when can a baby see?

Answer 1

Babies can only see abstract thing in their first days of life. Most things are blurry. They can see about about 12 inches in front of them (about the distance from a nursing baby to his mothers face). Their site becomes much better and they will usully look at faces before anything else. Babies love to study faces. Hope it Helps.

Answer 2

Actually, babies are able to see long before birth...

"Sense of Sight in the Womb
Vision is the last sense to develop. In utero, eyelids remain closed until about the 26th week in order for the retinas to fully develop. Around week 26, the eyes open and even begin to blink! At birth, a baby's vision is perfectly focused from 8 to 12 inches.

As soon as their eyes open in the womb, twins seem to have no trouble locating each other and touching faces or holding hands.

Just as the womb isn't completely quiet, it isn't totally dark, either. As early as week 18, when the eyes are still closed, a baby's retinas can detect a small amount of light filtering through a mother's tissue if she's out in the bright sun or under strong lights. By week 33, the pupils of the eye can now detect light and constrict and dilate, allowing your baby to see dim shapes. Studies shining a bright light on the belly of a woman at 37 weeks have shown a baby's heart rate speeding up in response, or the baby turning toward the light."

I've actually heard of mothers shining lights on their lower abdomen in order to turn a breech infant in preparation for birth...

Hope this helps!!

Answer 3

Good question but a complicated one. Vision has two parts - what the eyes can receive and what the brain can process. A baby has a lot to learn on both fronts. At first he can't focus his eyes or get them to work together. But he keeps trying and gets better and better at it. But the next part is - it takes him a long time to be able to process what he sees. An adult can easily look at a huge collection of colors and shapes and see a face, a tee shirt, and so on. Baby's start with faces - they try to focus on a face and try to find their mothers and fathers. And he gets better at this too. So what can a baby see? Everything and nothing - but more and more each day.

Answer 4

While infants are able to focus at any distance, at first they do not have very good control of their ciliary muscles. This means that during the first 2 months of life they may not focus accurately. Sometimes they focus too close (in front of the object), sometimes too far (behind the object). After about 2 months of age infants begin to be able to focus clear images onto the retina.

By 4 months of age, acuity has improved by a factor of 2, that is to 20/60 vision. By 8 months of age, the nervous system has matured enough to improve acuity by a factor of 2 again, that is to 20/30, and is now nearly as good as normal adult acuity (20/20).

Answer 5

a baby can see the day its born. But its all blury. By the time they start to reach the age of 1 they should start to see more clear. Hope i help a little.

Answer 6

a baby can see almost as soon as ts born, although ts very unfocused. a baby can only really see about a foot from its face, which is about the distance from the breast to the mothers face- coinicidence?

Answer 7

I don't know what they can see and when they can see. But I believe they can feel whatever the mother is going through. A lot of people don't think of that but it's

Answer 8

immediately after they are born. They have 20/20 vision at appx 18 inches (if you are to hold them to nurse, it's about 18 inches from your breast to your face. They can focus on your face perfectly right away) They start being able to control their focus after a couple weeks

Answer 9

Doctors say they can see clearly at about 6 to 8 inches from their face at birth. anything beyond that is blurry.

Answer 10

as soon as they are born. They can at this point see faces at a distance of 30cm which is why they can see you when you hold them in your arms. It increases as they get older