7 Fun and Interesting Things You Didn't Know About Your Baby

1. During the nine months between the time you got pregnant and birth, a baby's weight increases 3,000 million times.



2. Between birth and age 2, your baby will quadruple in size.



3. At birth, a baby's brain is 10 percent of her total body weight (an adult is 2%).



4. Whithin only 45 hours of birth, a newborn knows her own mother by her smell. (And a blindfolded mom can identify her own baby by scent alone in a line up of other babies).



5. At birth, babies have the ability to swim.



6. Human babies are the only primates to smile at their parents.



7. A newborn has feet that are one third of their adult length. By age one, their feet are nearly half their adult size.