Editing Blinking (section)

===Children===
Infants do not blink at the same rate of adults; in fact, infants only blink at an average rate of one or two times in a minute.<ref>Zametkin, Alan J., Janice R. Stevens, and Richard Pittman (1979). "Ontogeny of spontaneous blinking and of habituation of the blink reflex." ''Annals of Neurology: Official Journal of the American Neurological Association and the Child Neurology Society'' 5.5 (1979): 453-457. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410050509</ref><ref>Val Danilov I, Mihailova S. (2025). "Reflexes and Shared Intentionality in the Origins of Emotions Development: A Scoping Review of Studies on Blinking in Infants". ''OBM Neurobiology'' 2025; 9(1): 263; https://doi:10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2501263.</ref> The reason for this difference is unknown, but it is suggested that infants do not require the same amount of eye lubrication that adults do because their eyelid opening is smaller in relation to adults. Additionally, infants do not produce [[tears]] during their first month of life. Infants also get a significant amount more sleep than adults do and, as discussed earlier, fatigued eyes blink more. However, throughout childhood the blink rate increases, and by adolescence, it is usually equivalent to that of adults.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/30/the_odd_body_blinking/|title=Why do babies blink less often than adults?|date=30 June 2006|first=Stephen|last=Juan|website=[[The Register]]}}</ref>