Your Baby’s Journey
Hearing plays a major role in children’s cognitive development, language acquisition, communication skills and learning. Babies start hearing in the womb; first they distinguish the low frequency sounds, such as mother’s heartbeat, or the air floating in mom’s lungs. Later on during pregnancy, they start recognizing mother’s voice and even respond to it. Their ears are fully developed at 35 weeks, and they can hear pretty well at birth, especially high-pitched sounds. Talking, singing, and reading to, and babbling with your baby stimulate their brain, enhance language development, and improve your bonding.
When you welcome your little one into this noisy, colorful and crowded world; unfortunately they cannot see it the same way you do. However, their eyesight develops very fast correlatively with their brain development and gets better as your baby grows older. When they reach the first year mark, your baby can almost see the world like an adult but their vision will not reach at its full maturity up until they are between 3 and 5 years of age.
Continue reading
