Explain how humans have fewer bones as adults then as babies?

for babies, many small bony segments fuse together to form a single bone.

For those of you who don’t know this already, the fact that babies have more bones than adults might come as a big surprise. Your shock is pretty justifiable; if you’ve ever held a baby in your arms, you have probably been amazed at how soft their bodies are. Given that, it seems almost impossible that those small limbs, head, and torso could house more bones than the body of an adult. Adults also tend to feel quite ‘bony’, so this fact is definitely a weird one.