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Watching kids develop can fascinate you. The complexity of how a child goes from being a zygote to a functioning adult in just a few years is fascinating. There is so much going on beneath the surface of infancy! There is more to being a baby than simply being cute. Babies have very specific needs that must be met or they will not grow up properly. There is a lot more to infancy than meets the eye. Being a parent is easier if you understand what is going on as your child grows from baby to small kid to teenager and onward.

Babies have three hundred bones in their bodies when they are born. There are only two hundred and six bones in an adult's body. This makes it sound like the bones disappear but the truth is that many of the bones that are separate at birth fuse together into larger bones as children grow up. Some people think that this is one of the reasons that babies are so much more physically flexible than adults, because some of their bones are still able to move about independent of each other. Think about it: how often are you able to eat your own feet as a grown up?

In spite of taking a few months to start forming words that adults can identify, the range of sounds babies can make is amazing. It takes a while for an infant's voice box to finish forming, which is why it can make so many amazing sounds so soon! Adult voice boxes have already begun to stiffen up, which is why babies are better at creating new sounds. Babies quickly start to assign the sounds they make to the things that they want or need. This is how a baby's mother can usually figure out what her child wants just by listening to the sounds her baby is making. Did you know that the first words a baby says are almost always simple vowels separated by consonants he can make with the front of his mouth? Babies will usually say "dada" before "mama" because "dada" uses the front of the mouth and is easier for the baby to learn to say-and it's first utterance is almost always an accident!

Were you aware that babies grow tails as they develop in the womb? That is no lie! As your baby's cells divide, the major organs (heart, lungs, brain) begin to form and so does a tail!

The tail will begin to disappear as the rest of the baby's body takes shape as it grows inside the mother's womb. It is not unlike the way frogs develop from tadpoles. Not everyone completely outgrows their tails-some people are born with tails that are still partially intact. From here the parents can choose whether to have the tail removed or to hope that it disappears over time. You won't have to worry about the affect to your baby if you have the tail removed-it does not affect your baby's health and the surgery is pretty simple. Babies are really interesting little people. We have yet to figure out just how quickly babies learn and by what process they retain those things. There is nothing like watching a baby grow from an infant into an adult-it is a fascinating and mind boggling process!