Sunday, May 22, 2011

Baby Knowledge You Might Not Yet Have

By Ann Krall


You probably aren't aware of just how quickly babies can change and grow. In almost no time at all a baby goes from a ball of rapidly dividing cells to the beginnings of a human being with rudimentary lungs, a brain and a pumping heart. It takes only nine months to go from a couple of cells to a being fully capable of living independently. Personalities and decisions begin being made almost immediately after birth. Things like moving on their own, needing help with diaper changes and even how they learn to speak are pretty commonly understood. Read on to learn something new about babies and young kids.

Usually, by the time a woman realizes that she has missed her period; her fetus's heart is already working. It only takes about three weeks for a baby's heart to form and start working. Many women do not learn that they are pregnant until right around this time. If there was ever a marvel about babies it would be that it only takes three weeks for biology to take a couple of individual cells, join them together and form rudimentary organs that start to fully function. Doesn't it blow your mind that the foundation of the heart that you have now only took a few weeks to make?

Did you know that not all babies are born toothless? Still other babies are born with no hope of having their teeth come in until they hit their first birthdays.

Teething is one of the things new parents dread the most. It is important, though to not worry too much if your baby seems to start teething early or late. Even if you have other children who started teething at an average age, that does not mean that this baby is not going to follow his own schedule.

Most people believe that babies do not know how to smile before they are born. Gas is usually given credit for the first signs of smiling in a baby's life. Even experts thought that it was the parents that taught a baby to smile when it was happy, that the baby did not know how to express happiness right away. It was widely believed that it was easier for a baby to learn how to express unhappiness than it was to learn how to express happiness. Now scientists have learned differently. Smiling has been picked up by newer ultrasound machines, proving the old theories are wrong. Lots of mothers and fathers have been given photographic evidence of their baby smiling in the womb. Common belief now is that the birthing process is so traumatic for infants that they do not smile until they have gotten over the shocking change in environments.




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