5 Incredible Science Facts About Babies

Babies are incredible tiny humans that are pretty scientifically amazing!. We've compiled our five favorite baby-themed episodes into an adorable and fascinating compilation—join host Stefan Chin and check it out!
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5 Amazing Facts About Babies -

Why Do Babies Smell So Good? -

Why Do Newborn Babies Get Jaundice -

Why Can’t You Remember Being a Baby? -

Does Music Really Make Babies Smarter? -
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[SciShow]

At 2:16 the graphic shows that adult humans have 216 bones, when in fact, they have 206. Apparently, our math wasn’t so good 5 years ago. Thank you to the commenters who pointed this out!

[rhondahuggins]

As a fresh newborn, my eldest neice, stopped crying when her Dad (my brother) began to talk to her. He has a deep 'commanding' voice and talked to her while she was in-vitro. Also, if our kids are any indication, the become 'smart' from you talking (not gibberish 'baby' talk) to them. No shade towards music...but READ to your kids. When I worked as a teacher, it was obvious which students were read to as youngsters. Build that brain!💜

[redj]

Michael made a common mistake; "jaundice" comes from the French word "jaune" which means yellow, but he said "jeune" which means young. Babies with jaundice are both of those, though.

[Bacoprah]

side note on Jaundice vs. staring at a yellow bird; Part of the treatment in hospitals is phototherapy - using light to eliminate bilirubin. so taking the baby outdoor into the sunlight to "stare at a bird" actually could have helped with the jaundice :)

[gonzotown]

The yellow bird thing probably did kind of "work". Sunlight can also help break down the bilirubin, and you'd be exposing the baby to sunlight while looking for that yellow bird.

[bratatouille]

I was born a bit prematurely and was abnormally yellow when born, so the doctors did a bunch of blood tests and me and my mom had to stay at the hospital longer than intended. When all the results for the blood tests came, it turned out everything was fine and they just went "idk, I guess it's just yellow then" and let me and my mom go home.

[ScarsOfAFracturedSou]

Excellent work!!! My wife and I (mostly the wife) had our baby born just yesterday and you touched on a subject of jaudice, which our daughter has due to low milk intake and the fact that my wife is RH- and our daughter is RH+. You guys/gals are the amazing ones, thank you!!!

[gmhelwig]

Regarding childhood amnesia: about 15 years ago, I visited the city where I was born. My parents moved out before my second birthday and we never returned. And yet, when I arrived in the neighborhood where we lived, I recognized the place at some level. It was not the city as a whole that triggered this response, though. Just two specific blocks in the whole city.

[nicolethompson]

I watched this with my baby. He was fascinated and really likes your theme music

[redwarrior]

My teachers in elementary school would always put on classical music whenever we did something silent like a quiz or doing problems. It made the atmosphere positive and I really wanted to go to school every day!

[graciousmaximus]

7:52 "you cant remember anything before you were three" i dont even remember anything before 2 years ago lol

[schellvoges]

I had jaundice as an infant 22 years ago and the doctors told my mother to lay me in direct sunlight for fifteen minutes a day.

[Restilia_ch]

At almost 30 years old, the oldest memory I have is of just before 4 years old, leaving the hospital after a major surgery. It's very vague, but there's one specific thing that anchors that memory: a toy.
I had a blue pontoon-helicopter (the kind designed to be able to land on water) and it was my favorite thing. It was with me in the hospital while I was recovering. And it got left behind. It was replaced with a red sea-plane toy, but that distinction is very clear even 27 years later.

[disappointmentjuice]

8:07 it actually set in, in my sleep, when I was 4. I just remember waking up in a car. Not even the couple hours before, just waking in a car with random people. Yeah, it was confusing.

[ohbabycat]

childhood amnesia doesn't happen to most of my family. my mother and grandmother retained some memories from age 2, and awareness from age 3. I remember some specific things that happened from before I could walk, but it's more that I can remember 'being' a baby. I remember how I felt and thought. it is almost identical to drunkenness.

[katerynashneidmillier]

A member of my family says she can remember something from age 1 year.

My theory is she mentioned the episode to parents when she was before 8, then they reminded it to her several times, and that is what she actually remembers.

[Literally__owl]

Around minute 8 they mentioned the fact that we only begin forget early childhood starting age 8-9, but for some reason I vividly remember my 5 year old self saying out loud "I don't remember myself before a couple months back". Even back then, its as if my memories started happening at a certain point of my development and I was essentially just a walking & unconscious meat-sack until I was suddenly granted sentience in the middle of the day.
Anyway, RANT OVER GOING BACK TO THE VIDEO.

[bdri]

I love your collection videos, even though I've watched them all. you can't get enough of SciShow

[rdxdt]

I have a few memories before i was 3 years old, i remember my grandma teaching me how to read and write( i achieved that on early 3yr old as my parents told me), and i have lots of weak memories of my childhood before i was 10yr old, and i can sure remember with clarity most things that happened.

[garethdean]

What nonsense! I tried to get my niece to help with a simple titration and she couldn't do ANYTHING right. Hydrochloric acid all over the floor! I tell you, babies don't know the first THING about science!