why do we not remember much details when we are babies

Question: why do we not remember much details when we are babies
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Asked by MooMoo2510 to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 17 Nov 2015.
- Richard Unwin answered on 17 Nov 2015:
  
  Hi moo moo
  
  As babies our brain is not very well developed. It’s busy learning lots of things about being alive, how to move these weird thing called limbs, what it means to be hungry etc. We don’t develop what we would call a detailed memory until probably the age of 3.

jaycee commented on 18 Nov 2015:

if I developed a detailed memory when I was three, then how can I not remember from then?

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423aged23 commented on 18 Nov 2015:

Did you know your short term memory only lasts for 30 seconds so maybe you cannot remember stuff because of that.

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Question: why do we not remember much details when we are babies