Nine amazing abilities of newborns

In recent years, research on infant potential development has become a global frontier and has achieved world-renowned scientific results. It breaks through people's habitual vision and traditional ideas about babies in the past, and constantly updates the concept of early education. People have discovered that every normal newborn has potential that we didn't expect.

1. Imitation ability

When he is 8 hours old, he will imitate his mother and stick out his tongue.

2. Sound Orientation

In the awakening state, use a small plastic box with a small amount of corn kernels or soybeans, and gently shake it 10 to 15cm away from the newborn's ear to emit sound. Very soft gurgling sound and he will move his eyes or head in the direction of the sound. A newborn likes to hear high-pitched voices and people talking, and will turn his head when his mother calls him. If your baby listens to and reads books such as "Baby Illustrated" every day after birth, your baby will develop reading interests and habits that will have an impact on him throughout his life. The development of his concentration and language skills will be surprisingly advanced.

3. Gaze and pursue

Newborns like to look at things, especially books, things with bright colors, such as red balls or black and white bullseye pictures, bar charts, Chinese characters and so on. He especially likes to look at people's faces, especially the mother's loving smile. If you wear glasses, it will attract him even more. When the red ball moves, the baby's eyes and even head will track the ball moving 20cm away from the eyes. 4. Touch, taste and smell

Newborns like to lie close to their mother’s arms. When the baby cries, you put your hand on the baby’s abdomen and gently press the upper arms, and the baby will stop crying. . Newborns can finely distinguish tastes and have unpleasant expressions for salty, bitter, and sour tastes. When he smells a certain smell, his heart rate increases and his activity level changes. He can distinguish the smell of his mother's breast pads. When he is in good condition, he will also stare at you, smile, suck his own hand or grab the hand of the person talking.

5. Movement ability

Newborns have many innate movement abilities. For example: Crawling reflex: Let the newborn lie on the bed and hold his feet with your hands. The baby can take advantage of the situation and crawl forward.

6. Walking reflex

Hold the baby upright on the bed with bare feet, and he will walk forward step by step in the "cat walk". Children who walk well are like taking a walk.

7. Startle reflex

When stimulated by a sudden noise or violently placed on the bed, the newborn immediately straightens its arms, spreads its fingers, arches its back, and raises its head. Lean back and straighten your legs.

8. Swimming reflex

Babies born underwater can swim around in the water without choking.

9. Stretch reflex

Put your index finger on the palm of the newborn, and you can immediately feel the finger being clenched by the baby (grasp reflex). This allows the examiner to lift the baby up in the air for a few seconds, just as our ancestors would hang from tree branches in the forest, etc.

If these innate abilities are not practiced in time, they will naturally disappear after a few months. If trained in time, this innate reflex will become an acquired skill.

The discovery of newborns’ abilities is considered an important event in the history of science in the 20th century and a milestone in human understanding of itself. It provides the basis for us to scientifically develop the potential of new life from the moment it is born. No wonder some compare the potential of discovering newborns to Columbus's discovery of the New World. However, the development of newborn potential must be carried out by personnel with strict professional training.