Newborns are small, fascinating and adorable, and at the same time very curious. Each baby is a world but they exist aspects related to newborns that are very surprising. Some curiosities of newborns are myths, other truths and others are not yet known much. You may not even know some of the curiosities even when you have children. Let's see what are the curiosities of newborns and to dismantle myths about them.
Babies are born without kneecaps
All the Babies' kneecaps are made of cartilage since they are not ossified yet, that is why they cannot be seen by X-rays. The kneecaps begin as cartilage and then they will develop in the following years of life outside the mother's womb. This allows them to protect themselves from falls as they begin to walk.
It is often said that babies do not have kneecaps, but it would not be correct since they do have, as we have seen. Likewise, the data is still curious.
Newborns cry without tears
The tear ducts of newborns are still closed or not open at all, so they cannot cry with tears. This will happen from the third month of life. What we can see that we usually confuse with tears is simply a basal production to keep the eye lubricated.
Esto does not mean that babies do not suffer although we do not see them cry with tears, since they still cannot. If a newborn cries, it means he needs something or is suffering.
Newborns have more bones than an adult
An average adult has 206 bones and a newborn has 215 bones, about 9 bones more than an adult. This curiosity is due to the fact that many of the bones that humans have they merge over time between them, shortening the number of bones in our body.
So babies can better pass through the birth canal, especially the part of the head that is still without ossification.
Newborn eye color
Most babies are born with light eyes due to melanin, which is still in small amounts. Their eye color usually changes over 3-6 months of life, as they are exposed to sunlight they will darken until they reach their final color.
El eye color of a newborn will be determined by your DNA before birth and it will be the color that the baby will finally have.
A newborn's heart rate is higher than that of an adult
A newborn can safely arrive at 130-160 beats per minute, almost twice that of an average adult. Your pace will gradually decrease eventually to about 70 beats per minute.
Do not be scared if your baby has a high heart rate as it is normal, over the months you will see how his rhythm decreases little by little.
More developed senses for a newborn
- Vista. The baby can focus your sight of objects or people at a distance of about 20-30 centimeterThe farther away they see blurry. As the months go by, you will be able to focus further. Until now it was believed that they saw in black and white, but recently it has been discovered that this is not true. They can see some shades such as intense red, but other shades do not distinguish them. As the months go by, their visual system matures and they will distinguish more shades of colour.
- Touch. Through your sensitive skin they perceive many new sensations for them that they enjoy such as hugs, massages, kisses… Their sense of touch is developed from the moment they are born, thus they perceive information from the world as their sight matures.
- Smell. Newborns have the highly developed and sensitive sense of smell, being able to recognize his mother only by the smell. It is closely related to your basic survival needs.
Because remember… we never quite learn, and babies have a lot to teach us!