Baby Mind Development Phases.
A baby in the womb starts maturing its mind from the development of all encompassing stem cells. Stem cells are essential, since they have the power to turn into any cell that we need in the body, like blood cells, heart cells or brain cells. Most mind cells or neurons that are maturing in the fetal stage will stay with us throughout our entire life, as opposed to any other cell in the body.
A baby in the womb of four weeks is maturing 500,000 mind cells or neurons each minute or so! These maturing mind cells or neurons are given their rightful location in the mind by taking a hold of secondary types of cells called glia cells. From 4 or so months and later the cells or neurons will start forming bonds to different cells or neurons. They do this at a astonishing capacity of 2,000,000 bonds per second. This connecting of the cells or neurons adheres to a blueprint, taken from parents, and their parents.
At roughly the seventh or eighth month of unborn growth the cleaning up begins. In this phase the mind will start getting rid of some bonds, while strengthening different ones. This process seems to be to ensure that only the most useful survive, since the cells or neurons that make up the very first link will last while the others that were directed to create the same link, but made an error, will disappear. As with genetic evolution, the best survive.
At birth a kid’s mind is smaller than one pound, about 33% of the size of the mature mind. Imagining a part of the mind no larger than a thumb tack, it consists of just about ten thousand cells or neurons. After the baby is delivered the five senses will start maturing, of which vision will be the latest.
Of the total development of the mind, 80 percent will occur after birth. In addition, the cleaning up of bonds, will now occur due to feedback from the outside world as opposed to merely a genetic blueprint. Scientific experiments have demonstrated that when a baby gets instant feedback tied to an effort to do something new, like letting out a verbal sound, it will process faster than when no information is given.
After the baby is out of the womb it will use nearly seventy percent 70% of the energy it takes in for the development of the mind. This makes sense of why newborns are usually sleeping in these beginning periods, due to all of the nutrients they take in is used for the development of the mind and body.
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