One of the biggest unknowns of recent parents is knowing how much a newborn sees and how your vision evolves as it grows and it develops. Curiosity is such that many parents ask me to come to the consultation with their newborn if their baby already sees them.
Of course, I say yes, you already see them. What happens is that you cannot say that you see them very well because in the first months the vision is very limited. Do you want to know how that vision is and how it evolves? A GIF shows us that progress in the ability to see from the moment a baby is born until he is one year old..
See what is near relatively well
You will see in the GIF that a newborn does not see just the mother. However, it is not quite true, and that is that the mother in the photo is quite far from the creature. At a distance of about 30 cm, which more or less coincides with the distance of an adult's face when he takes the baby in his lap, he is able to distinguish the person in front of him, or at least the shapes of his face.
In Babies and more When do babies start seeing?The one that gets closer or farther away, stops seeing well and begins to squint trying to find a way to focus what he wants to see. To know graphically how babies see, as we read in IFLScience, the Dr. Romesh Angunawela, an ophthalmologist surgeon Moorfields Eye Hospital London, has worked with a specialized vision clinic to develop this GIF that shows how babies develop eyesight from birth to 12 months.
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The image, as you can see, is nothing more than a photo simulating the first person, as if what you see is the baby's gaze, which shows the mother and father at a distance. In addition, in the background is the decoration of the room, which month by month is better defined until a year of life already has a considerable visual capacity.
But my six-month-old son already sees perfectly
That is what many parents suppose when they see them continue to look at themselves, smile at them, take things and throw them, manipulate them as if to discover them, etc .; However, as you can see in the GIF, they still have enough to consider that the view is similar to ours (well, in fact they have years left for that to happen).
What happens is that their curiosity is such that although they still need to mature visually speaking, they do the possible and the impossible to catch everything that catches their attention to know, look at it, touch it, suck it and so capture the information that each object can report to them.
