Your baby’s visual development in the first year

Babies are born with vision that is not yet fully developed. In the first weeks, they are mainly able to perceive light and movement. They can also distinguish between light and dark contrasts and are particularly sensitive to light. His eyesight develops over time with your good fortune and continues to mature. In this guide, we provide you with an overview of your baby's vision during their first year of life. But please always remember: every baby is unique and develops at their own pace.

The first weeks

In their first weeks in this world, babies cannot see particularly well, and certainly not very clearly. Babies are born with limited vision. That is a Protective mechanism, which protects them from unnecessary visual stimuli. But your happiness is already capable Visible from 20 to 30 cm away. So your baby can already admire you when you are breastfeeding or giving a bottle. However, at this stage, your little one’s vision is not particularly sharp, nor is it very colourful. In the first few weeks, everything appears more in shades of grey, and at most, primary colours can be distinguished. But your face is enough to spark real excitement in your little darling within those first few weeks. It is not yet able to perceive your face as a whole but your eyes can already see it.

4 weeks

After the first four weeks, your little one’s optic nerve is well developed. It is now able to follow your face or interesting objects with its eyes. Particularly interesting now are strong contrasts. Furthermore, your luck is, after about a month, in a position To recognise you visually again as well.

2 to 3 months

Your baby is now starting to focus on things.. However, it cannot do this for very long yet. Your little one now recognises familiar faces again. It can now distinguish colours and shapes more easily. Babies are especially drawn to primary colours, which they perceive most readily. Black-and-white contrasts are now particularly interesting. for your happiness.

3 to 4 months

The Your baby's hand-eye coordination is improving gradually. It is now no longer only able to recognise an object, but to reach for it as well. It is now starting to take an interest in age-appropriate toys and everyday objects. Did you know that up until now your baby has been seeing everything double? His brain is only now able to combine the information from both eyes into a single image.

5 to 6 months

Your happiness is now able to see so far that It sees when you leave the room.. Most babies don't particularly like that and they make themselves noticed.

6 to 7 months

From the sixth month onwards, babies are already able to reach for objects purposefully and examine them more closely. Their Spatial vision continues to develop. and they can Better estimate distances. Babies also begin to explore their surroundings with their eyes and react to visual stimuli with great curiosity.

1 year

Your baby has learned an incredible amount in the first year of life. It already perceives everything in its surroundings quite well. However, its vision is not yet as sharp as ours as adults. Your little one’s happiness has now about 50 percent of the visual acuity of an adult acquired.

Overall, during the first months of life, children undergo a fascinating development of their vision, which enables them to perceive and discover the world around them more and more. However, vision is by no means fully developed after the first year of life and continues to develop for many years.

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