Parenting

Parentcaster

evolutionarily speaking, why do babies shove everything into their mouth??

It’s actually really interesting. Afaik infants aren’t aware of the mapping of their mouth, so they stick especially larger objects into their mouths to train themselves how to eventually handle solid food. If you want to go down that rabbit trail -> https://solidstarts.com/ Was super helpful for our kids

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I also think I read our heard once that babies are able to feel textures and shapes a lot better with their tongues than with their fingers at that age 

Can't recall if it's true or not though