10 Fascinating Things about Babies
10 Fun Facts about Babies 10 Fascinating Things about Babies By: Arlene Gentallan @healthbiztips Babies are adorable. You may not realize this but there are some pretty funky stuffs about them. Heck, we were all newborn once. 1. Newborn babies are nearsighted. They can only focus their eyes on objects no further than 8-12 inches. Beyond 12 inches, a newborn's vision is blurry. Newborn babies have terrible vision. It's 20/400. It isn't until 6 months that they reach a 20/20 visual acuity. 2. A newborn baby can instinctively recognize his/her mother's voice. A baby cries with the accent of his/her mother, which reveals that a baby starts to hear even while inside the womb. 3. Babies have more tastebuds than adults. That's about 30,o00 tastebuds compared to 10,000 tastebuds of adults. Despite that, they can't taste salty foods until they reached 4 months of age. 4. Babies are born with no knee caps. 5. Newborn babies can breath and swallow at the same time unt...