be able to change her

and it actually just survive so I'm going to show you the one that we have.

So it's really nicely cushioned

and I haven't taken it out of the plastic cover just because

I don't want it to get too dusty.

And really, what we would put here is maybe a muslin

or cloth, which I'll show you and explain to you

what that is in a moment and be able to change the baby on this.

So what do you do on a changing pad?

You change the baby's nappy.

So I think you guys probably know what a nappy is,

but this is what we call it in the UK.

However, in the US, this is called a diaper.

So you've probably heard that word a lot in TV series and movies.

They call it a diaper. We call it a nappy.

Also, to clean the baby, you would use some baby wipes.

That's what we call them. Baby wipes.

Okay, so now I'm going to show you some clothes.

This in the UK, we would call a vest, so

you would definitely use it in the summer when it's really hot or in winter

if you want to layer the baby's clothing, if it's cold.

Now in the US, I believe they call this a onesie, whereas

we don't really use this term in the UK, so this one would just be a vest.

And then this is what we would call a bodysuit or a baby grow.

And I believe in the US.

They also call it a bodysuit because it covers the whole body.

All the arms, it even has these little foldable things

here to cover the baby's hands so that they do not scratch their face,

and it has their little booties over like little socks.

So instead of having to put socks on the baby, which

everyone tells me, just fall off and you end up losing them.

It's good to have a bodysuit that has the feet or the socks,

booties, whatever you want to call them included.

And so that's what that looks like.

And this one has a zip.

So it's easy, especially at night, if you're changing nappies,

whereas these sort of vests have what we call poppers

and they're called poppers because of the sound they make.

Not sure if you can hear that.

Yeah. So this one's a vest and this one is a bodysuit.

So I mentioned that with the bodysuit you can actually cover.

Some of them have an integrated piece of material where you can actually cover

the baby's hands so that they're not scratching their face.

But if you don't have that, you can have what we call mittens.

So mittens all kind of like gloves

that we wear in winter to cover our hands, but gloves.

You can actually fit your fingers through them,

whereas mittens are just one big covering.

So these are great for babies and for kids to stop them from scratching their face.

Now the next item.

I haven't bought any just yet, but I'm sure I will be investing in some.

It's what in the UK we call a dummy, which is this.

And this is when baby is

crying, when baby, you know, wants to go to sleep

or you just want to help them to relax, you would use a dummy.

Now in the US, they call this a pacifier, which sounds a lot more technical.

It comes from the word to pacify the verb to pacify,

which means to calm down in this way.

So it's called a pacifier, but I think they do shorten it as well

and call it Passy so that it sounds a bit cuter

and dummy actually as well is maybe a word you want to be a bit careful with

because in the UK, we would know that it's this baby item,

but it can also be a derogatory term.

If you call someone a dummy, you mean that they are stupid,

so definitely use this word with caution in the US.

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OK, so next, I'm going to show you this.

This is called a muslin, muslin, and it's called this

because of the type of material the cloth that it is.

They're usually made with 100% cotton

and organic cotton is great because it's very soft.

And these are really versatile, you can get them in different sizes.

This is quite a large one that you can use to swaddle the baby.

So basically to Swaddle is to wrap the baby in this muslin

wrapping in their arms as well

so that they feel very secure and safe as if they were back in the womb.

And it helps a lot of babies to sleep.

Lots of people use Muslins to wrap the baby into sleep.

You can also use it if you're nursing, which means

if you are breastfeeding the baby, or even if you're just feeding them

with a bottle, you can use it to wipe their mouths and clean them. To burp them

if you're holding them here

and after you fed them, you want them to burp to release their gas.

You can do that here and any vomit or spit up

that comes up to go onto the muslin rather than your clothes.

So as well as a muslin, we

also invested in a sleeping bag.

Now these have become really popular because sometimes

with a swaddle, if the baby is very active and you haven't tighted

and you have wrapped it tightly, they can escape and their arms can escape.

And then they start waking themselves up

by touching their face or scratching if their nails are long.

Whereas these kind of keep them in packs really tight and they come in different

thicknesses, whether it's for winter, summer or whichever season.

And they're easy to use, especially at night, because they come

with a zip that's unzips from the top,

but also one that unzips from the bottom.

So if you're changing at nighttime, I've been told it can be very useful.

So we've put one of these to start off with

and then eventually, it has poppers here again.

Eventually, you can also use it with the baby's arms out

so they don't have to be all snug wrapped in later on.

They can grow with it.

So it's called a sleeping bag or sleep sack, but

also a grow bag because the baby can grow with it.

And there's also one more way that you can keep your baby snug, whether

it's in the cot, whether it's in the pram, and that's with a blanket.

And this is a cellular blanket you can see here the holes.

The way that it's knitted makes it say cellular,

which means that it's safer for baby if they want to cover their face

because it's breathable, but it also keeps them really, really warm.

So the last thing I'm going to show you

is this rattle, so we call it a rattle because of the noise that it makes.

And these are great for getting babies attention.

It's also great for the development,

follow the different colors and the sounds and things like this,

they can also be used to help calm them down if they are crying

sometimes, they like that noise.

And also some of them are great for when the baby's teething, so that's

when they start to develop their teeth and it can be quite painful for babies.

So we use what we call teethers, and there is a variety you can get.

Some rattles can also be used as teethers.

And that's basically when the baby puts it in their mouths to help soothe

their gums as their teeth are coming through.

So those are all the items that I wanted to show you today.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

Learning more baby vocabulary and the differences between American

and English words that we use for babies.

You've also seen some items that new parents

would need as well, so hopefully that has been useful too.

So by the time you're watching this,

it could even be that I've already had my baby, so

you might be seeing me a little bit less on the channel, but I will be back soon.

And if you want to keep learning,

I recommend you watch this lesson next to learn more about the difference

between American and British pronunciation.

My father is in the car, my father is in the car.

She bought her daughter a bottle of water.

She bought her daughter a bottle of water, Tomato, tomato.