Minggu, 21 Agustus 2011

Things You Might Not Know About Babies

By Logan Baxter


Watching kids develop can fascinate you. Learning about the way a baby goes from his infancy to manhood will astound you. Growing up is a more complicated process than most people realize. Babies are adorable and very complicated beings. In order to develop normally, there are very specific needs that a baby's parents need to meet and take care of. There is nothing simple about infancy and early childhood. Good parents learn everything they can about how their children are developing, even in the early stages of infancy.

A baby's skull is not fused together when it is born. The lack of a solid skull is what makes it so scary for so many adults to hold babies right after they are born! This is why that space on the back of a newborn's head is called the soft spot and you need to handle it with care or you could do some serious damage to your baby. About three months after your baby is born its skull plates will have started to fuse together and you won't have to be quite so careful with the soft spot at the back of his or her head. It can take as long as a year and a half for the frontal plates of your baby's skull to harden, so don't assume that the worst is over when the soft spot calcifies together.

This is often the motivation behind a baby's toy preferences. It is kind of a cruel joke that the decorations most parents find hideous because of their garish color schemes are actually the decorations (and toys) that are best for their children's eyesight and brain development!

The vocal range of babies is very impressive; even if it does take them a while to use those vocal cords to make words that adults can understand. It takes a while for an infant's voice box to finish forming, which is why it can make so many amazing sounds so soon! The flexibility of a new voice box is what makes the baby's range better than an adult's range. 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. Typically, most of a baby's beginning vocabulary will consist of easy vowels and consonants that he can make using only the front of his 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!

It's pretty much common belief that babies learn to smile long after they have entered the world. Gas is usually given credit for the first signs of smiling in a baby's life. For more than a century people believed that smiling was an activity taught to babies by their parents. Common thought said that learning how to express happiness was harder for babies than learning how to express displeasure (which is usually done through crying). Now, however, these theories are being debunked. Smiling has been picked up by newer ultrasound machines, proving the old theories are wrong. Many doctors are now able to print out pictures for families that show the new baby smiling before he or she is born. The belief now is that the birthing process is traumatic for the baby and that it takes a while for the baby to get over it and "learn" to smile again.




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