12 Amazing Facts About Babies That You Never Knew

#1 How much blood do they have?

At birth, a baby has around a cup of blood circulating through their body.

#2 Diapers, endless diapers.

From the time they are born until they are fully potty trained a baby will go through around 8,000 diapers on average. They also go through around 2,700 diapers each year.

#3 Due dates are not very accurate.

Despite the due date that babies are given, they are only actually born on that date around 4% of the time. Predicting when a child will be born is far from an exact science.

#4 The US premmie epidemic.

In the united states about 1 out of every 8 lives births is premature. That means that just over half a million children are born prematurely in America every year.

#5 That's a lot of births.

Each year in America there are over 4 million children born. Out of those kids, about 80% of them have some form of birthmark.

#6 So much pee.

Newborn babies pee every 20 minutes on average. By the time they are 6 months old, this frequency decreases to about once every hour.

#7 I can feel your heartbeat.

When a baby is born their heart beats an incredible 180 beats per minute. This decreases to about 140 beats after a few hours and falls to about 115 beats when they reach a year old. By the time they reach adulthood their heart rate is about 70-80 beats per minute.

#8 That's a big gulp.

Until they are around 7 months old a baby can swallow and breathe at the same time. What an awesome ability.

#9 I hope you don't like sleeping.

It has been found that parents lose around 6 months worth of sleep during the first two years of their babies life. Better get used to cat naps.

#10 Do you see what I see?

A newborn can only see about 8-14 inches in front of them until they are around 3 months old. They also only see in black and white. Once their eyes do start to develop they still have a hard time distinguishing different colors.

#11 The big brain.

When they are born a babies brain makes up about ten percent of its body weight. By age 1 their brain more than doubles in size. At age 3 it's more than 3 times the size it was at birth. By the time they are 1 years old their brain is roughly 60% the size of an adult brain.

#12 The truth about twins.

For every 1000 births in the United States, there are around 32 pairs of twins born. This has been the case since around 2004.

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