# How much do babies learn from their births? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260 "2017-07-14T16:50:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/21 "2017-07-17T12:07:42Z")
Isn’t the idea that babies remember from birth and even still in the womb part of Dianetics and/or Scientology? Completely nuts of course. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/22 "2017-07-17T12:39:00Z")
Although memory is near nonexistent for newborns that doesn’t mean that early experiences have no long term effects. The brain is still very much being formed and the neuron connections are forming at a high rate in response to any outside stimuli. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/23 "2017-07-17T14:32:54Z")
don’t go into the light! Abandon all hope — Ye Who Enter Here ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/24 "2017-07-17T17:34:54Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > **Darren Garrison** the “face with their hands and baby thinks they’ve gone away” bit is related to the development of “object permanence” which typically develops sometime between 6 to 9 months. Goes along with stranger anxiety and separation anxiety, the ability to think of things when out of sight. > > Yes babies learn for experiences from birth on, sensory input shaping brain development. That does not require remembering it. I think the point of the exercise is to cover the \*baby’s \*face with your hands and he will think you’ve gone away. If you cover your own eyes he just thinks you’re bonkers. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/25 "2017-07-17T19:03:58Z")
> [@komolono](#): > > Moms are screaming … is this the place where unhappiness resides? Not all moms are screaming. I was unconscious when my son was born. ☹ > [@](#): > > Mind games - do we try to influence our closest from the beginning. Absolutely! I played hard rock and heavy metal for my child in the womb because I wanted a kid I would enjoy going to concerts with. Guess what! It worked. 😃 > [@](#): > > John Lennon (aka Boy George) give me your best! I got nothing for this. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/26 "2017-07-17T19:05:40Z")
I learned that humans of the female variety have what are called “fingers” and that they take these “fingers” and poke you in the eyeball while you are trying to have fun playing hopscotch in your moms uterus. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/27 "2017-07-17T20:01:55Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > I think the point of the exercise is to cover the \*baby’s \*face with your hands and he will think you’ve gone away. If you cover your own eyes he just thinks you’re bonkers. Unless you have a baby Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260/28 "2017-07-17T22:38:33Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Abandon all hope — Ye Who Enter Here That’s what she said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-babies-learn-from-their-births/791260.md?page=1)