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At what age did your baby learn to smile?

less than 4 weeks old

29%

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4 weeks

20%

[ 20 ]

5 weeks

13%

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6 weeks

17%

[ 17 ]

7 weeks

[ 6 ]

8 weeks

[ 8 ]

after 8 weeks

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Total Votes : 99

the world's best mom

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 2:10 pm

At what age did your baby learn to smile? Just wondering what is average, and how common it is to start late.

LiLIsraeli

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 2:11 pm

My earliest one was at 4 weeks exactly; the others were somewhere around 5-7 weeks.

Iymnok

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 2:30 pm

9-12 unless you include the relaxed newborn twitch of a smile.

FranticFrummie

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 2:42 pm

It depends on how you define "smile".

DD was always very amused with herself, and smiled often and early, but for no real reason that I could discern.

At 3 months exactly, I got her first total eye contact, directed right at me, great big grin. Very Happy

I'll never forget it! From then on, she was very interactive, with lots of smiles and giggles that were social, and not just from gas, etc.

tweety1

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 3:07 pm

My babies were all overdue. My babies that were overdue 7 days or more smiled within 48 hours. No I'm not imagining. My last baby I have a pic where he's very up and alert and gave me this huge yummy smile 14 hrs after birth.

the world's best mom

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 4:03 pm

tweety1 wrote:

That's gas, not a real smile.

If I remember correctly, my first 4 kids started at 4 weeks. Now my little one just smiled 7 times today, at 6 weeks old. I thought he was late, but I guess not.

potatoes

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 4:06 pm

My baby was real early, 2.5 weeks. No not gas, obvious response of a smile. It happened at the dr office at 3 weeks old, he was like "is that a 3 week old smiling at me?!?"

yksraya

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 4:07 pm

My kids smiled right away, dd at day one and the others at abt day three. And it wasn't gas as my babies bh weren't gassy. It was a soft smile.
a big smile with opened mouth they did at a few wks old, abt 3-6 wks

yidisheh mama

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 8:56 pm

three weeks

amother

Indigo

Thu, Nov 19 2015, 11:56 pm

I've had babies who smiled immediately, and some who smiled at 4-6 weeks.

amother

Lilac

Sun, Nov 22 2015, 4:56 am

the world's best mom wrote:

That's gas, not a real smile.

If I remember correctly, my first 4 kids started at 4 weeks. Now my little one just smiled 7 times today, at 6 weeks old. I thought he was late, but I guess not.

Not true. My babies all smile at 10 days - 2 weeks, and it is a social smile. It is not random, it is in response to Mommy or other appropriate stimulus. And they keep on doing it from that point. And I have a bunch of kids KE"H and can say it about all of them.

amother

Honeydew

Sun, Nov 22 2015, 8:09 am

the world's best mom wrote:

That's gas, not a real smile.

If I remember correctly, my first 4 kids started at 4 weeks. Now my little one just smiled 7 times today, at 6 weeks old. I thought he was late, but I guess not.

I would have agreed with you, but my second gave my MIL a huge grin, repeatedly at just over 2 weeks. I didn't believe her until I saw it- a huge gummy grin, with eye contact, in response to her cooing/talking to him!
I had thought my first was early at 4 weeks but this guy is the smiliest baby ever!

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Nov 22 2015, 1:23 pm

amother wrote:

Ditto.

amother

Ivory

Sun, Nov 22 2015, 3:35 pm

My 6.5 week old didn't smile yet, and doesn't respond when I talk to him. And doesn't make eye contact yet. My older kids smiled at about 4 weeks.

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