{"id":261,"date":"2012-01-03T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/seeing-is-believing"},"modified":"2012-01-03T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:55:41","slug":"your-baby-does-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/your-baby-does-see","title":{"rendered":"Your Baby Does See!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes! Your baby does see! <\/font><\/b><\/div>\n
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\"parenting_201_newborn_seeing\"Like this newborn, we are born being able to see – yet I still hear well-educated adults saying that their newborn "looks as if she is looking at me but I know she can't see me."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Well the adult is incorrect. <\/font><\/b><\/div>\n
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The newborn sees but has more accurate vision in a range of about 10 – 12 inches. That's just about the distance baby is from the adult face when the baby is being held or being breast-fed.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As the baby ages, the vision improves – and we see babies actively watching and following objects with the eyes – but not yet with the head following.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Why?  Go look at a picture of a newborn. See how large the head is? The head of a newborn is almost it's adult size – it's BIG. The head is well developed at birth and the eyes work – but it is too large for the baby to control. So the eyes follow but it will take more development for the head to follow.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As the baby develops, perception continues to be a very important part of the cognitive process. It’s part of how your child learns about the world.  For the young infant, if an object cannot be seen – it does not exist!  And this is why your new baby has no reaction to the removal of the toys from the crib…they no longer exist.<\/span><\/div>\n

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[You can read more about child development in my book You Can Totally Screw Up As A Mom And Still Raise Great Kids<\/a>.<\/i>]<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes! Your baby does see!   Like this newborn, we are born being able to see – yet I still hear well-educated adults saying that their newborn "looks as if she is looking at me but I know she can't see me."   Well the adult is incorrect.   The newborn sees but has more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[532,307,485,385,382,486,310,409,484,312],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-child-development","tag-child-rearing","tag-cognitive-development","tag-human-interest","tag-lynn-dorman-phd","tag-newborns","tag-perception","tag-psychology","tag-seeing","tag-vision","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}