10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Newborn Babies – Become A Smart Parent 

10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Newborn Babies – Become A Smart Parent 

1 – Watching your newborn sleep…there’s nothing better, except for those few moments when they stop brea-thing. Well take comfort, its totally normal. Babies have seemingly odd breathing patterns where they often go anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds without  taking a breath. The very typical phenomenon is called periodic breathing. 2– Newborns have no penchant for sodium. In fact babies can’t even taste the otherwise  ᴜɴᴍɪsᴛᴀᴋᴀʙʟᴇ flavor  of salt, not until they are about four months old.

3– Newborn babies, they certainly know how to cry. Serving as their sole form of verbal communication, ɪʀᴏɴɪᴄᴀʟʟʏ,while sᴄʀᴇᴀᴍɪɴɢ and squinting those tiny eyes, no tears actually form. That’s because despite having functioning tear ducts and ɢʟᴀɴᴅs, their bodies only produce enough tears to keep the eye ʟᴜʙʀɪᴄᴀᴛᴇᴅ. The bigger, falling ᴅʀᴏᴘʟᴇᴛs start coming out one to three months after birth.

4– Newborns can’t see anything more than 8 to 12 inches away, at least not clearly. But really, who cares? That short distance is enough to view the smiling face of the cradling new mom and dad.

5– Newborn babies don’t have ᴋɴᴇᴇᴄᴀᴘs…well not in the traditional sᴇɴsᴇ. What’s under that skin is actually cartilage that looks, on the outside, like a miniature kneecap. No worries though, kneecaps do form over time.

6– That picture perfect moment when the baby is placed on mom’s stomach…yeah that’s nature at its best. Called the “breast crawl”, as soon as the skin to skin contact is made, the infant instinctively knows how to utilize his limbs to scoot forward and reach the mother’s ʙʀᴇᴀsᴛs.

7– Right from birth, an infant is ᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛᴇᴅ to the scent of breast milk. Roughly 2 weeks later, the baby has gotten so ᴀᴄᴄᴜsᴛᴏᴍᴇᴅ to mom’s milk, she is able to ᴅɪsᴛɪɴɢᴜɪsʜ between her own mother’s milk and some other mommy’s.
8 – They don’t need any water until they are six months of age, because till that point, they receive all the hydration and nutrients they need through formula and breast milk.

9– Babies have far more ʙᴏɴᴇs than adults. When the little bundles are born, they have 300 ʙᴏɴᴇs while adults have closer to 200. The little one’s ʙᴏɴᴇs join with time, resulting in the lesser bone count into adulthood.

10– Those soft spots on the head have a purpose. They assist in childbirth, allowing the head to change shape and the ʙᴏɴᴇs to ᴇFFᴏʀᴛʟᴇssʟʏ slide over each other while passing through the ᴄᴀɴᴀʟ.