53 Amazing Newborn baby facts.

Babies are like super-human on this planet. For new parents, it is like the beginning of new life being mom and dad. This new cute little member of a family who brings a lot of excitement, new experiences, and curiosity in a new parent's life. But, this experience is not less than an adventure.
This new period of adventure begins with pregnancy and continues throughout life lots of new facts get to reveal.
A cute, little baby with lots of surprising and full of curiosity eyes make parents see a new world. This cuteness in their eyes is the best gift for tired people. As new parents begin their journey, the baby shows lots of new facts which make the parent's life full of surprises.
We adults misunderstand the power of baby we believe that babies only do 3 things in their early years, eating, sleeping, and poop.
But there are lots of newborn baby facts which are not known for many of us.

53 Amazing Newborn baby facts.

Surprising and Interesting Baby facts:-

Your newborn needs to be close to you- The baby's entire body is designed to help her feel safe. Her sweet little nose, large eyes, round forehead, and chubby arms, and legs are all designed to trigger emotional responses that elicit a feeling of fierce love and protection so you will do everything in your power to keep her feeling warm and safe.
Your Baby is tear-free- Your Babies can't actually cry because as they can't produce tears there is an absence of tear ducts in the baby, they can't shed tears. For the first few weeks they basically just screaming. This is because, as babies are not born with psychic tearing or tears that indicate emotional distress of individual, they born with basal tearing, which helps to keep eyes moist and healthy and reflex tearing that respond to an irritant. Between 2-4 months of age, a baby will start crying with tears when it gets upset.
Your Baby has a strong sense of smell- Babies used to recognize the sound and smell of their mother almost immediately after birth. Recognizing mother visually takes a few weeks longer. For the baby, the sweat of their mother is like fragrance and sweat of others as a bad odor. So it helps the baby to recognize the mother as the baby can't identify by face immediately after birth.
Your newborn is nearsighted- Your newborn baby only sees till 20-30 cm which is [8-12 inches] in front of their faces. As their visual acuity is very less 20/400.
Your newborn only sees black and white- Newborn can't see any other color except black and white because the nerve cells in his retina and brain that control the vision are not fully developed.
Your baby is born swimmers- babies are born with natural swimming abilities. They can easily hold they breathe underwater and but they lose these skills shortly after birth.
Your baby's name influences his life- Researches indicate that a baby's name influences a baby's life into adulthood. For.eg- a newborn baby [boy] with a feminine name could lead to behavioral problems in life.
Your newborn inner ear is fully developed- The baby's ear is completely developed at the time of birth, the baby within 1/2 hr after birth able to recognize the direction from which the sound is coming and move head accordingly.
Your newborn born without Kneecap's- The baby's born without knee cap, as knee cap doesn't develop into the hard bone until the age between 3yr and 5yr.
Your hairy baby-Yes babies are born with many hairs on their body called lanugo- which produce during the second trimester inside the womb to keep baby warm, and many baby's hairs shed in the womb only or after 4/5 baths within first few weeks.
The shape of your baby head can change- baby's born with a soft skull, which helps them to easily pass through the birth canal. After birth, it takes 9-18 months to develop the skull fully. This time care should be maintained and baby hand should be placed on the soft pillow to maintain the proper shape of the skull if care should not maintain so it also develops conditions like Positional Plagiocephaly, which means flat surface from back side or side of the head. But it doesn't interfere in the brain development of the baby.
Your newborn able to recognize the mood- A newborn can easily recognize and differentiate the mood of an individual by the tone of their speaking. If you will be in an angry mood and shout baby, he starts crying and show the sign of irritation, and if you are smiling and talk with baby in happy mood baby gives you welcoming signs.
Baby with Birthmarks - According to researchers finding, approximately 80% to 85% of neonates are born with some form of birthmarks.
Your baby's taste buds- The baby has around 10,000 taste buds, which is WAY more than adults! They are not just on the tongue, but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Eventually, these extra taste buds disappear.
Your Baby with 300 bones- Yes, your newborn born with 300 bones and later on extra bones fuse together during development.
Your baby born don't have Bodyclock- There is no fixed routine for sleep till 2/3 months after the birth as baby require time to adapt in their environment. They don't have any Circadian rhythm- the baby doesn't know what is morning and night, and when to wake up or to sleep. It takes around 12 weeks to recognize the difference between day and night, it takes around 3-5 months to understand the day and night pattern.
Famous premature babies include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Stevie wonder, Johannes Kepler.
Birthday- Popular day to give birth is Tuesday.
Color of your baby's eye-balls- At the time of birth the eyes of your baby are bluish grey, though the color changes to permanent color within several weeks.
Your baby's brain uses 50% of glucose in its body.
The size of your baby's eye is 3/4 size of adult size.
Your baby is connected to your emotions and your feelings- even before he/she is born. Researchers had pregnant women listen to different types of songs via headphones and then tracked their baby’s movements with an ultrasound. If the mom was listening to music that she enjoyed, the babies moved around more. While many babies move around when music is playing, the headphones meant that the babies were responding to their mother’s emotions and not the music itself.
Rapid Growth of your baby- A baby is continuing to grow at the same rate as it is in the first year till 20 yrs of age then it would be 30 feet tall.
The breathing rate of your baby-A newborn baby's normal breathing rate is around 40 times per minute.
Your baby is always listening- Even before they’re born. A baby as young as 2 days old will recognize his mother’s voice, even if he only hears one single syllable.
Children memory- Children don't remember much before the age of 3, due to condition called 'infantile amnesia,' it is also called childhood amnesia. It is the condition where adults have the inability to recollect the memories, events of their childhood before the age of 2-4 yrs. Neurologists say that early years experiences never make it into long term memory banks because the brain's recording machinery isn't functional yet or because of memory is tied up with language acquisition.
Oily skin of your newborn- It is normal as all newborns are covered with vernix caseosa, oily protection against infection which tries off within the first few days.
Muscles of your baby- At the time of birth, the muscles of the neck and legs are less developed than the muscles of the hands and arms.
Attractive eye's fact of your newborn- The newborn pupils enlarged after birth which makes newborn more attractive and cute and everyone falls in love with their eyes. A baby's eyes are 75% of their adult size and the visual acuity is around 20/400 and his rapidly developed vision reached 20/20 which is like adults when he is 3 to 5 yrs old.
The researcher believes that if a newborn is hungry and a place near mom or her stomach baby uses her arms and legs and through the help of their reflexes baby find the breast of mother and satisfy their hunger.
Newborns are only able to focus 8-10 inches from their faces.
Many researchers found in their study that the symbol of No, is by shaking the head comes from newborn as they turn their head away from food when they are full or don't want to eat.
According to research conducted by The University of Helsinki, Your baby recognizes the music they hear in the womb for up to 4 months after birth. In fact, the song that used to hear inside the womb soothes his/her crankiness
Rapid brain development of your baby- Baby's brain development is more rapid after they were born and more than doubling to reach 60% of its adult size by the baby's first bday.
The fast Heart rate of your baby- The newborn heartbeat was twice as fast as an adult. The heartbeat of the newborn is between 130-160 beats per minute.
Most premature babies are left-handed.
Your newborn blood amount- Baby contains any bare blood in their body. A newborn weighing about 2.5-3.5 kg and contains only 1 cup of blood in their entire body.
Baby repairs your system- It is wrong to understand that baby is helpless in the womb, as A baby in the womb can send stem cells to repair damaged organs of the mother.
Sleeping style of your baby- Babies can sleep with their opened eyes, or moving eyeballs.
Huge head of your baby- A baby's head is huge and covers 1/4 parts of total body length, and an adult is 1/8 of their height.
No dreams for your baby- baby can't able to dream, as we dream about the thing which we are able to think and imagine as a baby receive and imagine any concept or picture so that's why newborns can't dream.
Your baby has a discrete cry- As the baby has its own discrete cry which mom able to distinguish after 4/5 days after birth. Doctors and researches have proven that their discrete cry makes new mom identify own baby, as in early years babies look similar so their cry is discrete which makes mom distinguish her baby.
Prenatal influences on your baby- The prenatal development of the baby influences the postnatal development of the baby as well. In prenatal development, if a mother suffering from Rubella, so baby can show some defects like heart defects, deafness, low birth weight, intellectual disabilities, etc. If the mother consumes alcohol during pregnancy so, her baby can suffer from Fetal Alcohol syndrome, baby shows signs like premature birth, heart defects, brain defect, and hearing issues, intellectual and developmental disabilities, delay in physical development. So the mother's prenatal development influences the baby's life.
Birthday Month facts- Many researches have found that babies who born in the month of "May", usually weight more about 200/300 grams than those born in other months.
The baby's power- The grasping power of a newborn is so strong that its whole body can hang in mid-air, with its bent fingers supporting its weight.
Until 7 months baby's can breathe and swallow at the same time.
The Word "baby" may come from the baby's speech development step called babbling as ba-ba-ba-ba.
Male or Female voice, what's your baby choices?- Babies prefer to give respond to the female voice which is higher in pitch than to male voice.
weight of the baby- The approx weight of the baby is between 2.5-3.5 kg.
Male or female- The baby boy is heavier than the girl child.
The Heaviest child in India- Mother aged 20, gave birth to a baby girl by C-section at Karnataka [India]. It is the biggest baby in India. The baby height is 21cm and normally it is about 50cm and the weight is 6.8kg. Doctors try to find the reason, the overweight newborns are normal in cases where the mother is diabetic but here mother is fit. The doctor said it is a king of inborn error of metabolism. The record so far heaviest Indian baby is held by a boy of Uttar Pradesh weighed 6.7kg. The world record for the heaviest baby was for Boy in Italy in 1955. The boy weighed 10.2kg.
The Youngest Mother in India- In 1932, 6yrs old girl in Delhi gave birth to a baby girl by C-section. The girl has never menstruated but nurses her child for 9 months. So there is a belief that the menstruation cycle is important for pregnancy is now questioned?
Oldest Mother in India- The age of the mother is 72yrs, from Amritsar India. On 12 April 2016 Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a son at age of 72. After 5 decades of marriage, Kaur was finally able to have a baby after undergoing 2 years of IVF treatment.