HOW DO BABIES SEE THE WORLD ?

HOW DO BABIES SEE THE WORLD ?

Have you ever wondered how this world would be in the face of new born babies? How will the world looks in their face, upside down or how we see it.

Babies are amazing creatures, the process of their growth amaze mostly new parents and how quickly they grow often take them by surprise.
Research shows that babies actually see the world upside down based on how their eyes perceive the world before the brain crunches the data. At birth, babies eyesight is between 20/400 and 20/200, therefore, due to process of refraction through a convex lens which bend the light through a surface that bows outward in the middle, just exactly like camera lens.

Why do babies vision always fuzzy at birth?

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At birth, babies vision can only see about 12 to 18 inches away just far enough to clearly see the face of the person holding them. However, their eyes are sensitive to bright light , so babies are more likely to open eyes in low light than opening it widely, until their vision improves and the eyes muscle is strengthen .

Babies look after 1 to 2 months

After a month or two, babies would have learned how to move the eyes and focus it more on an object or focus it on the movement of your face. The ability to track devices will be high, at this stage babies would be able to start having international eye contact and have a gaze on the face of their mother.
Any movement will transfix the face of the babies which will make color differences to be clear to the face of the babies.
However, research shows that if you move close enough to the baby, the baby might try to touch, stroke your mouth while taking.
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When babies are born with three types of cone, it takes time for the cell to mature and for the brain to make sense of the signals.
Babies would be able to differentiate colors, either red or green color, all these can happen to baby’s vision in nothing less than 2 to 3 months. Research shows that this type of color must be a strong color (primary color) because if you show a baby some kind of washed out color they might not be able to see it

How babies taste and touch

As we all know that touch is the first sense to develop, whereas, touch develops from the womb and it probably the most advanced at birth. However, babies thrive on lot of physical contacts, which makes them feel cozy and loved.

Babies ability to taste start from the womb just exactly like how they touch, babies develops taste bud from the womb because they are exposed to the mother’s diet through the ammonic fluid in the mother’s body during the time of pregnancy.

Research shows that mother’s continue to share flavors with the babies after their birth through the breast milk because the taste of food also passes through the breast milk given to babies.

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Therefore, no matter what the mother eat during the time of pregnancy and first months of motherhood, the babies are also born with sweet tooth. That is why most babies eagerly gulp breast milk or formula since they are both sweet.

An expert confirmed the relationship touch creates between the parents and the new born baby,

“More than any other sense, touch ensures bonding between parents and babies’ – Laura Jana

These are some ways to get connected with babies

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This method can sound somehow but trust me-you, they are super easy and fun way to connect with babies.

• Giving babies gentle massage, this will make them smile and stare at the you when you stopped it.
• Swaddling babies in a comfy blanket will help on the long run
• Cuddling the bare chest of the babies against the holders chest for some minutes
• Rubbing babies back during the time of feeding them, bring a good connection to the babies .

In Conclusion

By the time baby is 4 to 6 months old, distant objects become more intriguing and at this stage, its very obvious that babies does not have any approximating the life experience the parents have and self awareness most parents have. Therefore,when a baby bonds to his parent, he cant clearly express it.
Babies are born with this natural tokens of affection, which is very limited. So, when babies handlers are talking, the babies usually turn their head to the direction of the speaker even when there are lot of people at that particular place.
Strong bond with babies is very essential.
Now you can really have some fun! Everything takes on a new look from the simplest toy to the décor of the nursery.