Loud noise, bright lights and rough handling scare me. I quiet when someone picks me up and cuddles me. Please change my position sometimes so I can look at different things. Your baby has all the same senses you do. Even at birth, babies can see, hear, smell and feel touch.
Babies prefer to look at faces.
For the first few weeks of life, they see best at a distance of eight to 12 inches, just the distance between your face and hers when you hold her close to feed her or talk to her. Bright colors, high contrast patterns and shiny things are more interesting to babies than pastels. Babies may follow moving objects with their eyes for a few seconds. In the first weeks, their heads turn to the side when they lay down, so hang mobiles from the side of the crib, not the top. They prefer high-pitched, gentle voices.