Things You Might Not Know About Babies
Kids get bigger faster than anybody realizes. In almost no time at all a baby goes from a ball of rapidly dividing cells to the beginnings of a human being with rudimentary lungs, a brain and a pumping heart. There are only forty weeks from conception to independent life. It seems like not very much time passes at all between birth and the time when your baby has very definite likes and dislikes. Things like moving on their own, needing help with diaper changes and even how they learn to speak are pretty commonly understood. Here are some things about infants that you might not yet know.
By the time most women learn that they are pregnant, their babies already have pumping hearts. It only takes about three weeks for a baby’s heart to form and start working. It usually takes until right about this milestone for a woman to learn that she is pregnant. Most people find the fact that a few cells can be turned into an organism with functioning organs is such a small amount of time nothing short of a miracle. Think about the heart you have as an adult; isn’t it amazing that it could be created so quickly?
By the time most women learn that they are pregnant, their babies already have pumping hearts. It only takes about three weeks for a baby’s heart to form and start working. This is usually when most women find out that they are pregnant. If there was ever a marvel about babies it would be that it only takes three weeks for biology to take a couple of individual cells, join them together and form rudimentary organs that start to fully function. Doesn’t it blow your mind that the foundation of the heart that you have now only took a few weeks to make? Knowing how to hold his breath and how to swim are two things that your baby is born with. It won’t be long before your baby forgets how to do these things. This is one of the reasons that water births are gaining in popularity. Because the baby spends the first few months of their lives basically swimming inside their mothers’ wombs, experts believe that giving birth in water helps to ease the transition. “Traditional” birthing in a hospital room is believed to be one of the reasons that babies have such a hard time adjusting to life outside of mom: the harsh transition is too traumatic.
A baby’s first teeth are momentous and dreaded by many parents. 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. Even if you have other children who started teething at an average age, that does not mean that this baby is not going to follow his own schedule.
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. The whole process is similar to the way tadpoles grow up to be tail-less frogs. Not everyone completely outgrows their tails-some people are born with tails that are still partially intact. If this happens the baby’s parents have to decide if they want to have the tail removed or If they simply want to wait and hope that it goes away as their child grows up.
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