Smiling
How old are your babies and did they start to smile socially? How frequently? Mine will be 8 weeks in 4 days, started smiling a week ago, its very rare maybe once or twice a day after a lot of encouragement, should I be concerned?
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About 5 weeks old but it still isn’t consistent which am not worried about x
Mine started around 4 weeks old, now she's 6 weeks and she smiles a lot, by herself (a couple of times she laughed while sleeping, which was sweet) or in reaction to me saying hello or cuddling her. But as far as I read it can happen any time between 4 to 8 weeks, and as long as they smile it shouldn't matter if they do it a lot or not. I guess it is more important to see if they do it in response to an input.
My little girl is 8 weeks tomorrow and she does it a few times a day sometimes less but it’s not consistent yet Xx
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