Breast milk contains many components that can be broken up into various categories. We looked at tryptophan, a component from one of these categories (amino acids), in week 57 – where we found out that tryptophan helps regulate mood, sleep …
By the Age of Three, the Brain Will Have Reached 80% of Its Final Size!
The brain of a newborn is amazing and has the ability to evolve and mould itself into its environment. This is especially true over the first three years of a child’s development – in the first three years the …
The Inner Ear Is the Only Sense Organ to Fully Develop before Birth!
As we develop in the womb preparing for birth, we don’t completely develop any of our senses except one – hearing. Whilst hearing is not the first sense to develop, it is the first to fully form. The first …
A Baby’s Skull Doesn’t Fuse Together until around Age 2!
Babies’ skulls comprise of six separate bones (the frontal bone, the occipital bone, two parietal bones and two temporal bones) and are held together by strong, stretchy tissue called cranial sutures. At birth, the separate pieces are able to …
Babies Conceived on Valentines Day Have the Lowest Chance of Suffering Multiple Sclerosis
With Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, this week’s fact became pertinent. The reason that babies who are conceived this Tuesday will have the lowest chance of suffering from multiple sclerosis is because of the season of birth effect, something we’ve …
If We Grew Like a Baby We’d Be Over 22 Feet (6.8m) Tall!
Babies grow like weeds, especially in their first 6 months of life when they grow a staggering inch (2.5cm) per month. If we carried on growing at that rate, based on an average birth length of 20 inches or 51cm, …