What you know and don't know about babies

At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.
1 in 10,000 babies born have their internal organs reversed or “mirrored” from their normal positions.
A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

A baby’s head is one-quarter of its total length, but by age 25 will only be one-eighth of its total length.
A drop of blood contains 250 million cells.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A New born baby loses about half of its nerve cells before it is born.
A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.
A newborn babys brain grows almost 3 times as fast during the first year of life.
At just 12 weeks the human fetus can scowl and squint.
Babies are always born with blue eyes.
Babies are born with pink lungs but they darken in color as we breathe in polluted air.
Babies are color blind when they are born, so they only see black and white.
Babies are, pound for pound, stronger than an ox.
Babies crawl to an average of 200 m a day.
Babies recognize sounds while in mother’s womb.
Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.
Baby foreskin is often used as a skin graft for burn victims.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Children have better sense of smell than adults.
Children have more sensitive ears than adults.
Children lose an average of 90 hairs per day, which increases to 120 by old age.
Newborns will cry out without tears for the first three to six weeks.
Reading aloud to children helps to stimulate brain development.

What you know and don’t know about babies