Babies can not taste salt until they are at least 4 months of age.
Baby eyes are 75% of their adult size. However, their vision is typically around 20/400. They reach 20/0 by about 6 months old.
Newborn babies are more likely to turn their heads to the right than to the left.
The protein that keeps a baby’s skull from fusing is called “noggin.”
Babies are born with 300 bones that fuse down to 206 by the time they reach adulthood.
Adult intestines are about 22 feet long. When babies are born, their intestines are about 11 feet long.
Human babies are the only primates who smile at their parents.
Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Stevie Wonder, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Winston Churchill were all born prematurely.
From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. That’s 69 babies, the most of any individual woman.
Babies have around 30,000 taste buds. Adults have about 10,000.
Some scientists theorize that shaking our heads “no” come from babies turning their heads away from foods that they dislike.
A baby can recognize the smell and voice of its mother at birth. However, it takes several weeks before that same baby can see and understand the difference between its mother and others people.
A baby typically has its first social smile between the ages of 4 and 6 weeks.
In the U.S.A. more babies are born on a Wednesday than on any other day. Sundays are the slowest.
A baby is born every 3 seconds.
The head of a baby is takes up one quarter of its total body length. Adult heads take up on eighth.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They develop them at around 6 months of age.
For the first 7 months, a baby can swallow and breathe at the same time.
Babies are born with the natural ability to hold their breath and “swim” however that ability is quickly lost.
By the time a baby reaches 6 months of age, it learns that objects are unique. Up until then, if a baby were to see a bird in a tree on separate occasions, if would assume that it is the same bird in the same tree.
The majority of newborns lose all of the hair that they are born with by the time they are 3 months old.
Unruly babies in the Middle Ages were believed to be the result of inferior breast milk.
On average, a baby will go through approximately 2,700 diapers a year.
Typically, a baby will prefer the voice of a female over a male. This might be why people often speak to babies in high-pitched voices.
A newborn baby has about 1 cup of blood in its body.
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