Can't Immediately See The World, Let's Find Out How Age A Baby Can See Perfectly

YOGYAKARTA - Many parents wonder, how old can babies see the world clearly? In fact, the vision of newborns is not perfect immediately, but develops through a gradual process.

Understanding the stages of visual development is very important for every parent. By knowing when your little one starts to focus on the face and recognizes color, you can provide the right stimulation to support children's growth and development.

Reporting from the American Optometric Association (AOA) page, babies learn to see over time, just like they learn to walk. The ability to focus their eyes, move, and use them together must be learned.

Eye problems can cause developmental delays, so early detection is very important. To understand several stages of vision in babies, here are some important things you need to understand:

Newborn babies can see, but not as good as older children. Their visual system has not fully developed. A significant increase occurred during the first few months of life.

When born, what do newborns see? Their main focus is only on objects with a distance of 20 to 30 cm from their faces, namely the distance of the face of the elderly when breastfeeding.

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Thus, early vision in the months is dominated by high contrast color (black and white). During the first two months, the baby's eyes were often seen selling and this was a normal thing as long as it didn't happen continuously.

Then at the age of about three months, the baby starts to follow the object moving and tries to achieve it (hand-hand coordination).

At this stage, visual developments occur rapidly, including

At the age of 9 to 12 months, babies already have more stable eye muscle control. They start trying to stand up and develop fine motor skills (handling with their thumb and index).

Well, at this age, babies are good enough to estimate distance, allowing them to throw objects quite accurately.

In addition, parents also need to be aware of signs of vision problems in infants. Although vision problems rarely occur, parents must be aware of the following signs that require the attention of specialist doctors.

You need to worry if your baby experiences excessive tears or red or hoarse eyelids. Then if the baby's eyes constantly deviate or July (outside the age of 2 months).

In addition, pay attention to whether your baby is experiencing extreme sensitivity to light, and the emergence of white pupils requires immediate examination.

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