What Is Your Baby Thinking?

Does she know me? Does she dream? Does she love me? Is she happy? We found the answers to all the stuff you wonder about during those middle-of-the-night feedings.

By Hagar Scher

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Babies as young as 3 months old are able to distinguish between photos of adult male and female faces, says Paul C. Quinn, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Delaware, in Newark. His studies suggest that infants do favor one sex over the other -- namely, the gender of the person who's their primary caregiver, whether it's Mom or Dad. "What's interesting is that the preference for one gender over the other appears to be learned from experience -- it's not preprogrammed," says Dr. Quinn.

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Comments (15)

herroyalshortyness wrote:

so maybe its just me, but i feel like my son loved me right away, granted i loved him more first, but it doesnt really matter. i know he loves me now at 2 im his fav person in the world to bad thats going to change when he gets older.

9/12/2010 12:24:48 AM Report Abuse

durgeshpandey12 wrote:

a very interesting piece of information..

9/10/2010 09:52:20 PM Report Abuse

sidneyandjackie1 wrote:

People. Keep clicking "next." There are ten pages.

9/10/2010 09:20:23 PM Report Abuse

unoamore1 wrote:

i dont know how learning anything about your baby whether its 3wks 3mon or 3yrs could be a waste of time personally ill take any information i can get

9/10/2010 11:39:58 AM Report Abuse

Lauren.Throckmorton wrote:

Our little girl associates her Dad with FUN! She's 5 months old, and every time she sees her daddy, she just starts giggling. I could do exactly what he does and she wouldn't even crack a smile. But, as soon as her Dad starts to play with her, she erupts into laughter, pretty cute.

9/10/2010 11:04:43 AM Report Abuse

jbcrystal_2010 wrote:

this is absoluply true my baby girl just see her father's face and she is already smailing before he says something to her......she is his daddy's girl.......

9/10/2010 11:00:13 AM Report Abuse

ksmith1685 wrote:

Doctor Widome is an amazing doctor, we live in the Hershey area, and I was very surprised to see his name up here. My daughter had him for a couple appointments

9/10/2010 09:45:27 AM Report Abuse

turkeeemama wrote:

OH NO, MY BABY reported abuse on accidentr!!!! she got on my computer... so sorry.

9/10/2010 09:45:11 AM Report Abuse

anonymous wrote:

Our children always got fussy in the afternoon until Daddy came home. Then they were happy again. Got doesn't make stupid babies.

9/1/2010 04:44:34 PM Report Abuse

joyceblank1 wrote:

I enjoyed the articles Thank You.

9/1/2010 11:52:03 AM Report Abuse

Lokelani2006 wrote:

although it went to 3 month olds being able to reongnize gender i thought information provided is good and helpful. keep clicking on the next button and go to the one that will give you information that you need. I love being able to look into the future and have advise for the benefit of teaching my daugther. thanks

2/26/2010 01:22:30 PM Report Abuse

honeybee5000 wrote:

Well, I feel cheated. I thought I was going to read about what my baby is thinking at 36 weeks old. Instead I got a sentence about what gender a 3 month baby prefers. This was a waste of my time.

1/28/2010 09:28:28 AM Report Abuse

la75023 wrote:

I have to agree. I clicked on the link looking forward to what I might read and... well, this wasn't at all what I was expecting. I don't know anymore now than I did before :(

12/9/2009 01:19:35 PM Report Abuse

aczbabymama wrote:

oh you gotta keep clicking the next button to browse the other atricles first,,

12/4/2009 08:07:00 PM Report Abuse

aczbabymama wrote:

i agree!!!!!

12/4/2009 08:05:54 PM Report Abuse

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