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What age can I have prints taken?
What age is it suitable to have fingerprints taken? Is my teenage child too old to have prints done? Is there a maximum age?
How are fingerprints made?
The pattern of your baby’s fingerprint is called a friction ridge and the shape is decided based on several things..... • Your baby’s position in the womb• The density of the amniotic fluid • How active your baby is in your tummy • Oxygen levels in the blood• Your baby touching the walls of the sac This is why identical twins will have different fingerprints as they will have a different experience inside the womb. The odds of someone else having the same fingerprint is 1 in 64 billion but, seeing as the world’s population is only...
When does your baby grow fingerprints?
Imagine your baby before it is born, growing in your tummy🤰. Each day it grows more and more. It’s an exhausting job, this growing. That’s why he or she regularly needs sleep and quiet time 😴 One day though they will start to grow fingerprints; a pattern of ridges, arches, whorls, and loops. A pattern that is so unique that no one else in the world will match it - that’s 1 in 7.7 billion people - amazing, huh? Clever, that baby of yours! This amazing process begins as early as 2-3 months old, when they are still in your tummy, and...
How rare is your print?
Is your fingerprint rare? Look at your fingerprints ✋ what pattern do they make? There are 3 distinct patterns - whorls, arches and loops. Which one are you? COMMENT below. 65% of us will fall into the loops category so sorry peeps but we are pretty common - you are 1 of 5 billion people. 30% of us will have whorls - my most favourite pattern to fingerprint. You are 1 of 2.3 billion people. And 5% of us will have arches - YOU are the rare ones! Although that’s still 350 million of you 🤣 Which shape are you?