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Focus Book – Baby’s Eye Development

When you hold your newborn in your arm right after the delivery, he can hear your voice and recognize that it’s the significant voice to him. But can he see you well? Well, more precisely, can he see you at all? When he’s just born, his vision is blurry at best, and it will take a long time (6 to 8 months) for him to see the world as clearly as adults do. (It’s said he will recognize you in a few hours after birth, though!) Your newborn does not have good control of ciliary muscles, the special muscles in his eyes that enable his eye lens to contract or relax for focusing. And more importantly, his brain is not fully mature yet to process visual information.

Still, you probably can’t wait for him to see this beautiful world you’ve brought him in – or less organized house with his stuff all around. Won’t it be so cool that he can see you and realize that he’s got your eyes within a few days? Well, that was my wish exactly, but as other baby’s development milestones, you have to wait for his eyes and brain to mature no matter how soon you want it to happen. Yet, here is a book that I used to help him to focus on things better. I don’t know how much it actually helped him to mature his vision, but I loved it because he loved staring at it.

Black White Focus Book for Newborn Babies

Black and white focus book that my mom brought from Korea.

Studies show that high contrast objects are more attractive and visible to newborns. This black and white book full of repeating geometrical patterns are perfect to your new born because it’s easy to see. It is also folding and you can show the panoramic view of 100% high contract world with cool patterns.

My baby loved this even when he was a month (still loves it because of its folding feature), and I believe it helped him to mature his eye sight better or earlier because he was able to see me x away when he was less than 5 months.