Race and Ethnicity Research. The Census Bureau has a long history of conducting research to improve questions and data on race and ethnicity. Since the 1970s, the Census Bureau has conducted content tests to research and improve the design and function of different questions, including questions on race and ethnicity.
In this article. Babies are born with a full visual capacity to see objects and colors. However, newborns are extremely nearsighted (far away objects are blurry): 1  Newborns can see objects about 8-15 inches away quite sharply. 2  Newborns prefer to look at faces over other shapes and objects and at round shapes with light and dark borders (such as your adoring eyes).
Your baby can see from birth, but her vision is quite blurry at first. Her sight will develop gradually over her first year (NHS 2013a) . By the time your baby is a year old, she'll see the world almost as well as you do (Sheridan 2008) . As your baby grows, her eyes will take in huge amounts of information about the world around her. Her developing eyesight will help her learn to grasp, sit, roll over, crawl, and walk.