"Don't do that!", They told us every time we played cross-eyed. "That as you give yourself an air you stay like this forever!" They added, frightening us. They told us so much, those phrases marked us so much, that the first few days, when you have your newborn baby in your arms and you see it squint you get scared.
That's when you wonder what milk is that of "air", and you look at the windows to make sure they are closed, lest they refer to a stream of air. The fact is that you were internal, even though that "you're going to stay like that" seemed tremendously absurd, your subconscious tells you that it would be better if your baby didn't do it, and you wonder It is normal?
It is normal to be cross-eyed, in the first months
Yes, it is normal to happen in the first months, and I would almost say in the first weeks. The fact that she squints is due to two reasons: immaturity of the eye muscles Y how bad they see when they are born
In reference to the eye muscles, it is more or less like the rest of the body. Nerve impulses are relatively ineffective when it comes to moving the body, and the body moves awkwardly, without being the muscles capable of doing practically nothing right. They do not just coordinate the hand with the eye, they cannot use their fingers to take things, they are not able to crawl or walk, and they move a lot for the little they get.
Well, the same thing happens with the muscles of the eyes, which, being immature, cause the eyes to move awkwardly behind something that has caught their attention, sometimes crossing both eyes.
If we talk about how bad they see, as we have already said on occasion, tell you that they are certainly born seeing grief. Some say that they even see black and white, so imagine. To this is added that they have a very poor approach, since they are only able to see with relative clarity what is about 20-30 cm, and together we have a visual system in which the least rare is that it becomes cross-eyed.
Those 20 to 30 cm away are great for you to recognize your mother or father when they take you in your arms, or when you are sucking, because it is the distance between your eyes and the face of the adult. However they do not give for much more, and when they try to look at things that are farther away they end up getting cross-eyed when trying to focus and see something well for which they are not prepared.
The third theory
I also have a theory related to adaptation to the environment. Babies are so immature that many are easily stressed and end up "exploding" in the late evening, crying until they can no longer, in what many know as colic and that I describe more as a "here I have come" baby. Not being able to focus well would be, then, a benefit in the form of stimulus limiter, seeing the baby better as his eyes mature and as he is more able to manage everything he sees. Imagine how terrible it can be for a baby to see everything crisp and receive so much visual stimulation per minute. They would end up crazy, and more if one of those gives them to watch TV and just one of our politicians comes out saying barbarities. Crazy for life.
In short, it is normal for them not to see too well, it's normal for them to squint and eventually stop doing it. If after a few months he continues to do so, then the pediatrician must be asked, in case that strabismus had to be controlled.
