Growing up is something that, if we’re being honest, starts at conception. One second they are just a few cells and the next they’ve got the beginnings of brains and lungs and other important organs. It takes only nine months to go from a couple of cells to a being fully capable of living independently. It seems like not very much time passes at all between birth and the time when your baby has very definite likes and dislikes. 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.
Babies have three hundred bones in their bodies when they are born. After a person finishes growing up, he or she only has two hundred and six bones. Contrary to how this sounds, you never actually lose bones-some of the individual bones that you are born with simply fuse together to form single bones. Many believe that this is one of the main reasons that a baby is so much more flexible physically as an adult-because the bones are able to move independently of one another in infancy. There is some logic to this-after all, when was the last time you could put your feet behind your head?
Most people already accept that babies are able to hear sounds even before they are born. Many sounds cause babies to have strong reactions-reactions that have been recorded before the baby is born. Did you know that a fetus’s ears are just as sensitive to varying decibel levels as those of an infant? The ears of an unborn infant are extremely sensitive. Doctors recommend that, while women are pregnant, that they keep their music, televisions, etc, below the level of a modern vacuum cleaner. If you must listen to loud music, wear headphones as this will cut down on the noise inflicted on your baby considerably-some doctors even think that vacuum cleaners are too loud so keep the noise to a dull roar as much as you can.
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? When a person gets stressed he or she secretes a hormone that is only found in tears. This hormone secretion is the main reason that stressed out people cry: the body ridding itself of that hormone helps calm everything down. Your baby won’t create this hormone until after you have given birth to him. The stress hormone does not usually start to show up until the baby has been out of the womb for at least a few weeks. Your baby might take a couple of months to begin crying real tears.
Every day new developments are made in childhood development. What is certain today could be an old wives tale tomorrow! Is the confusion really unfounded, given how quickly we learn new things about babies? Staying current with the trends can be easy if you don’t mind doing a little bit of homework. Babies are more than humans in the larvae stage. Babies are creatures with a decidedly intact set of needs. Learning how to communicate with them is very important. You should do everything you can to learn how your baby will develop. Your parenting skills will be better if you understand what is going on.
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