Extremely alert newborn?

[amjon]

I call BS on that determination. They have absolutely no way of knowing exactly what a newborn can see other than guessing. My newborn was clearly focusing at thing far away outside.

Yep, all information about infant development is based on scientists' random guesses.

Oh wait a minute

There is absolutely no fool proof way they KNOW what a baby is seeing. The only way they could know is to ask them and I don't see any newborns giving them an answer. Everything else is a hypothesis that has absolutely no way to be proven!

 

[amjon]

my lo was/is like that always wanting to know what's going on.
At the beginning they can only see up to about 30 centimetres away, it's all a blur past that but they can see shadows.
unfortunately lo is so inquisitive it has been hard sometimes for her to sleep....

I call BS on that determination. They have absolutely no way of knowing exactly what a newborn can see other than guessing. My newborn was clearly focusing at thing far away outside.

Well, I am not a pediatric opthamologist, but I think the methods for determining infant vision are more sophisticated than just a guess, and include experiments that analyse response to visual test strips, and also post-mortem studies.

But I am sure there is some room for variation between individuals. Maybe your babies are super-advanced; if I recall correctly, you have said one of your children was talking at two months?

So next time I go to the eye doctor and they ask, "is this better or this?" I'll just tell them to figure out what I can see with 100% certainty without any input from me. KNOWING what a baby can see is complete BS!

 

[Leids]

It is proven. The studies explain how they determined what a newborn can see in the first few sentences. It's not rocket science.