2. A baby is born in the world every three seconds.
4. In four or five out of every 100 newborn babies, there is discharge of milk from the nipples. This is due to unusually high levels of the mother’s hormones that leak across the placenta during pregnancy. Premature babies never have this discharge, only those who are full term.
5. A baby’s head is proportionally huge, being one-quarter of the total body length, compared to only one-eighth of the total adult’s length.
6. At birth, babies have no kneecaps. Kneecaps do not develop completely until after six months.The kneecap bone doesn't harden until between the ages of 2 and 6.
7. Research shows that a baby responds positively to the fragrance of its
mother’s breasts and ignores breast pads used by other women. Even more
striking is the discovery that a blindfolded woman has the ability to
identify her own child from a host of other babies by scent alone.
8. Up until 7 months old, a baby can breathe and swallow at the same time.
9. The brain of a newborn accounts for 10% of its total body
weight. In adults this figure is down to 2%. By the end of the first
year, an infant’s brain increases in size two and half times, and by the
end of the fifth year, it is three times what it was at birth. At all
stages, the male brain is slightly larger than that of the female.
10. Babies are born with natural swimming abilities and can hold their breath. However, this ability quickly disappears.
11. At
around 6 months old, a baby learns that each object is unique. Before
this time, whenever it sees a bird in a tree, it always assumes it was
the same bird.
12. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in its body.
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