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Weak in the Knees

  • February 24, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Babies don’t have kneecaps — at least, not the bony kind that older kids and adults have. At birth, human kneecaps are still cartilage (soft connective tissue) and they don’t start to harden until sometime between ages three and five.

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