Little Bit of Green

You should already know at least a little bit about babies. You understand that babies do not recognize most people right away. Most people already know that babies are able to identify their mothers right after they have been born. Most people understand that each baby will develop at his or her own pace. There is no set schedule for walking or talking or eating solid foods or sitting up or any other “first” in a baby’s life. The fact is that most people do not quite grasp just how intricate a baby’s development really is. Human development is fascinating but infancy is mesmerizing. So many things happen between conception and even early childhood. Those little bodies might look like they can’t accomplish much but the fact is that those babies are working really hard to grow up!

The heart is almost always formed and operational by the time a woman takes her first pregnancy test. A beating heart is usually completed (at least rudimentarily) by twenty one days of life. It is pretty much right around this date that a woman realizes that she is pregnant. If there was ever a marvel about babies it would be that it only takes three weeks for biology to take a couple of individual cells, join them together and form rudimentary organs that start to fully function. Isn’t it marvelous that biology made the foundation of your most important muscle in such a short time? You’re already aware that a fetus can hear sounds while he is still in his mother’s womb. Doctors have proven that babies can hear and react to the sounds that they hear-sometimes very strongly! It does not matter when the baby is born, his ears are still very sensitive to high decibel levels of sound while he is in the womb. A fetus’s ears are impressionable and sensitive. Most doctors agree that while a woman is pregnant and that while her baby is still young that she keeps all of the sounds in her house to levels quieter than her vacuum cleaner. Vacuum cleaners usually push the limit of the baby’s comfort level with noise, so it is a good idea to keep the music down and to avoid things like heavy construction and loud traffic.

Babies have a harder time communicating verbally and often resort to physical communication until they learn how to talk. This physical communication instinct is one reason that so many parents gravitate toward programs like “baby signs.” Signing programs teach babies how to use physical actions for things like hunger, thirst, tiredness, needing a diaper change, etc which helps them communicate better with their parents. Kids who are taught how to communicate through physical means like the “baby signs” program grow up to be better overall communicators than kids who were simply taught how to talk. Many people are fascinated by babies. A babies learning process is largely uncharted territory-nobody truly understands it. There is nothing like watching a baby grow from an infant into an adult-it is a fascinating and mind boggling process!

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