We tend to think that a child sees the world as we see it and sometimes we forget that he is learning to see just as surely as he is learning to walk.
At birth a baby's eyes act a bit like a fixed-focus camera the ideal focusing distance being eight inches from the bridge of the nose, which is about the distance a mother will hold her baby when looking at him. Babies vary in how rapidly they become able to focus on objects at a greater distance. By nine days some can focus on an object at two-and-a-half feet; by three months, most can focus on an object five feet away. At about three-and-a-half months when the baby begins to grab objects, he develops the ability to see in'3-D' and is also able to look from near to far and back again.
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