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It’s a fair assumption that you already know some things about babies. You’ve been told that babies take time to recognize people. You already know that a baby will understand on instinct who his mother is even within a minute of being born. There is no set rate for baby development, but most people already understand that fact. There is no set date for walking, talking, forming complete sentences, potty training, rolling over, etc. Unfortunately not many people understand child development beyond the examples already written in this introduction. Infancy is a fascinating period in human development. Between conception and toddlerhood is an incredibly exciting time. It doesn’t look like babies do all that much in their first years of life but beneath that calm (and sometimes fussy) exterior is a factory that is working like mad to grow, change and develop!
Babies have three hundred bones in their bodies when they are born. When a person becomes an adult there are only two hundred and six bones in his or her body. This makes it sound like the bones disappear but the truth is that many of the bones that are separate at birth fuse together into larger bones as children grow up. It is a commonly held belief that the fusing of the bones is what causes adults to lose some of their flexibility-because the individual bones can no longer move independently of each other. If you stop to think about it, it does make some sense: when was the last time you could put your feet in your mouth?
Even though it can take a few months for a baby to form specific words, their range of vocals is quite impressive. This is because the larynx (or voice box) is still developing after babies are born. It is due to this that a baby can make more sounds than an adult can make. If you pay attention you will find that babies quickly learn to use certain sounds for certain things. This is how a baby’s mother can usually figure out what her child wants just by listening to the sounds her baby is making. A baby’s first word is usually one that he can make using the consonants made by the front of his mouth and a couple of vowel sounds. “Dada” is usually a first word because it is easier for the baby to say than “mama” and it is almost always an accident!
While crying is the baby’s main way of signaling that he or she needs or wants something, there won’t be any tears with that wail until a few weeks after he has been born. When a person gets stressed he or she secretes a hormone that is only found in tears. This is one of the reasons people cry when they are stressed-the tears release the hormones which calms the body down. Babies do not produce these hormones before birth. The stress hormone does not usually start to show up until the baby has been out of the womb for at least a few weeks. It takes other babies a few months to begin producing the hormone and crying real tears.
There are plenty of developmental facts about babies that few people know. Ironically, the more information an adult has on a subject the more patience he or she usually has for it when faced with it.
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