it's time to wrap up!

some might think that it is weird for me to write about babies, but why not?
i find that there's a lot of things that we don't know about babies.
one day everyone will be a parent, so with this blog i hope other people able to gain few information
about babies,
babies is a fragile thing, in fact it is the most helpless newborn creature compared to any other infants in the world.

Yes, human babies are weak and fragile when compared to other animals.
This is because humans are able to take care of weak and fragile babies indefinitely, where as other animals have to climb, walk, swim or fly very quickly and learn how to fend for themselves in rather short order. Those that can't are eaten by predators or abandoned by their parents.

giraffe baby able to stand up and walk short after they are born

Source: https://www.pinterest.com/colleenhuber3/giraffe/

do you know? babies can actually swallow and breath at the same time!
it might not sound difficult. but is is imposible for adult to do so. 
don't believe me? try to do so.

this is possible for babies. Infants can drink and breathe at the same time because of the way their larynx and hyoid bone are situated. When a baby is born, the larynx, or voicebox, and the hyoid bone are situated higher up in the nasal cavity than in adults, which makes it possible for them to drink and breathe without aspirating, or choking on liquids or foods. As the baby gets older, both the larynx and hyoid bone drop to the adult level, eventually settling about two vertebrae down.

 at birth, babies don't actually have kneecaps.

In babies and children, bones have to be strong enough to support the body, but soft enough to permit continued growth. Until adulthood, when bones reach their final size and strength, they are made of a mixture of hard bone and softer cartilage. The kneecaps are no exception.

A newborn baby’s patella (kneecap) is made almost completely of cartilage. Around age 3 to 5, areas of hard bone start to form in the patella, in irregular patches. These islands of bone expand and grow together over years, gradually fusing to form a firm kneecap around age 10-12. Plenty of cartilage still remains, though, to allow the patella to continue to grow through adolescence. Sometime in late adolescence or young adulthood, the bony patches make a final expansion, replacing almost all cartilage. The result is a pair of nice, strong adult kneecaps.

Sources: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/musculoskeletal/babies-kneecaps.htm

http://answers.webmd.com/answers/1198626/do-babies-have-kneecaps

Usually, for African-American, Hispanic, and Asian babies are almost always born with dark eyes that stay dark. But Caucasian babies are usually born with dark blue or even slate-gray eyes that may change several times before a baby’s first birthday.



What’s responsible for this magical transformation in the baby’s eye color? The answer depends on the amount of melanin present in the iris (the colored part of the eye) — and that in turn is determined by the genes the baby has inherited — as well as other factors.

The role melanin plays in baby’s eye color. Melanin, produced by cells, is the pigment that’s responsible for giving you the color of your skin and hair (or at least the hair color you had as a kid). Just as sunlight turns the skin a darker shade, it does the same thing in the iris. When your baby enters the world (and into the bright lights of the birthing room), the light kick-starts melanin production in the iris, which can lead to eye color changes.



The most dramatic changes will probably occur when your child is between the ages of six months old and nine months old. By that point, the iris has stashed enough pigment so you’ll be able to better predict what the final hue will be. But even so, your baby’s eye color may still hold some surprises — you may continue to notice subtle eye color changes (green eyes slowly turning hazel, say, or hazel ones deepening into brown) until she’s three (just don’t expect baby browns to revert back to blue — dark eyes tend to stay dark for most babies). And in about ten percent of people, eye color can continue to change even into adulthood.

Source: http://www.whattoexpect.com/first-year/ask-heidi/baby-eye-color.aspx
Pictures:

1. http://healthybodylife.com/1715-caucasians-start-blue-eyed/
   
2. http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/23/why-your-hair-and-eye-colors-change/20935803/
   
3. https://www.pinterest.com/noamioliva/beautiful-mixed-race-babies/
   

Newborn Babies Have a Monkey-Strength Grip An infant's grip is so strong that he can support his own weight if you dangle him. The reflex is called the palmar grasp, and it happens when you stroke an infant's palm or put anything in his hand . The instinct doesn't just appear out of nowhere at birth, either. It's seen even in the womb. In fact, anti-abortion activists have used images of babies grasping the hands of their surgeon during in utero operations as propaganda for their cause.

The bad news is that a baby's superstrength grip disappears when he's between 6 and 12 months old. So if you're ever in a situation where you're attacked by babies, you better hope they're not newborns, because you might not make it out alive.

Sources:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20494_5-amazing-things-you-didnt-know-babies-could-do.html

identical twin that were born from one individual sperm are know to be very closed with each other. And they can develop their own language! Which only they are the one who will be able to understand. In other words, it's their secret language, a form of communication known only to them. Terms such as idioglossia, autonomous language or cryptophasia describe the phenomenon of twin language, a fascinating concept that has intrigued researchers and parents alike.

Because twins spend so much time together from birth, and because their mental and linguistic development is so in sync, they are especially likely to invent their own language to the exclusion of everyone – parents and peers alike. Cryptophasia is thought to occur among almost 50% of twins (both identical and fraternal).

Sources:

1. https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/twins-secret-languages
2. http://multiples.about.com/od/twintoddlers/a/twintalk.htm

Video

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A8z9LohLk8

Picture: http://babiesmagz.com/naming-your-twin-babies-with-cute-names/

"Unlike eyesight, which can take a few years to develop, smell is the most advanced sense that babies have at birth," explains Seema Csukas, M.D., director of child health promotion at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. And tots use their sniffer mostly to stay close to you.

Even before birth, fetuses can smell. One study found that 3-day-old infants could recognize the specific smell of their mom's amniotic fluid. At birth, a newborn is drawn to the smell of breast milk; by 2 weeks, a baby can tell the difference between the scent of his mother's breast milk and another mom's milk.

A familiar odor can soothe your infant, a recent Swiss study found, so try holding her with a blanket that smells of breast milk or baby lotion during her next vaccination. For the first two months, your baby prefers your scent to anyone else's. Even at your dirtiest, your baby still thinks you smell like roses.

Source: http://www.parenting.com/article/your-babys-sense-of-smell

Picture: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/19140367137425854/