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It is an amazing feeling to cuddle your baby in your arms. Being a new mom, you must wonder what your baby can see. Whether they can see your face properly or you are just another blurry object for them. The answer is that their vision develops gradually from hazy to clear with their development. There are many stages to a baby’s vision development, and each stage happens gradually.
Vision is a critical aspect of human development. It plays a crucial role in the learning of the child. The vision develops like the other organs of the child’s body. Gradually, your baby will learn to focus their eyes, move them, and know the outside world through their eyes. You, as a parent, are surely anxious to know about the developmental phase of your baby’s vision development. This article tells you about the gradual development of your baby’s vision stage-wise. We will also discuss the signs of vision problems and tips to improve your baby’s vision. Stay connected.
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Vision development is the phase of the improvement of the eyesight in babies. When a baby is born, like all other body organs, their eyes also get exposed to the external environment and start adjusting. Gradually their vision starts getting clear. Initially, they cannot see colors or identify the colors of objects. All are hazy for them. After a month, they see the world differently as their vision improves. When they reach one year of age, their vision develops like that of an adult.
Babies can see everything from birth itself, but the vision at this time is not clear and everything appears to be blurry. Gradually with the development of other organs, their eyesight increases, and they can start seeing a thing clearly, differentiate various colors, identify things separately, and more.
Initially, after birth, high-contrast colors attract babies very much. But they cannot distinguish the colors, or their brain cannot process the critical aspects. Within a few weeks, you can see a great development in the vision of your baby. When your baby turns three months and more, they can distinguish primary colors like green, red, and blue and respond to these colors. His newborn eyesight starts at 20/400, which improves to 20/20 when they are three to five years old.
We can segregate the vision development in some timely stage, say month-wise. Let’s have a look.
When your baby turns one year old, they. more or less, have the vision of an adult.
Their eye color at this stage remains the same lifelong. Usually, babies start to stand and walk at this age and try to grab objects by their hand and forefinger. They can judge nearer and further items clearly and make efforts to reach there.
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Usually, babies are born with normal and healthy eyes. But in some cases, there are chances when the baby may have some vision problem. In such cases, you must check with a doctor.
Here are some of the signs for when you should consult an eye specialist.
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From birth to one or two years of age, you can do a lot to improve your baby’s vision. As a parent, you can use the below-mentioned tips.
Vision is an important part of human life, and usually, babies do not have any vision issues with a few exceptions. With their natural development, their vision also grows, and till they turn one or three to five years, they can see like adults. But as a parent, you can use some tips and techniques to help them develop the skills right and fast.
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During the first week of birth, babies cannot identify colors and see things only in black and white.
After a few weeks of birth, at around the 2nd to 4th month mark, babies get better at perceiving colors and respond to bright colors like red, green, and blue.
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