Being new parents means you’re going to read a few books on babies. Well its been two-fold for Melissa and I, as she’s got her 3 French books and I’ve got a couple English ones. So between us, we’ve read around 5 or 6 books, which all pretty much say the same things 
. Even so a couple books stand out above the rest and offer the most insight and easy, practical indexing of topics, while the others collect dust under the bed and die a lonely mis-begotten death 
. The good ones would be (and we’d recommend) ‘What to Expect the First Year’ and ‘Living Better with Your Child: 2007′
However, there are some fun and interesting facts that I am not sure everybody is aware of, so todays post will be just that: baby facts. Now I don’t doubt you may know a few of these if you’re a parent or one in training (or a smarty-pants smart ass!), but hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two and be amazed at discovering the continuing wonders of the human body… that’s right…there’s more to them than BOOBS …but not much! 
(Sam can’t believe it!!!)
- Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adult we have only 206 in our bodies. The reason? Some bones fuse together later.
- A baby is born every 7 seconds.
- One out of every 2000 newborn infants has a tooth when they are born.
- Children born in the month of May are on the average 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month.
- A newborn baby’s head accounts for about one-quarter of it’s entire weight.
Babies and toddlers are, pound for pound, stronger than oxen. This is especially true of their legs.- Babies are born without kneecaps.
- Babies are always born with blue eyes.
- Babies and husbands crave the breast immediately after being awakened.
- The longest recorded interval between the birth of twins was 136 days.
- Newborns usually double their weight by six months.
- By the end of their first year, babies will triple their weight
Kids are fun stuff! They just keep surprising you, everyday is something new! Plus they come in mighty handy when you’re in a jam…
P.S. Did you spot the bogus baby fact? I hope so or else I got some land in Florida to sell ya
Not all babies are born with blue eyes. While a lot of babies are born with that colour, many are born with brown or green eyes. It is said though, that due to a lack of melanin, most babies are born with blue eyes and within 6 months to a year, they can change colour, or simply get darker. I believe I was born with brown eyes.
From about.com…I am not saying they are the authority, but they sum it up pretty well…:
You inherit your eye color from your parents, but no matter what the color is now, it may have been blue when you were born. Why? Melanin, the brown pigment molecule that colors your skin, hair, and eyes, hadn’t been fully deposited in the irises of your eyes or darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light. The iris is the colored part of the eye that controls the amount of light that is allowed to enter. Some other animals are born with blue eyes, too, such as kittens.
Melanin is a protein. Like other proteins, the amount and type you get is coded in your genes. Irises containing a large amount of melanin appear black or brown. Less melanin produces green, gray, or light brown eyes. If your eyes contain very small amounts of melanin, they will appear blue or light gray. People with albinism have no melanin in their irises and their eyes may appear pink because the blood vessels in the back of their eyes reflect light.
Melanin production generally increases during the first year of a baby’s life, leading to a deepening of eye color. The color is often stable by about 6 months of age. However, several factors can affect eye color, including use of certain medications and environmental factors. Some people experience changes in eye color over the course of their lives. People can have eyes of two colors. Even the genetics of eye color inheritance isn’t as cut-and-dried as was once thought, as blue-eyed parents have been known (rarely) to have a brown-eyed child!