How cute and magical can a human cub be?
The following article will take you from the perspective of a baby, take a look at the world of babies, and the secrets of babies that are different.
If you happen to have a baby, then you can learn a lot of baby secrets; if your baby has grown up, then when you look at it, you will remember the original little one with a smile.
"The Secret Life of a Baby" is a high-scoring documentary by the British BBC, which introduces the physical and psychological changes of young babies from birth to the age of 2. It's a very interesting time period because few of us as adults can recall that time, but those two years were a period of rapid development of our human bodies and brains.
In this documentary, we can know why babies don't like to eat vegetables, why babies fall asleep as soon as they sit in the car, why there is a terrible 2-year-old... Wait a minute.
1, babies are born swimmers
Can you imagine what happens to an adult who can't swim if he falls into cold water and drowns for five or six minutes? Most likely drowning.
But the little ones are amazing.
British mum Kate took her 6-month-old son and pet dog for a walk along the coast, and just as mom went to chase the dog, the stroller was blown by the wind and slipped into the icy waters.
When my son was rescued, five or six minutes had passed, and this time seemed to be infinite to my mother. The lifeguard gave the baby CPR and then rushed to the hospital, the hospital doctors felt that they were saving a dead baby, and the mother was also very sad to think that "he has been underwater for too long, he must not be able to save it."
But five hours later, the baby miraculously recovered.
Doctors believe that babies recover because their throat, which is taller than an adult's, does not allow water to enter the lungs, but to the stomach. And humans instinctively react in extreme cold conditions, causing the baby's brain to automatically shut down, while also slowing down the death of brain cells.
It is this mechanism that has inspired a technique in neonatal intensive care units: deliberately cooling babies so that the brain is not damaged.
Now that drowning baby is almost 2 years old, he has not produced any physical and psychological trauma, and he jumps around every day.
2. Grasp the reflex
The newborn baby looked so weak and helpless, but he wasn't invincible. When he was born, he already had a grip reflex, and his strength was not small.
Scientists believe that this is a gene that we humans inherited from our ancestors in the great apes, and it can guarantee that babies can feel safe by clinging to adults.
So when the baby is crying, we can try to extend a finger and let him hold it, so that he can feel safe.
3. Super imitation ability
When we go to the zoo, we always like to tease the little monkeys, and we will feel that their imitation ability is too strong.
In fact, our baby's imitation ability is not weaker than that of the little monkey. The newborn baby already has the ability to imitate, and he can imitate the expression he sees within 20 minutes.
4. Magical focus position
Our adult brains can see the real world as a picture and integrate it together. But newborn babies can't do it, so scientists believe that babies have poly vision, and what they see is blurry before their eye muscles become stronger.
So how far can they see things from? This finding is very interesting. The best focus position for a baby is 20 cm from his face, and this position is exactly the distance from which the baby sees the mother's face when the mother is breastfeeding.
You see, it makes perfect sense for babies to love their mothers the most.
5. Sleep as soon as you sit in the car
The quickest way for my little hoon to get to sleep when he was a child was to drive around the neighborhood. No matter how much he had cried before, as soon as he sat in the car, he would definitely sleep.
That's because when the baby is in the womb, the sound of the mother's heart beating is transmitted to the womb, which is almost 90 decibels, and the size and frequency of this sound is exactly the sound of a sports car roaring.
Babies who ride in the car will have a sense of security when they return to the womb, so there is a phenomenon of "sleeping when you sit in the car".
Of course, when your baby hears a familiar sound that has been heard in the womb, he will also have a sense of security, such as his mother's voice. So, a good way to put to sleep can also be the mother's soft chanting.
6, do a lot of dreams every day
We all know that a newborn sleeps about 20 hours a day, but don't think he's sleeping. At this moment, their brains are developing at a high speed, and the neurons in the brain are making rapid connections to help them develop the ability to survive independently faster.
A sleeping baby, the brain is working at high speed because it has to deal with all the strange and new things it encounters during the day.
7, only half a brain, can also live a normal life
We've all heard the word "stroke," and even a slight damage to the brains of old people can cause irreparable damage.
But the baby is different, the smaller the baby, the stronger the adaptability of the brain and the stronger the shaping.
The little boy Thomas has epilepsy and his parents must look after him 24 hours a day. Later, an EEG scan revealed that half of his brain was swollen and deformed.
Doctors recommend brain resection because the younger the baby is, the more adaptable the brain is, and the more likely it is that after some partial resection, the relevant function will be reconstructed to the undamaged part.
Thomas's epilepsy was cured after the operation, and although his ability to fine motorize was still lacking, other aspects quickly caught up with the developmental indicators of normal babies.
Of course, the premise of these is that parents continue to accompany the baby for rehabilitation training, and the more repeated the training, the more neuronal connections in the baby's brain can be made, so that the brain can develop.
8. Newborn babies do not have kneecaps
This knowledge is really the first time I have heard of this knowledge, I only knew that babies have more bones than adults, and many bones will merge during development.
It turns out that when the baby was born, there was no kneecap, no wonder it was soft and soft, no strength.
When the baby is slightly older, he will continue to fall, learn to walk, and the cartilage in the knee will become bone.
9, why the baby does not like to eat vegetables
Scientists believe that in the evolution of humans, there was a self-protective instinct: not to be harmed by poisonous or thorny plants.
So every time we feed our baby leafy greens, it's extra difficult.
Other studies have found that babies always like to eat the food their mother eats when they are pregnant, and the more messy the baby eats, the faster they learn, because then they can learn the difference between solid, liquid or ordinary paste.
10, crying and laughing little cubs
We are very tolerant of babies, even if they always cry loudly or make you unable to sleep all night. However, as long as we see the baby smiling, the anger can disappear at once.
It's as if babies are born to laugh to make people happy.
Indeed, babies are born with laughter, and babies can laugh about 300 times a day.
Of course, they will also use a variety of different cries to express their different needs.
Who wants them to still be little hairy babies who can't speak?
11. Super language learning ability
Studies have shown that babies as young as 6 months old can recognize the difference between 150 sounds in any language in the world.
Xiao Xun always asks me, why do foreign babies naturally speak English? Your baby is not born to speak English, but he can learn whatever language you want him to learn. Of course, the premise is that you have to communicate with him in a certain language all the time.
What about deaf-mute children? Even more interesting, the twin babies below, when they did not enter the nursery, they learned sign language with their parents, and after entering the nursery, they learned to speak.
The 2-year-old twin babies can now use both spoken and sign language.
You see, your baby's potential is far more powerful than we think.
12, terrible two years old
We have heard the word "terrible two years old" a lot, why does the baby suddenly become "disobedient" at the age of 2 or so?
Don't misunderstand the baby, the more difficult the baby, the better his self-awareness development, this time they began the greatest exploration of life. At first, they are aware of their reactions, but soon their self-awareness reaches the most difficult stage, and they feel that the world revolves around them.
Therefore, at this time, they will be labeled by adults as "unreasonable, unreasonable, disobedient, bear children" and so on.
In fact, at this time, they urgently need the help of parents.
We must guide them well, let them know the rules and order of the world, help them better understand themselves, and explore the world.
Most importantly, don't label your child casually, as this is the stage that every child goes through.
From the perspective of children, in fact, they are also helpless, little people who don't understand anything, but there are so many things to learn.
The above 12 little secrets about babies, after reading them, do you deeply agree with them, or suddenly realize.
Parenting is a long and need to continue to learn the road, the so-called "road is long, I will go up and down and explore", children grow up slowly, we parents also slowly learn it.
Because growing up with children is really a very beautiful and worthwhile thing.