Adorable Funny Babeies
Channel: 18 Minus Official
Date: 12/05/2022

Facts About Babies:

1. A baby cannot taste salt until it is 4 months old. The delay may be related to the development of kidneys, which start to process sodium at about that age.

2.In medieval Europe, leeches were commonly used to treat babies’ illnesses. For example, leeches were placed on a baby’s windpipe for croup. Additionally, teething babies were commonly purged or bled.

3. A baby’s eyes are 75% of their adult size, but its vision is around 20/400. By six months, a baby’s vision should reach 20/20.

4. Newborns are more likely to turn their head to the right than to the left.

5. The inner ear is the only sense organ to develop fully before birth. It reaches its adult size by the middle of pregnancy.

6. Within a few days of birth, a baby can distinguish between the touch of bristles that are of different diameters.

7. Baby Crawl The kneecap bone doesn't harden until between the ages of 2 and 6
At birth, babies have no kneecaps. Kneecaps do not develop completely until after six months.

8. Adults have 206 bones. When babies are born, they have 300. Their bones fuse as they grow, resulting in fewer bones as adults.

9. The intestines of a newborn are about 11 feet long. The length will double by the time the baby grows to adulthood.

10. A newborn urinates about every 20 minutes and then roughly every hour at 6 months.
Human babies are the only primates who smile at their parents.

11. If a person who was born 8 lbs. and 20 in. at birth continued growing at the same rate as he does the first year, by the time he reached 20, he’d be 25 ft. tall and weigh nearly 315 lbs.

12. Famous premature babies include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Mark Twain, Stevie Wonder, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Winston Churchill.

13. The largest number of babies born to a woman is 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.

14. In 1978, the first baby was born in Antarctica: Emilio Marcos Palma.

15. Approximately 80% of infants are born with some form of birthmark, usually “stork bites” and “port wine stains.

16. Approximately two or three of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard-of-hearing. More lose their hearing later in childhood.

17. Babies can suffer serious health effects if their mothers have an STD, including death, low birth weight, conjunctivitis (an eye infection), pneumonia, neonatal sepsis (infection in the baby’s blood stream), neurologic damage, blindness, deafness, acute hepatitis, meningitis, chronic liver disease, and cirrhosis. Many of these problems can be prevented if the mother receives prenatal care that includes screening for STDs.

18. Baby Tongue A baby has significantly more tastebuds than an adult
A baby has around 30,000 taste buds. They are not just on the tongue but also on the sides, back, and roof of the mouth. Adults have about 10,000.