Right from birth, babies can use all their five senses such as tasting, hearing, seeing, touching and smelling. The recognize mom’s faces and can see whatever is within eight to ten inches from their eyes. They get soothed by hearing lullabies and white sounds. They can recognize mom’s smell and soon learn to identify smell of other family members too. They love to touch everything and explore with their hands.
They also use their mouths in exploring things and try to put everything in their mouths and taste it. With sensory development, sight and hearing develops and become more refined and sniffing things to recognize them become less prominent. In this section, we will see how all the five senses of the babies develop and what all they can use them for. You may even be surprised the uses babies put their senses too.