Pregnancy and BabiesHuman mothers are pregnant for about 9 months, but female hedgehogs are only pregnant for about one month. When they have their babies, hedgehogs usually have 4 or 5 babies at once. The baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.For three or four weeks after they're born, the hoglets drink only their mother's milk, just like human babies can. They have to stay in the nest during this time because their spines haven't finished growing yet, so they have nothing to protect them from danger.Once their spines are done growing, hoglets travel around with their mother for a few weeks. This is like school for the hoglets, but instead of learning to read and write, they're learning to find their own food. During this time, they keep drinking milk, but they also eat some solid food. Hedgehogs like to eat beetles, earthworms, and other insects. If they live around people, they'll also get into any food that people throw away.After two months at the latest, hoglets completely stop nursing and eat solid food like adults. They leave their mothers and go off to live on their own.