Social Smiling at 4 weeks??

[miss_honeyb]

I always thought "social", responsive smiling didn't happen until like 6 weeks or later, but I swear that's what I got last Thursday, DD's 4 week "birthday"!

She was wide awake and alert, making these funny faces and doing this thing with her tongue that cracks me up! She watched me laughing for a couple seconds and then broke into a huge, open-mouth grin! She did it a couple times, always watching me and seemingly responding to me. Can this happen at four weeks?! Any one else experience social smiling this early? I don't remember it with my other kids.

[firewoman]

My baby did this at the tail end of her fourth week, so I'd say it is entirely possible that yours could be smiling and sticking out her tongue at the beginning of the fourth week! She is just ready to engage. Maybe she is a little social butterfly.

[Serenyd]

I'm jealous, I wish mine was smiling alrealdy!

[Norasmomma]

I actually think both my babes have smiled to me around 2 weeks, but DS really started around 5 weeks to smile at everyone. Maybe we are just a smiley family

[kawa kamuri]

my daughter was socially smiling at three weeks. she's five weeks now and a huge smiler

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y25...621_463853.jpg

[jaylily]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri

my daughter was socially smiling at three weeks. she's five weeks now and a huge smiler

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y25...621_463853.jpg

Awww! So cute!

We have that same sleeper!!

[boobs4milk]

we got our first real smile at 4 wks exactly. she lol'ed about 2 days later!

[Nature]

dd smiled at 2 weeks. Very clearly at us! She also laughed a real laugh a few days later. I'd always heard they don't socially smile til later too, but there is no doubt thats what she did.

[Therese's Mommy]

Veronica is a month and has been smiling for a while. For some reason she loves laying on the changing table; we seem to get the most smiles there. Last night I was blowing her hair and it was making her smile. Then she seemed to really look at me and saw my face and anticipate I was going to blow so she started smiling before I did it! The older girls loved it.

[pjs]

My 3 week old has definitely smiled AT me a few times. I'll agree that his smiles while sleeping may be gas, but not these ones!

[tayndrewsmama]

Originally Posted by Nature

dd smiled at 2 weeks. Very clearly at us! She also laughed a real laugh a few days later. I'd always heard they don't socially smile til later too, but there is no doubt thats what she did.

Same here! I am pretty sure my other two didn't do either this early, but we are certain that is what Ashton is doing now. No doubt. His gas does not make him smile at all. He's a huge grunter.

[AuntieLiz]

DS gave me his first genuine, eye-contact, responsive/social smile at 3 weeks. It took me another full week to catch it on camera, though.

[miss_honeyb]

Wow, I'm impressed with all the responsive, smiley babies! Has anyone read "Your Amazing Newborn"? It's incredible what brand new babies are aware of and capable of doing! They're not totally oblivious to everything for the first month, as some would have us believe.

[Aufilia]

DS's first verified smile was right at 4 weeks. Before that we saw smiles but I was never 100% sure they weren't just gas. But at 4 weeks he smiled at Daddy and said "Coooo!"

[fyrebloom]

My boys have both been early smilers. We started getting them at 2-3 weeks with this lil guy and at 5 weeks we got our first "goo".

[miss_honeyb]

I'm just starting to get "goo's" at about 5 weeks (although DD1 swears the baby has been cooing at her almost since birth.)