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Early childhood development is an amazing subject. The complexity of how a child goes from being a zygote to a functioning adult in just a few years is fascinating. There is so much going on beneath the surface of infancy! Sure babies are cute, but they are incredibly complicated creatures. 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. The more you know about how your child is growing, the better you will be at parenting!

Babies are sensitive to light before they are born. Millions of fibers and nerve endings connect together to create your eyes. The coordination needed for the eyes to function properly is extraordinary. Babies’ eyes are already useful by a few months after conception takes place. By the time your baby has spent six months growing in your womb, he or she will already be sensitive to light. Another amazing “eye fact” about babies: most Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes but will “settle in” to their permanent eye color by the time they are a few months old. Caucasian babies do not usually keep their “original” eye color (blue). So don’t get excited if your baby has blue eyes at birth. That color will probably change.

Did you know that some babies are born with teeth? On the other hand, other babies don’t even start teething until they are more than a year old.

Teething is a process that many parents fear more than they look forward to seeing. There is no right age for teething to start so don’t start to freak out if it happens “too early” or “takes too long” to start. All babies develop at their own paces and even if your other children started teething at a certain age, there is no guarantee that this baby will do the same.

Common knowledge states that babies don’t smile until long after they are born. Many people attribute a smiling mouth shape to gas if the baby is below a certain age. 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. Disapproval and unhappiness were thought to be easier for a baby to express than happiness. These theories have been mostly disproved. Ultrasounds have gotten a lot better in recent years and prove that babies can smile before they are born. Now families are given ultrasound pictures of their smiling children many weeks before the children’s’ due date. Doctors now think that babies seem to “learn” how to smile because it takes them a few weeks to get over the trauma of having been birthed.

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