The neighbor's 4-month-old baby girl is particularly cute, with big eyes, long eyelashes, a high nose, a small mouth, wearing a cute little skirt, like a little princess, and the overall is the "Trick Life Daughter Series", which makes people want to hold it in their hands at a glance.
My family is two sons, I can't move when I see it, I can't help but step forward and hug it, who knows that the baby began to cry just after I started, no matter how I coaxed, I didn't stop, there was no way, I could only return the baby to her mother.
As soon as the baby returns to the mother's hand, the crying immediately stops, just like there are buttons on the body, as long as you press it, you can control the baby to cry or stop.
But in fact, I think that the buttons are not as sensitive as the baby, after all, sometimes the button is delayed, and the baby's skill is not half a mistake.
It's amazing!
Regarding recognizing mothers, babies already have this skill at birth.
Yes, you read that right, in fact, the baby has just been born and already has the skills to recognize the mother.
At that time, the baby recognized the mother by:
1. Listen to the sound
A large part of the reason newborns recognize their mothers is due to the help of sound.
After all, the fetus can hear sounds inside the uterine cavity after 4 months and outside the uterus after 7 months.
Often heard sounds, the baby can also distinguish whether it is the father or the mother, so the baby can recognize the mother by listening to the sound after birth.
These sounds include mom's heartbeat and speech.
The baby is connected to the mother's blood in the mother's belly, and spent the most intimate ten months together, during which the baby spends every day in the mother's heartbeat and the mother's usual speech.
This familiar feeling is so that when the baby is born, you can't forget it, as long as you get closer, feel the familiar heartbeat rate, or hear the mother's voice, the baby can know that this is the mother.
2. Sense of smell
Newborns begin to have a sense of smell at birth.
The seventh edition of the American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Encyclopedia summarizes olfactory development milestones for first-month infants:
Babies love sweetness
Dislikes bitterness and sourness
Be able to discern the taste of mother's milk
In fact, the newborn's sense of smell is obvious about 5 days after birth, and the baby can smell some good smell.
About a week after the baby is born, he can turn his head to his granary ~ mother's milk very accurately. Room, this is because of milk. The halo secretes a special substance to attract the baby, so that the baby can accurately find the location of the granary.
And this skill of the baby is only effective for the mother.
If it is another new mother, this skill of the baby will be invalid.
So the baby can recognize the mother very accurately.
3. Vision
In fact, vision can help the baby recognize the mother is not very helpful, because the newborn's vision is really "too poor".
The visual development milestones for first-month babies in the seventh edition of the American Academy of Pediatrics Encyclopedia of Parenting are as follows:
The focusing range is 20~30cm
The eyes wander and occasionally meet the eyes
Prefer to look at black and white patterns or patterns with contrasting shapes
My favorite thing to see is the face pattern
The newborn baby's eyes are not focused, and all he sees is a blur. When the eyes are gradually able to focus, the range is only 20~30cm.
Even when the moon is full, the baby can only see as far as 90cm away.
In other words, the mother needs to be close to the baby so that the baby can "see" the mother.
Fortunately, when the baby is about one month old, the baby can also vaguely see the mother's face.
It's just that at this time, the baby can't recognize the mother only by sight.
In any case, although the ability needs to be improved, the baby does recognize the mother through his own strength.
How old does a baby really recognize his mother? It is enough to look at these 3 performances
There is a saying: when the mother starts to lose her hair like crazy, it means that the baby knows to recognize people. Mothers generally lose their hair around three to four months after giving birth, which means that the baby will recognize someone at 3-4 months of age.
There is also such a sentence: March recognizes the mother, which means that the baby can recognize the mother in three months.
But in fact, aside from the above hearing and vision, vision alone can only show that the baby is more familiar with the face that often takes care of him.
For example, if grandparents or grandparents often take care of the baby, and the baby only has a sense of familiarity with them, it must be the end of the real recognition of the mother.
So many babies when they are four or five months old, familiar people hold him, he will not resist.
But many babies after seven or eight months, when someone else holds them, the baby will stare at this "outsider", and if it is not found to be the mother, the baby will clearly refuse.
Of course, every baby is different, and you can judge whether the baby really recognizes the mother according to the baby's performance:
1. Babies smile more at their mothers
Babies can laugh out loud around three months, three- or four-month-old babies are very fond of laughing, even if strangers provoke next to them, the baby will show a sweet smile.
But if it is a mother, the baby will smile more heartily, especially when the baby is older and recognizes the mother, the mother can make the baby giggle with a casual movement.
2. The eyes only follow the mother
When the baby has not yet recognized the mother, the baby is not so attached to the mother's behavior, as long as there are fun things can attract the baby's attention.
But when the baby recognizes the mother, no matter who or anything can no longer attract the baby's gaze, the baby's gaze will only follow the mother.
3. Learn to reject others
When the baby has not yet recognized the mother, he does not pay much attention to the question of "who holds".
But when the baby recognizes the mother, it is difficult for others to take the baby away from the mother's hand, even the baby's father.
Babies learn to reject others.
When someone forcibly takes the baby away, the baby will appeal through crying, as long as it can return to the mother's hand, the baby can immediately stop crying, and the remote control is not so sensitive.
Even if the baby is sleepy, the baby only likes to stay in the mother's arms, and even some babies wake up immediately as long as they leave their mother's arms even if they fall asleep.
When the baby recognizes the mother, it means that the mother will work harder, because the baby will be more dependent on the mother.
If you want to avoid this, it is best to let other family members take care of the baby when the baby has not really recognized the mother, so as to avoid the baby being overly dependent on the mother.
So, how old does your baby recognize his mother?