Did you know that children are much morecommitted than adults? From the side it may seem that they only do that they eat, sleep, belch and drag everything into their mouth. But no, in fact, newborns know exactly what they are doing and at what point in time. Who from adults can boast of this? We have the advantage: we are not so helpless. But also only. Woman's Day has found 25 more facts about kids that will surprise anyone. Children are born without kneecaps. Yes, this is not a typo. In newborns instead of this joint - cartilage, which gradually forms in a cup. This process takes about six months. Therefore, before that, kids crawl on their hands, not on all fours. And yet - children are born with the ability to crawl. And it's not a joke! When a newborn baby is put on the mother's stomach, he is able to reach her breast without help after an hour.
Photo: GettyImages2. May children are the heaviestMany people think that the most weighty babies are born in January - holidays, gluttony, all that. But no. The statistics say that the heaviest children are May. They are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months. By the way, the biggest newborn was a boy who was born in China last year. He weighed 17 kilograms! 3. Newborns do not cry seriously. Yes, they scream. This is the only way that babies can express their dissatisfaction with what is happening. But do not cry! Their tear ducts will form only after three weeks. Then the real crying will begin. By the way, some children start the first teardrop only in 4-5 months. But this is a rarity. Infants have more bones than adults. The newborn has a skeleton of 300 bones. In adult bones - 206. Cool, huh? The thing is that some bones merge together during growth. For example, the skull bones - it actually consists of several parts. This is necessary so that the child's head can pass through the birth canal of a woman. Completely bones of the skull grow together in one box, when the fontanel grows. 5. Birthmarks are the norm. 80 percent of children are born with these specks, which are also called wine stains, and stork bites, and angel kisses. So relax - this is not a pathology. Birthmarks are formed due to the expansion of capillaries during labor. Sometimes the spots appear within a few days or even weeks after birth. And then with the same success disappear.6. Sensory perception in infants is developed in the same way as in us. Males from birth hear no worse than adults. And the sense of smell is even better than ours. The baby is able to instantly recognize the mother's voice even against the background of other voices. But this is the only sound that he will know. All the rest of the baby surprises, because it's new. But children can not boast of one hundred percent vision. Babies are born nearsighted. All because the brain is not yet able to process visual information. After a few weeks, vision comes back to normal.7. Children have hair loss. Malysh can be born black-haired, but there is no guarantee that this will remain so. In the first few weeks of life the baby's hair falls out and wipes. And within a year grow new. So the baby can be born bright with straight hairs, and by the second year turn into a curly-haired wraparound.
Photo: GettyImages8. Infants get to know the world by touchWhy do all the children pull into their mouths? Not only because their teeth are chopped and the gums are itchy. Around the mouth of the baby is the most tactilely sensitive area. Therefore, they explore the world in such a way - the mouth. In addition, babies have a lot of congenital reflexes - about 70. Some are forgotten as they grow. For example, if you hold the child upright, so that the legs touch the surface, he will take a step. And the children jump a lot - it's a fright reflex. So children react to loud noise, for example, or to the feeling that they are falling when you lightly throw them. Babies always sleepAnd if they do not sleep, they want to sleep. Children feel drowsy all the time. The first months the baby is awake only three minutes per hour - and this is by day, at night less. All because at this time the brain actively develops and spends most of its energy on this. The baby does not know how to smile The first realized smile you will see only when the baby is a month, or even two. But here it is worth remembering such a thing as a smile of Buddha. When a person's face is completely relaxed, it forms a slight smile, like an Eastern deity. Some believe that a smile is a natural state of the human face. The child has an innate musical taste. What the mother listened to during pregnancy, the child will listen. True, only the first four months. Then he will start to form his own taste. Until then, even your favorite dance track can play the role of a lullaby. 12. The baby regulates your heart rhythm Israeli scientists have found that when the mother and her newborn baby look into each other's eyes, their hearts begin to beat in unison. But the pulse of a child is much more likely than that of an adult, about 180 beats per minute. A few hours after birth, the frequency drops to 140 beats, and by the year to 115.13. Children are "programmed" to pull everything into their mouths Not only because the mouth is the most sensitive area. The French found out that children are born with the desire to drag everything into their mouths. If the baby can not yet chew the dog's tail or your keys, this does not mean that he does not want it! He was born for this purpose. Children are more sensitive to the taste. Infants have three times more taste buds than adults. As many as one hundred thousand. Taste papillae form in the womb of the mother. Therefore, prospective mothers in the third trimester are advised to try different kinds of products so that the child can taste their taste. With age, excess receptors disappear. A pity. Babies laugh 300 times a day. On average. For comparison: adults allow themselves to giggle up to 60 times a day. Still, kids are able to enjoy life much better than we do.
Photo: GettyImages16. Babies cry with an accent. It sounds strange, but true. Even in the dumb cry of the baby you can distinguish the language shades. So, roaring children prefer in the language spoken by their mother. In the last trimester of pregnancy, unborn children are already learning to distinguish language. Babies have a mustache. But there is no mistake. Approximately in the fourth month of pregnancy, a future mustache begins to grow in the future baby. Then this fluff spreads over the entire body of the baby. This hair is called lanugo. They drop out before the baby is born. The newborn girls have a month. This is probably the most horrible fact about babies. In the womb of the mother, the fetus absorbs estrogen. After birth, the level of this hormone in the blood of the child remains quite high. Therefore, newborn girls can have lochia, lactation and even something like monthly. And sometimes - oh, my God, it's awful - blood from the nipples can be secreted. Children can breathe and swallow at the same time Try to drink water from the bottle. Noticed? You held your breath. And children do not have to do this. Up to seven months, babies can breathe and swallow. Therefore, there are difficulties with feeding, if the baby caught a cold. He simply suffocates with food. 20. Infants are communicative. They can not talk, it does not mean that the baby is not able to communicate. He knows the sign language perfectly. When a child waves with his hands and feet, claps his hands, shows a handle on something, he communicates with you. It's just that we do not always understand this. By the way, the more physical manifestations of communication a child has, the faster he begins to speak. Therefore, swaddling children is evil.21. Babies prefer women. They like to hear the female voice, because it's taller. Many people instinctively shift to a higher tone, communicating with the child. It really works - kids like to listen to this voice. The color of the child's eyes is changing. He was born with deep blue eyes - turned into a gray-eyed teenager. What to do - all children are born blue-eyed. Melanin, responsible for eye color, does not develop until birth. And only after half a year it becomes clear what color of eyes the child will have.
Photo: GettyImages23.Children are not proportionalYou have already noticed this. The head makes up a quarter of the entire body length, and the brain is 10 percent of the total weight. The rest of the body will gradually catch up with the head.24. The child looks equally like both parentsThe general impression may be that you have a copy of the mother or the spitting image of the father in front of you. But if you start comparing noses, eyes and chins, it turns out that the child is equally similar to both mother and father.25. A newborn triples his weight in the first yearAt first, a baby can gain a kilogram per month, then the growth rate slows down. Usually, by six months, a child weighs twice as much as at birth. And by one year - three times. If the growth rate did not decrease, then children would grow to 450 kilos by the age of five.
