The sight of the newborn: how it changes month after month.

The baby is there : how it changes month after month.

The development of sight in newborns is progressive: let's discover together how they see and what they learn to recognize faces, objects and colors step by step, from the moment of birth and until complete development.

Every mom and dad wonder what the baby sees when he finds eye to eye, and he squints as if trying to focus on something without succeeding, as if he were "short-sighted" .

And in some ways it is just like that: at birth the sight of the newborn is comparable precisely to that of a short-sighted adult, since the cones and rods that allow the human eye to see deeply have yet to mature .

The sense of sight is the last to be formed: immediately after giving birth, the baby sees little more than he saw in the mother's womb.

He opens and closes his eyes and distinguishes light and dark (he learned to do this already before the 30th week . During the first days of extra-uterine life, babies have their eyes almost always closed, but at two weeks they are already affected by objects of big dimensions.

Some tests confirm that it distinguishes two vertical bands in black and white if they are at least two and a half centimeters thick, presented at a distance of 30 centimeters. Below this size, it mostly sees grayscale .

View of babies and colors

Newborns begin to develop vision already in the womb, but they improve it and distinguish the different colors only after a few weeks. The development will then be complete around the year of life.

Furthermore, from his cradle the baby is able to explore on the horizontal axis, that is, he looks from right to left and vice versa even if during this period he mainly prefers physical contact with his mother : he is born with the senses of smell and touch more developed. Then there are taste, hearing and, lastly, sight.

How babies' vision changes

When he is born he begins to learn to distinguish shapes, but he does not know how to identify them as "images". In an effort to recognize what he observes he can cross his eyes, assuming the typical "squinting" expression of newborns (which lasts approximately up to 6-8 months of life).

He soon begins to distinguish some colors , starting with red and green, followed by yellow and blue.

View of newborns at one month

During the first month of life, in addition to distinguishing light and shadow, the newborn gradually learns to focus on shapes , objects and above all people who are about 20-30 centimeters from his face and reacts to light / dark stimuli .

It focuses in particular on the face of the mother, of which already after a few days of life she can distinguish the shape and features.

View of newborns at two months

Around the age of two months, the baby is able to distinguish facial expressions and focuses on images at distances greater than 30 centimeters.

It is able to see around itself for a perimeter of about two meters and stores what it observes by impressing it in the cerebral cortex and then putting it in connection with the brain, also with the help of the other senses, in particular smell and hearing.

View of newborns at three months

Arriving at three months of life, the baby is able to distinguish the faces of the people around him even at a distance of more than 50 centimeters and to respond with funny grimaces and smiles . He focuses above all on the face of his mother and father, trying to follow the movements of what he observes as much as possible.

The sight of children up to two years of life

After the fourth month, the baby is able to follow the movements of objects and people around him with his eyes and to respond to visual stimuli, and begins to further broaden his color spectrum.

Between 6 and 7 months the baby begins to understand that what he sees can be touched and grasped, and also develops the ability to observe deeply. Some recent studies they suggest that around six months of life a baby is also able to "decode" the expressions of happiness on the face of the parents.

At the age of one or shortly thereafter, he is able to focus on objects at any distance, while once he reaches two years of life his vision is fully developed.

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