Growing up is something that, if we’re being honest, starts at conception. In almost no time at all a baby goes from a ball of rapidly dividing cells to the beginnings of a human being with rudimentary lungs, a brain and a pumping heart. That tiny ball of cells only needs forty weeks to grow and form a human being capable of living on its own. Even after birth the changes happen quickly-personalities and decision making seem to happen almost at once. Things like moving on their own, needing help with diaper changes and even how they learn to speak are pretty commonly understood. Here are some interesting tidbits and trivia about infants that you might have fun learning.

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A baby’s skull is not fused together when it is born. The non-fused skull is one of the reasons that so many adults are afraid to hold newborn children. The “soft spot” is soft for a reason and not being careful around it could cause quite a bit of damage to your child’s development! You will be glad to know that the soft spot stops being so sensitive and soft within a few months. It can take as long as a year and a half for the frontal plates of your baby’s skull to harden, so don’t assume that the worst is over when the soft spot calcifies together.

Your baby, in spite of not being able to talk right away, will amaze you with the range of sounds that he or she can make almost as soon as he or she is born. This is due to the fact that a baby’s larynx won’t be finished developing until long after the baby has been born. It is due to this that a baby can make more sounds than an adult can make. If you pay attention you will find that babies quickly learn to use certain sounds for certain things. It is because of this that a mother is able to learn what a child wants just by listening to him cry for a few seconds. Did you know that the first words a baby says are almost always simple vowels separated by consonants he can make with the front of his mouth? This is why “dada” is usually said before “mama”-because “mama” is harder for a baby to learn to say, but “dada” usually happens almost by accident!

Until recently even doctors believed that babies didn’t smile until a while after they had been born. Gas is usually given credit for the first signs of smiling in a baby’s life. For a long time it was common thought that smiling was a learned behavior-something that the baby learned from his or her parents over the first few weeks of life. Crying seemed to be instinctual so everyone thought it was simply easier for babies to show when they were displeased and that expressing pleasure was something they had to be taught how to do. Now scientists have learned differently. As ultrasound technology advances, people are seeing their children smile while they are still in utero. Many families have been given ultrasound pictures of their smiling children weeks before they are due to be born. The belief now is that the birthing process is traumatic for the baby and that it takes a while for the baby to get over it and “learn” to smile again.

The amount of untapped baby knowledge out there will astound you. You would think the opposite would be true since so many adults like to do research when they don’t know something and take so much pride in their knowledge.

The best way to parent a baby is to arm yourself with lots of knowledge about childhood development. Go to it!

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