Parenting

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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

Because that's the only thing they "know" about themselves and roughly control at birth. It takes them about 6 months to even realize their feet are theirs!

Weirdly it also takes about 1 year to realize their mother's is *another* person. 

And it takes them 18 months to realize that person in the mirror is them!

Babies aren't the only ones who do this...