A thought which crosses almost every new mom’s head while feeding or changing diapers or while making the little one sleep is – Can my baby see me? Can she recognises me?
• Vision at this stage is just if we look out of a "frosted window”.
• Baby can differentiate between two objects only if separated by a large distance, anything closely placed tends to blur together.
• Baby has a 2D perception of everything.
• Visual acuity is limited (20/600) which means, infant perceive objects at a distance of 20 feet about as clearly as adults do at 600 feet.
• Your baby sees better towards the perimeters of visual field, can best detect features on the edge or rim of what they are looking at, and they don’t notice the features that are directly in front of them.
• Baby can see within a range of 8 to 12 inches of distance.
• Contrast Sensitivity is weak i.e. can only identify bold patterns with high contrast. Can identify only few colours which are, black, white and red.
• Obligatory Looking by 2 months: In the second month, babies may fixate on a single object, sometimes for 30 minutes or more (obligatory looking). The reason for this gaze is because their brain is developing to next level, more wires being geared up, the net result being that if baby wants to look away, an awkward struggle inside his brain prevents him from doing so. He is trapped into endlessly staring at it, unless some rescue.
Though heredity plays an important role in the quality of one’s vision, it is likely that early experience also critically shapes a baby’s skills of observation, hand eye co-ordination and spatial perception. The more a baby sees and the better the input is suited to her visual ability at that particular stage, the better he is likely to be at the many later tasks that depend on vision. So, the objective is to keep baby’s neurons firing by providing exciting stimulus, thereby promoting the development of the visual areas of the brain.
So though your baby can't see you that clearly but Yes, she recognises you through your voice and smell, after all she had been your part for so many months.
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