Everything created by God contains many interesting and surprising facts, so how can it be that there are no interesting facts about babies?
There are many things related to babies that you may not know before and knowing these things you will be surprised and will love your little ones. So let's know about children and be surprised.
1• NEWBORN BABIES DO NOT CRY
Yes, of course !!! It seems that babies cry all the time, but this is not true. They utter loud cries but no tears come. Their tear ducts or glands are fully developed but only enough water comes out of them to keep their eyes moist. At the age of one to three months, babies start to have visible tears.
2•BABIES ARE BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO CRAWL
As soon as the baby is born, it is placed on the mother's chest. So he moves towards the mother's breast in a magical way. With the force of his legs, the baby moves towards the mother's breast to take his first feed. This process can be done by a child of one hour. This discovery was made by a Swedish scientist and he named this discovery breast crawl.
3•NUMBERS OF BONES
So this is a very strange thing but it is absolutely true. That a tall man has 206 bones. While a newborn baby has three hundred bones. So where do these remaining 94 bones disappear??? Don't worry, this is also a natural process. As the child gets older. Its small bones join together to form a large bone. particularly in the spine and skull.
4•TASTING POWER
Young children are often hungry and want to eat or eat almost anything. The reason for this is that children's ability to taste is much higher than that of adults. Adults have about 10,000 taste buds on their tongues, while children have three times as many taste buds as adults, about 30,000. Which are also in the back and upper part of their mouth. So they want to taste everything in sight.
5•CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE KNEECAPS
Despite having 100 more bones than adults, children do not have kneecaps. Their knee bones are not stiff. A baby's knee is made entirely of soft cartilage. That same resilient flexible connective tissues found in your nose, ear and end of your bones. It is strong enough to give full support to the baby's body but at the same time flexible enough to expand. As the baby grows, it also changes its shape and structure.
6•COLOUR BLINDNESS
When a child opens his eyes for the first time, he can only see things in grey shades and black and white. The reason for this is that the retina of the eye and the nerve cells of the brain that show us the colors and objects are not fully formed. Newborns can see objects that are 8 to 15 inches away from them. The first color infants recognize is red. The last colors? Blue and purple. It is said that the baby starts to see all the colors at about five months of age.
7•ABILITY TO BREATHE AND SWALLOW SIMULTANEOUSLY
You must have noticed that if we ever accidentally swallow something and inhale at the same time, we face difficulty in breathing and our throat starts to choke. But this is not the case with children. Nature has blessed him with an amazing ability. Babies have the ability to swallow while breathing simultaneously. But how the larynx of small children i.e. voice box are hyoid bones are positioned high up in its nasal cavity much like a snorkel. This enables the baby to breathe and swallow food at the same time. But this ability ends automatically by the age of 7 months.
8•BABIES DO NOT TASTE SALT
For adults, there are five flavor levels: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (savory flavor of meat, milk, and mushrooms).As mentioned earlier, the taste buds of babies are three times more than that of adults. But babies can mostly taste sweet and bitter. They do not taste salt until they are four months old.
9•THEY CAN SWIM
Yes !!! Babies can swim from birth. Humans are born with an instinctive diving reflex. They are called laryngeal reflexes or mammalian reflexes. These reflexes are automatically activated as soon as the child is submerged in water.
Babies instinctively hold their breath instantly closing their nasal and sinus cavities the second their face comes into contact with water. However this underwater ability quickly disappears as the newborn approaches 6 months old.
10•FIRST POOP DOESN'T STINK
The very first stool your baby passes doesn’t smell bad. That’s because the black, tarry-looking stuff, called meconium, is sterile. Until the intestines are colonized with bacteria, there’s nothing to make poop stinky. Don’t go bragging about your baby’s odorless poop, however; bacterial colonization begins with the first feeding. Some babies will actually pass meconium while still in the uterus, usually as a result of physiologic stress like an infection or a difficult delivery.
11•VOICE RECOGNITION
A 2013 university of Helsinki study found that newborns recognize sounds that they heard in the womb.
That's why the crying child becomes silent in the mother's voice. Because the most voice that a baby hears before birth is the voice of its mother. He recognizes that voice very well. Research has proven that the songs or lullabies you hum before your baby is born. Even after the birth of the child, it is helpful in making the crying baby quiet and sleep.
12• BABIES GROW AT AN INSANELY SPEEDY RATE
Babies double their birth weight by five months and triple it by the first year (approximately).
They also grow about 1 to 1.5 cm each month. If they kept this rapid growth up, by adulthood, babies would measure in at 51 meters tall!
13• THEY ARE ALWAYS SLEEPY
Babies will sleep, on average, 5400 hours in the first year. Considering there are only 8760 hours in a year, this seems like A LOT! But remember, babies sleep only a few hours at a time, especially during the first three months. And this is only an estimate. Every baby is different and many don’t get the memo that they need to sleep this much (and for 8 hours at a time).
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