15 things you should know about babies

Infants react quickly to skin contact. This stimulates the production of growth hormones and helps the body respond quickly to these hormones.

1. Infants can cry a lot, but not at all. Although your baby still has tear film to protect and lubricate his eyes, he won't shed tears until he is 3 to 12 weeks old.

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2. Although babies may have hair at birth, they will quickly fall out, and be replaced with new hair, within the first 6 months. Your new hair color will likely be completely different from your original hair color.

3. All children are born with a rosy complexion, including black children. This is because babies have a lot of red blood cells in their blood.

4. Infants have a very developed smell. From the first week of life, an infant can recognize a baby's mother by its smell.

5. Newborns from the very beginning have inherited a delicate hearing, especially with female voices. Babies can very quickly distinguish different sounds.

6. Very few infants can distinguish between tastes, although most prefer sweet liquids.

7. The newborn's eyesight is very poor. Children only see clearly 20 cm or less away, so you have to be very close before your baby can see you clearly. And what's very interesting is that babies prefer to see curves over straight lines.

8. Unlike most people think, babies are not colorblind. Babies like basic colors, especially red and blue.

9. The infant's heart rate is twice as fast as an adult's - about 130 to 160 times a minute.

10. Infants also breathe faster than adults - 30 to 50 times a minute, while adults are only 15 to 20 times a minute.

11. Infants often sneeze and snort to clear their nasal passages. It will take a while for children to learn how to breathe through their mouth when their nose is blocked. To minimize breathing problems for children, try to keep an air clean, free of dust and smoke.

12. Although babies inherit immunity and anti-bacteria from breast milk, they are especially susceptible to colds. So should not let adults who are having colds near children.

13. Infants react quickly to skin contact. This stimulates the production of growth hormones and helps the body respond quickly to these hormones. One study found that premature babies who were regularly exposed to more people gained 47% more weight than other premature babies.

14. Children often get restless, even afraid of strange foods. To limit this, you should let your baby play with food for a while before starting to feed your baby. You can put a little bit of food on your baby's index finger, then slowly put your index finger in your baby's mouth, this is a way to encourage your child to try a new food.

15. Children sometimes need some background noise to easily fall asleep (the uterus is not the quietest place in the world). Some of the following sounds are said to help relax and calm your baby's sleep: recordings of the mother's heartbeat; ticking hours; the sound of flowing streams, the sound of waterfalls or the sound of the sea; the sound of the vacuum cleaner running; the sound of water bubbles in the aquarium; and the sound of the tap running.