Newborn baby has 300 bones but a grown-up has only 206 bones. What do you think happens to the rest of the bones? Find out the names of these missing bones.
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An adult has 206 bones, but a newborn baby has nearly 300 bones in her body. This is because babies have more flexible cartilage (a firm tissue softer than bone) in the body. As the child grows, some of the cartilage hardens and turns to bone, and some bones fuse together.
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Changing bone as babies grow As your baby grows into childhood, much of that cartilage will be replaced by actual bone. But something else happens, which explains why 300 bones at birth become 206 bones by adulthood. Many of your baby's bones will fuse together, which means the actual number of bones will decrease.
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