Table of contents:
- How can a baby in the womb recognize faces?
- Visual development of the baby in the womb
- The light around the stomach can irritate the fetus
Every parent must always monitor the development of their fetus. In fact, for some parents, knowing the development of the fetus from time to time is fun. Indeed, the growth and development of the fetus until it becomes a baby occurs very fast and rapidly. In fact, it is so fast that your baby can see and recognize faces when he is still in the womb. Do not believe?
How can a baby in the womb recognize faces?
Believe it or not, your fetus has been able to see since it was still in the womb. Not just looking at it, he even recognizes the shape of a person's face. A study has suggested this might happen to your baby.
Research conducted by researchers from Lancaster University, England, states that the fetus can already recognize a person's face even in the womb. The researchers carried out this trial using 4D ultrasound which is thought to be able to show movements up to the fetus's face clearly.
So, in this study, researchers tried to stimulate the fetus and then looked at the fetal response to stimulation from 4D ultrasound. There are two stimuli given to the fetus, namely light stimulation which is only triangular. Meanwhile, another stimulus is a light triangle with two dots added in it, so that it is shaped like a face with eyes.
Then from the results of the study it was known that as many as 39 fetuses lifted their heads 40 times when given stimuli that resembled the shape of a person's face. Meanwhile, the fetus only responds 14 times when the triangle light stimulation is given.
Visual development of the baby in the womb
From these studies, it can be concluded that many unexpected things happened during fetal development. Although it has only recently been discovered that a fetus can see and recognize faces when it is still in the womb, it is normal for all fetuses to have the ability to see at 28 weeks of gestation.
At that gestational age, the fetus's eyelids will open and begin to blink for the first time. Visual ability is the last ability formed by the baby's branch, therefore at birth, the baby can only see at a distance of about 20-30 cm.
The light around the stomach can irritate the fetus
Experts also claim that you should not give your fetus too bright light stimulation - for example, bringing the lamp closer to the mother's stomach. This will only disturb and make the fetus feel uncomfortable, because he can already "see" and receive the light as a stimulus.
It also indicates that any stimulation received will affect fetal development. There have been many studies that have also proven that the sound that the fetus hears from outside the womb affects its cognitive abilities later.
