Did You Know These Facts About Babies? You Should
Children grow up really fast. One second they are just a few cells and the next they’ve got the beginnings of brains and lungs and other important organs. There are only forty weeks from conception to independent life. Not too long after that they begin forming personalities and even making their own decisions. You probably already know a few facts about babies, like that they cannot change their own diapers and that they don’t yet know how to speak and that it takes them a while to figure out how to move on their own. Here are some interesting tidbits and trivia about infants that you might have fun learning.
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When a baby is born his or her skull plates are not fused. This is why it is so important for adults to be careful when handling a newborn’s head. Serious damage could be done to your child’s development if you are not careful when handling his or her head-be careful of that soft spot! You will be glad to know that the soft spot stops being so sensitive and soft within a few months. The front of the skull is another story-those plates can take a year and a half to calcify and harden, so don’t stop being careful!
Even while they are in utero, babies can identify music. As early as six weeks before birth, infants can recognize songs. A baby can spend more than a month in utero listening to and appreciating different songs. Some babies even pick up on the beat of a song and move around to it! This means that your child is already showing his or her music preferences-while in the womb! Aren’t you excited about that?
Many babies can act fussy when they are exposed to different chemicals in their clothing, bedding and toys. To avoid this choose organic baby clothes and organic baby bedding and toys. One good site is Organic Baby.
You already know that babies cry when they need something but did you know that those cries do not involve tears until two or three weeks after the baby’s birth? Tears contain stress induced hormones. To calm itself down, the body tries to get rid of the stress induced hormones and forces the tears out of the tear ducts (aka crying). This hormone does not get created until after a baby has been born. Sometimes real tears take a few weeks to show up because it takes the baby a while to begin producing the stress hormone. Your baby might take a couple of months to begin crying real tears.
There are plenty of developmental facts about babies that few people know. Ironically, the more information an adult has on a subject the more patience he or she usually has for it when faced with it.
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