Our top 10 baby facts
They demand attention and they cause stress, worry and sleepless nights, but there’s no doubt that they are the centre of our universe. Babies have got us wrapped around their teeny, tiny, adorable little fingers… and… where were we? Right! We devote unparalleled amounts of time to their care (much to our other halves disappointment.) Each baby is a wonder – and it turns out this is no illusion – babies truly are quite startlingly well designed and this is before they’ve even reached adulthood! We’ve been looking into facts and statistics about them and we really enjoyed it! So here you go, our top ten baby facts:
- Although adults have 206 bones, babies have around 300! This is because many smaller bones fuse together during growth to form larger adult bones.
- One in 2000 babies are born with some teeth (usually lower incisors).
- Babies cannot usually cry tears for the first three week of life and many do not cry ‘properly’ with tears until two months of age or beyond. This is because their tear ducts are underdeveloped at birth.
- It is thought that more than 80% of babies have birthmarks of some kind.
- By the time babies begin to crawl, whether they are left or right handed becomes clearer. Around 10% of the population are born left handed and 1% are ambidextrous.
- A baby’s eyesight is thought to be just as good as an adult’s, however their brains cannot process all the visual information picked up. Babies are most receptive to things within an eight to fifteen inch range at a month of age. Before this, everything is probably blurry.
- The human head grows fastest during the first four months of life, due to rapid brain growth.
- Babies can grasp from birth – this instinctive reaction is behind one of the most touching things babies do – gripping the fingers of caregivers.
- First borns are usually lighter weight than any siblings which follow them.
- Newborn babies gain between four and eight ounces of weight per week.
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