5 Curiosities Of The First Days Of The Baby
No matter how much experience we have as mothers, each baby’s first days are unique. Unintentionally we fall into comparisons with other babies, but in general this stage is full of curiosities.
The day they finally arrive in the world, it will no longer be ordinary, since then it is placed on the birthday calendar. Not to mention that the party begins with his coming into the world.
As first-time parents, the baby will not cease to amaze us. Also, the things we discovered are incredible. Although we discover things little by little, some of us never notice them if they do not tell us before.
Certain details go unnoticed for different reasons. For example, if the baby cries, we worry more about the cause than the tears, so perhaps we never notice that they do not exist … Here are 5 aspects of his life, full of curiosities that perhaps you did not know about newborns.
What happens after the baby is born?
No matter how much planning we have done, the arrival of the little one can be endless chaos. We will begin to forget the main plans and just think about it. For its part, the newborn is also adjusting to life outside the womb. If we take into account that our life changes, then his is absolutely transformed.
It is known that the fetus can perceive some things that happen in the extrauterine context. However, neither suspect the changes that you are going to experience. It is possible that you have ever wondered: What will it be like to breathe inside the uterus? How do you modify these functions? How do they see or hear us? The following better explain how they feel.
1. Curiosities about hair, eyes, mouth and heart
- The baby’s hair is so fragile that it can barely fall out with the rubbing of the sheets. For this reason they are sometimes left with hairless parts on their head quickly. But in no time they will begin to have more resistant hair.
- Newborns do not have open tear ducts, so in their first days they cry without tears.
- Her lips are so delicate that little blisters appear around her from the suction.
- In its first days of life, the baby’s heart beats fast, there are up to twice the beats per minute of an adult, at least between 130 and 160.
2. Curiosities of the respiratory system
- One thing we adults don’t do is breathe and swallow at the same time, but in their first days babies can. They have this option for at least six months, so that they can breastfeed.
- We may be concerned that they sneeze frequently, but this is for the purpose of clearing their airways.
- The baby does not know how to breathe through the mouth, only does it through the nose.
- Newborns are able to hold their breath underwater, and even have the instinct to swim. In a short time this ability disappears.
3. Curiosities about the hygiene of babies
- Babies do not have mature sweat glands, so in their first days they do not sweat.
- The breath of newborns will always be fresh, this because they do not have teeth. Bad breath begins to appear due to the accumulation of bacteria in the teeth
4. Curiosities about the senses in its early days
- Through smell the baby recognizes his mother and other details, this has been his most developed sense.
- From four months in the womb, it is able to hide from light and can react to loud sounds.
- He can only focus vision 25 cm from his eyes, this is the approximate distance between him and his mother when breastfeeding him.
5. Curiosities about the development of weight and height
- While the baby is having a cold, it does not grow.
- At six months the baby will have doubled his birth weight. By the time it reaches its first year it will have tripled it.
- The size of the baby’s foot in its first days is equivalent to a third of what it will be in adulthood. By the time he is one year old, it is about half.
- From conception to birth, your baby’s weight has doubled about three billion times.
- Although the newborn gains more weight in the fall, during the spring they grow twice as much and faster.
- Those born in the month of May can be 200 gr. heavier than babies born in the rest of the year.
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