It's a fair assumption that you already know some things about babies. Someone has undoubtedly told you that it can take a little bit for babies to start to recognize other people. You know that they understand, instinctual, who their mothers are within moments of being born. Most people understand that each baby will develop at his or her own pace. Baby's do not follow a pre-set schedule for milestones. Unfortunately not many people understand child development beyond the examples already written in this introduction. Infancy is a fascinating period in human development. A life changes so much between the time it is conceived and the time it starts going to school. 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!
At birth a baby's skull has yet to fuse together. This is why it is so important for adults to be careful when handling a newborn's head. If you are not careful when you are handling your baby's head, you could accidentally do quite a bit of damage so tread lightly and carefully when you hold your newborn! After about three months or so, the plates start to come together and fuse and the soft spot isn't as sensitive. You will need to continue to be careful with the front of your child's skull for a while longer because the frontal plates take longer (up to eighteen months) to harden up.
Even while they are in utero, babies can identify music. Different songs can be recognized by the time an infant is thirty four weeks along. A baby can spend more than a month in utero listening to and appreciating different songs. Some babies even pick up on the beat of a song and move around to it! Your baby has definite tastes and preferences even before he is born! Aren't you excited about that?
Did you know that at one point your baby had a tail? It's true! In addition to immediately beginning to build major organs, your baby will also start to form a tail during the first few weeks after conception.
While the rest of the baby's vital organs continue to develop after birth, the tail has usually long since disappeared into the rest of the baby's body by the time it is born. This is not that different from the way a tadpole grows to be a frog. Not everyone completely outgrows their tails-some people are born with tails that are still partially intact. From here the parents can choose whether to have the tail removed or to hope that it disappears over time.
At birth a baby's skull has yet to fuse together. This is why it is so important for adults to be careful when handling a newborn's head. If you are not careful when you are handling your baby's head, you could accidentally do quite a bit of damage so tread lightly and carefully when you hold your newborn! After about three months or so, the plates start to come together and fuse and the soft spot isn't as sensitive. You will need to continue to be careful with the front of your child's skull for a while longer because the frontal plates take longer (up to eighteen months) to harden up.
Even while they are in utero, babies can identify music. Different songs can be recognized by the time an infant is thirty four weeks along. A baby can spend more than a month in utero listening to and appreciating different songs. Some babies even pick up on the beat of a song and move around to it! Your baby has definite tastes and preferences even before he is born! Aren't you excited about that?
Did you know that at one point your baby had a tail? It's true! In addition to immediately beginning to build major organs, your baby will also start to form a tail during the first few weeks after conception.
While the rest of the baby's vital organs continue to develop after birth, the tail has usually long since disappeared into the rest of the baby's body by the time it is born. This is not that different from the way a tadpole grows to be a frog. Not everyone completely outgrows their tails-some people are born with tails that are still partially intact. From here the parents can choose whether to have the tail removed or to hope that it disappears over time.
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