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BABIES can breathe and swallow at the same time – adults cannot.

WHEN babies are first born they have 350 bones in their bodies. Adults have only 206 bones as some fuse together as a baby grows up.

A NEW-BORN baby’s body is only twenty per cent of its adult size, while its brain is ninety per cent of its adult volume.

WHEN a baby is born, it has many more taste buds than its mother. It will be able to distinguish its mother’s milk from that of a stranger soon after birth.

STATISTICALLY, a baby born in Singapore or Hong Kong is more likely to survive its first year than a baby born in the USA.

A three-month-old foetus already has the fingerprints it will have for the rest of its life.

AT four months, a foetus can frown.

100,000 nerve cells sprout every minute after conception until, by birth, there are one billion.