What you know and don’t know about babies

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• 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.

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