Newborn Wonders: Your Baby’s First Days Of Life

No matter how much we experience as mothers, the first days of our newborn wonders are always unique. We tend to compare with other babies, but this period of our newborn wonders is still filled with interesting and exciting new things.

The day our baby is born will no longer just be another day on the calendar. It will forever be marked as our child’s birthday. And the celebrations begin the moment he comes into the world.

But if we are first-time mothers, then our baby will continue to surprise us. Moreover, the things we experience are incredible. Although we are constantly experiencing new things, there are things we do not notice at all. Some details go unnoticed for various reasons.

Below we tell you about five aspects of our newborn baby’s life that you may not have known.

What happens after a baby is born?

It does not matter how much time we spend planning. The arrival of the new baby can turn everything into endless chaos. We are starting to forget all the plans we made and the only thing we can think of is our little child.

At the same time, your baby is also in the process of adjusting to life outside the womb. If you think your life is about to change, then remember that your baby’s life has also changed completely.

Researchers have already discovered that the fetus can perceive some of the things that happen in the world outside the womb. But he can not at all begin to imagine the changes he is about to encounter.

Have you ever asked yourself what it must be like to breathe inside the womb? Or how do these features change? How do our babies see and hear us? The following will better explain how they feel.

Newborn wonders: Their hair, eyes, mouth and heart

• A baby’s hair is so fragile that it can fall out simply by being rubbed against a sheet. Therefore, there are many babies who quickly become bald. Soon, stronger hair will begin to grow.
• A newborn baby’s tear ducts are not open, which means babies cry without tears during the first few days of life.
• A baby’s lips are so delicate that small blisters can form around them due to breastfeeding.
• During the first few days, a baby’s heart will beat very fast. In fact, their hearts beat up to twice as many times a minute compared to an adult heart – which is between 130 and 160 per minute.

Respiratory protection

• One thing we adults do not do is breathe and swallow at the same time. But in the first days of the newborn baby, he can do both at once. They retain this ability until they are six months old so that they are able to be breastfed.
• You may be worried because your baby is sneezing all the time. But they do this to cleanse their respiratory system.
• Newborns do not know how to breathe through the mouth. They only breathe through the nose.
• Newborn babies are able to hold their breath under water. They even have an instinct to swim. But this ability quickly disappears.

Newborn hygiene

• As their sweat glands are not yet mature, newborn wonders do not sweat during the first few days.

• A newborn baby’s breathing will always be fresh. This is because they do not have teeth. Bad breath begins to occur due to the accumulation of bacteria in the teeth.

Your baby’s senses during the first few days

• Babies recognize their mother and other details through their sense of smell. The sense of smell is the most well-developed sense.
• After four months in the mother’s womb, the baby is already able to protect itself from light and can respond to loud noises.
• Small babies can only focus their vision up to 23 or 25 cm from their faces. Funny enough, this is also the same distance between mother and baby during breastfeeding.

Physical growth: Weight and size

• Your child does not grow when he has a cold.
• Your baby will have doubled his weight after six months. When he is one year old, he will have tripled it.

• The measurements of your baby’s foot during his first days of life are equivalent to one – third of what it will measure when he reaches adulthood. When your baby is a year old, it will measure about half the length of his adult foot.
• If conceived at birth, your baby’s weight will double about three thousand million times.
• Although newborn wonders take on more in the fall, they grow twice as much in the spring.
• Babies born in the month of May can weigh 200 grams more than babies born the rest of the year.