2007-03-27 05:50:33 · 4 answers · asked by aelius28 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Actually it is because of developement and stages there off. We develop and grow "from the head down", all vertebrates do. Watch a young puppy run, the two back legs move together rather than separate.
As we learn we need to make that neural pathway, so brain development is vital right from the beginning, where as walking is not.
Once something is learnt is is easy to do, like eating. So less attention can be spent on learning basics like focuses, learning language etc, and more attention on more physical things.
In development you need to learn EVERYTHING, then you get curious about more things and learn to co-ordinate hands then feet.
This is why the brain and therefore head is initially SO big, its function is more vital in the beginning.
The head is oddly shaped as the bones are not yet fused. Essential for delivery.
2007-03-27 06:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess because it deforms the head a bit to adjust to the birth canal. Since the fontanel is still open till a few months after baby's birth (front fontanel 18 months?), the skull bones are quite far apart, making the head look like that of an alien. However, my mum always tells me to massage the head by rubbing your palms together then gently touch your baby's scalp. It should help give your baby's head a rounder shape.
2007-03-27 13:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by Ruby K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man supposedly is smarter than other animals--so that's why we proportionatly have a bigger head than most--but not all animals. In the upper portion or frontal lobe--is where much of the white matter (the thinking and knowing your alive brain material is) and so we all know we are alive--or at least we THINK we are alive--and so ... this makes us all big headed wheter we like it or not..
2007-03-27 12:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by WILLOW-the-wisp-guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have noticed that formula fed babies have a larger forhead than breastfed babies I have based this on attending MANY breastfeeding conferences and not seeing a baby with a larg forhead and then seeing the first baby at walmart with a formula bottle and a huge forhead.
I think it has something to do with a nutritional deficiancy.
Thats just my take on it.
2007-03-27 13:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by Carla R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋