13 Things You Don’t Know About Babies My Baba 10 September, 2015 Baby, Parenting These are all the things I learned from watching an ITV documentary called The Secret Life of Babies. We have more bones in our body at birth than an adult does You’re not born with knee caps Babies laugh 300 times a day Babies can’t produce tears for the first few months A baby will have crawled 70 miles by their second birthday On arrival a baby’s blood stream re-routes from the placenta to the lungs closing a hole in the heart. This change would need open heart surgery in an adult Babies have a natural ability to swim with a reflex that allows water to go into their stomach rather than their lungs (never try this without a professional swimming teacher) Adults can only identify the 45 sounds that make up our mother tongue, but at 6 months, babies can hear the difference between 150 sounds that make up every language in the world. Babies are born prepared to learn and speak any language Babies watch our mouths when learning new words Scientists think that baby babble might not just be random noises to them Babies can understand 3 x more words than they can say In the first 2 years of our lives we learn to think, walk, feel, talk and start relating to the world around us
