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It moves, blinks, and smiles. Newborns love to look at faces, especially a familiar one. Give him yours. there's something uniquely appealing about the order of features in the face. Researchers showed four different diagrams to forty newborns at a mean age of nine minutes. The babies turned their heads and eyes displayed interest in the diagram that showed the facial parts in the right configuration. They showed less interest in diagrams in which the facial parts were scrambled. If you play the face-preference game, dad may win. Because of their preference for light-dark contrast, babies often pay more attention to the male face, especially if it has a beard or mustache. While a parent's face will always be baby's best eye-catcher, next in order of preference are black-and-white drawings or photos of a face, and black-and-white contrasting patterns such as checkerboards, stripes, and bull's eye.Newborns are very discerning about what they choose to look at. If you don't wear glasses and suddenly put on a pair, or if your baby gets used to seeing you with glasses on and you take them off, he may look puzzled and turn away, as if thinking, "What's wrong with this picture?" This visual perception indicates that even a newborn can store familiar patterns in his visual memory bank. The newborn is programmed to pay attention to the human face even from birth.Tips For Holding Baby's Visual Attention *

Sit or hold baby upright. * Wait for baby to be in the quiet alert state. * Keep object or face around ten inches (twenty-five centimeters) from baby's face. * Use animated facial gestures (wide open mouth and eyes) while speaking in a slow, rhythmic, exaggerated tone.Fixating"Sometimes he's cross-eyed, sometimes he's not" parents often observe. Periodic crossed eyes are normal. Constant crossed eyes need medical attention. Eye may not be constantly straight until six months of age. Because newborns do not use both eye together, images do not fall at the same point on the retina in each eye. This results in poor depth perception. As baby learns to hold her head and eyes still, images become clearer, depth perception improves, and baby holds a long fix on your eyes. This binocular vision starts to develop around six weeks and is well established by four months.How to Tell If Your Baby's Eyes Are CrossedBecause some babies have wide nasal bridges, you may not see much of the whites of the eyes. Consequently the eyes may appear crossed, but really aren't. Here's how to tell. Shine a penlight into your baby's eyes (or take a flash photo), Notice the location of the light reflex, the white dot on baby's eyes. It should be in the same place in each eye. If the dot is in the center of the pupil in one eye but off center in the other, one or both eyes have lazy muscles. Report your findings to your doctor.

During well-baby exams, this is how your doctor checks baby's eyes.GazingDuring the first few weeks your baby's eyes scan your face but seldom are still and fixed directly onto your eyes for more than a fleeting second or two, despite your pleading, "Look at me." Even though your baby starts focusing better around two weeks, expect her eyes to continue to move most of the time. Holding a fix on either a still or moving object does not click in until around four months.Sometimes if a newborn is in a relaxed interested, and quiet alert state, a face or an object may hold her attention for several minutes. Try this gazing game: Hold your baby within her own clear-vision distance (which you can determine by slowly telescoping your baby toward and away from your face until you reach a distance that best holds her attention -- this is usually somewhere between eight and thirteen inches/twenty and thirty-three centimeters).Babies are more likely to become bored with visual games when lying on their back and become more attentive when placed in the upright position.What Newborns Can HearNewborns prefer mother's high-pitched voice to father's and prefer sounds with a womb-like beat. That's the music they're used to. They calm best to soothing sounds with a slowly rising and falling rhythm, like classical music. Loud rock music that has a disorderly rhythm disturbs their peace.Newborns appear to recognize the sounds they heard repeatedly while in the womb, such as a favorite piano piece that mother played often during her pregnancy. Babies and children are also more attentive to stories that mother frequently read out loud during her pregnancy.You don't have to tiptoe and whisper around a sleeping newborn.