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Baby reacts to pain, heat, cold and certainly, to touch.
The newborn seems to distinguish certain kinds of sounds, smells, and even tastes. The eyes of the neonate are certainly smaller than the the adult eye. The retinal structures are incomplete, and the optic nerve is underdeveloped. Babies are born with some preference for looking at a human face. Visual preferences tell us that the neonate has certain inborn mechanisms that predispose them, just hours after birth, to gaze at others of their kind.