Careful mothers will find that the baby's round eyes will always stare at the mother, especially when feeding the baby, they will always look up and smile at the mother.
Baby likes to stare at mothers, in fact, it is related to brain development and visual development, and the reasons behind it are also heartwarming.
1. The baby's brain development
0~1 year old is the golden period of baby's brain development, which is 175% higher than when he was born.
UK Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development and University of London scholars have studied the responses of 4-month-old babies to observe changes in facial expressions.
The result found that the baby can actually feel that others are watching him, and when he discovers this, his cerebral cortex will be stimulated and relevant areas of the brain will respond.
Therefore, experts believe that 4-month-old babies can recognize human facial expressions, see signals such as anger and smile, and will use their eyes to interact with others. For babies, what he likes to study most is the mother's expression.
When the baby looks at his mother's smiling face, he accepts his mother's gaze. He will stare at his mother and respond to his mother with a smile. Therefore, mothers can stimulate their baby's brain development by playing hide-and-seek games with their babies.
2. Baby's visual development
The process of baby's vision development can be a development process from the first day after birth to the age of 8.
The vision of the newborn is not perfect, and the line of vision is relatively narrow, so he can only distinguish between dark and black and white, so he cannot see objects in the distance and cannot recognize his mother.
Babies 3 weeks after birth can look at larger objects, and can also distinguish colors. Both eyes can follow the object rotation in one direction.
2 months old, the baby can keep a long eye with the adult's hands.
3 months old, the baby can not only look after objects, but his head will also rotate.
4 months old, the baby's head can be raised and he often looks at his hands.
6 months old, the baby can sit up, and when his head and eyes rotate with the object, his body will also rotate, and he can stare at other targets such as brightly colored toys for half a minute.
9 months old, the baby can look at a single line, and his vision is about 0.1.
12 months old, most babies will play with toys and can look at objects close to each other. They can point their nose, eyes and hair according to their mother's instructions.
Baby's vision is related to the visual nerves of the brain. By the time the baby is 3-4 months old, as the baby's brain develops, the vision range will become wider and wider. It can be imagined that after working hard for 3 months, the baby can finally recognize his mother through his eyesight. He is naturally ecstatic and his eyes like to stay on his mother.
3. The baby expresses love to his mother.
Whether it is breastfeeding or milk powder feeding, for babies, the person who takes care of themselves the most is the mother, and they are also used to the mother's care.
So no matter whether the mother is by her side or not, the baby's eyes always follow her mother's figure involuntarily and express their love and attachment to her mother.
4. Staring at your own food ration
This may be the most direct reason. Because the food rations that can support the baby's life are all with the mother. What if the baby doesn't stare at the mother and loses his food rations? Many babies who stare at their own food rations will immediately cry if their mother leaves their sight, but as long as the mother returns to him, the baby will stop crying.
So, the baby stares at the mother, which is not only related to brain development, but also wants to express his love for the mother through his own way. Therefore, mothers must respond to the baby's needs in a timely manner and give the baby a sense of security.
