Thursday, October 27, 2011

Facts About Babies Most People Don't Know

By Logan Baxter


Sure you know that most of a baby's day involves sleeping eating and bowel relief. Have you learned why babies' bodies move the way they move? Do you understand how babies develop? So many people do not understand the little things about why a baby grows the way it does. Other people are fascinated by the way a baby grows and develops as it is conceived, grows within the mother, is born and then grows up.

Babies are full of surprises! Only half of the things you have learned about babies is correct. This article will teach you a few things about babies that you probably do not already know.

Light is an early sensitivity for babies-it starts happening in utero. Millions of fibers and nerve endings connect together to create your eyes. The coordination needed for the eyes to function properly is extraordinary. A baby has eyes that are useful within a few months of being conceived. By about six months into your pregnancy your baby will be sensitive to light. Another interesting fact about babies: most Caucasian babies will not show their "true" eye color until a few months after they are born. If you are Caucasian your baby's eyes will probably be blue and then change later. Don't get too set on the color blue you see in a newborn's eyes. They might not stay that way!

Before they are born most infants are able to understand and recognize different songs and music types. Different songs can be recognized by the time an infant is thirty four weeks along. This means that the baby spends more than a month in the womb being able to identify different types of music! Sometimes the babies will even "dance" to different beats. Your baby has definite tastes and preferences even before he is born! Isn't that great?

Common knowledge states that babies don't smile until long after they are born. If a baby does smile before a certain point, most people think it is gas. For more than a century people believed that smiling was an activity taught to babies by their parents. Disapproval and unhappiness were thought to be easier for a baby to express than happiness. These theories have been mostly disproved. As ultrasound technology progresses, more people are able to see their babies smiling in the womb. Now families are given ultrasound pictures of their smiling children many weeks before the children due date. 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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