The Five Senses of a Baby

The baby sees and listens from the moment he or she is born. At the beginning the baby’s vision is tubular and the baby can only see to about twenty or thirty centimeters in distance. In other words, the distance there is between the mother and the baby when the baby is breastfeeding. The baby is able to distinguish faces although not able to perceive details. Their vision is practically in black and white, and the first color they can differentiate is red. However, strong colors such as red and orange stimulate babies and blues and green calm babies down. Newborns love hearing their mother’s voice, as well as the heartbeat, crib songs, classical music and melodic and relaxing sounds. Babies enjoy being carried, rocked, spoiled and kissed. The mother’s smell is comforting to babies and the flavor of the breast milk pleases them. 

Perfect Baby Toys (Newborn)

• Hang mobiles over the baby’s crib

• Baby rattles

• Music boxes or CD player with special baby music

What a Newborn Needs To Learn

• Sucks by reflex if you put your finger in the baby’s mouth

• Grabs onto the nipple to drink milk

• Recognizes his or her parents by the sense of smell

• When the baby gets scared, the baby arches the back and extends his or her legs and arms together and outwards

• When you caress his or her cheek the baby turns the head to look for the nipple

• Follows a light if you turn a flashlight on in a dim lit room

• Grabs onto your finger

• If the baby is laying on his back, turns his head from one side to another, extends his arm and legs on the side to side and bends the extremities of the opposite side.