It’s a fair assumption that you already know some things about babies. Most people know that it takes babies a while to get to know someone. Most people already know that babies are able to identify their mothers right after they have been born. You’ve probably learned that babies develop at their own rate. Baby’s do not follow a pre-set schedule for milestones. The fact is that most people do not quite grasp just how intricate a baby’s development really is. Human development is fascinating but infancy is mesmerizing. So many things happen between conception and even early childhood. A baby’s body might not look that complicated but it is an intrinsically complicated network of biology whose only goal is to keep developing!
Often, by the time a woman knows she is pregnant her fetus already has a beating heart. It only takes about three weeks for a baby’s heart to form and start working. Most women take until this time to realize that they missed a period and are growing a baby. Are you impressed that it only takes biology twenty one days to build a beating heart from something that starts out as a single celled organism? Think about everything that your heart does and how strong it needs to be and then marvel at how quickly you made its foundation while you were in the womb.
Did you know that some babies are born with teeth? Other babies don’t start getting their teeth in until well after their first birthdays.
Your baby, in spite of not being able to talk right away, will amaze you with the range of sounds that he or she can make almost as soon as he or she is born. This is due to the fact that a baby’s larynx won’t be finished developing until long after the baby has been born. Adult voice boxes have already begun to stiffen up, which is why babies are better at creating new sounds. Babies quickly start to assign the sounds they make to the things that they want or need. This is the way babies teach their parents how to get them what they want-as long as the parents are paying attention they can usually figure it out within a moment or two. Another interesting fact is that most babies’ first words are simple words that involve the consonants and vowels that are made with the front of the mouth. It is because of this that a baby’s first word is usually “dada” and not “mama”: dada is easier to imitate and is almost always a surprise to both the parent and the baby!
Most people believe that babies do not know how to smile before they are born. If a baby does smile before a certain point, most people think it is gas. For a long time it was common thought that smiling was a learned behavior-something that the baby learned from his or her parents over the first few weeks of life. 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. Ultrasounds have gotten a lot better in recent years and prove that babies can smile before they are born. Many families have been given ultrasound pictures of their smiling children weeks before they are due to be born. Some scientists now believe that the reason babies take so long to “learn” to smile is because the birthing process is so traumatic for them. Babies are really fun to learn about. Nobody really knows exactly how they learn or how quickly they learn it. There is nothing like watching a baby grow from an infant into an adult-it is a fascinating and mind boggling process!
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