One of the questions parents ask at birth is the baby what do you see and how does your child see. Some teach them colorful toys believing that they will get their attention that way, but the newborn can barely see.
The truth is that at birth, the child's vision is very poorly developed. It will evolve during the first months of life until you can distinguish shapes, distances and colors. We will focus today on how you see colors the newborn: do you see the world in colors or in black and white?
When you open your eyes for the first time outside the mother's womb, the baby encounters a nebula of images in the gray range, as if we were seeing an old and blurred photo. He does not see clearly, he only distinguishes light and shadow and perceives movements.
You can see only the objects that are within one distance of 20 to 30 centimeters, the same that separates it from the face of the person holding it in its arms. In fact, one of the first visual stimuli that the baby is able to interpret is the mother's face.
It is not known for sure if you only see black and white and a range of grays, and then you perceive new colors, or if you perceive poorly defined colors that intensify as the eye matures.
In the first weeks he begins to show interest in employers black and white. You are attracted to straight lines, stripes, grid designs. The more contrast there is, the more it will get your attention. That is why we recommend mobiles that create contrasts of light and shadow and black and white graphics to stimulate the sense of sight.
Gradually, as your visual perception develops you will begin to be attracted to the most vivid colors. If we place a baby in front of three objects: one red, one blue and one yellow, it will look longer the red, for being the brightest.
At two months all color sensitive eye receptors are already fully functioning. The first color that distinguishes is the Red, then he greenat three months the blue and the yellow.
At four months they can distinguish most colors, while after six months their visual perception already recognizes a wide range of colors and various shades.
