Smiling

Is your baby smiling yet? I feel like mine started smiling last week at 6 weeks and now at 7 weeks he's not. I'm trying my hardest but maybe I'm not as funny as I thought 😂
How are you getting your baby to smile? And how often are they smiling?

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Same I feel like my girl had a few smiles and coo’s last week and now she’s 🤨. The only time this week she’s looked remotely happy is when I’ve changed her bum and she’s still laying on the mat I use that time to be silly and she’ll give a half smile but nothing compared to last week lol! (She’s 7wks tomorrow). Might just be exhausted from the growth spurt week

Honestly same, my little boy (7 weeks) has started to give the occasional smile or smirk but nothing substantial- honestly started to think he must be really unhappy 🙃😂 but I’ve been reassured by many people that it’s totally normal and the few smirks or smiles I’m getting is actually normal and they will just keep increasing as the days/weeks go on, here’s hoping!

Mine is super smiley! I find smiling (mouth open seems to work best) triggers mine to smile. We also sing to him and for some reason super high pitched voices seem to make him smile and giggle too

Mines the same, tiny smirk but nothing substantial. 7 weeks too. Will be 8 on sunday x

My son has started doing some early smiles. He is 1 month today so it's really early but they are definitely proper smiles as opposed to gassy ones as he is fully focussed on you and giving a proper gummy smile. It is not consistent, i.e. cannot always replicate it yet by doing the same thing another moment/day but he has started smiling at moments when doing funny voices, lots of kisses, blowing raspberries/tickling him

With my first baby I found that they do this. They learn one thing..then they stop that and concentrate on the next thing . The smiles will come back!

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Changing the midwife or not?

Hello!
I am having my 1st baby, so of course i don't have much experience with midwives and i don't know what's ok and what's not.
My current midwife is on holiday and i had 2 appointments with another midwife and i noticed a few inconsistencies in behaviour.
1st (probably not very important) my midwife (L) would not note anything down in my booklet. I thought i was supposed to do it, but i was being lazy and didn't fill anything in and midwife S was a bit surprised that it's empty, and the said that midwives normally do it.
2nd - on my 1st appt with S she measured my belly. And she said how i am now within parameters because on my last appt i was under. Which was weird fort me as i could not, for the love of god, remember L measuring my belly. I would remember something like that. So to me it looked like she just put a number there to make it look like she did. I didn't say anything, just thought maybe i completely forgot this happening..
3rd- L wouldn't even try, on my 1st appt to take blood from me, just straight off sent me to the hospital because i seemed to have difficult veins... S managed to do it straight away, and i didn't even know she was going to do it, and i didn't have enough water to make it easy for her, but managed anyway. Twice.
4th- on my 2nd appt i let L know that i found out my dad has diabetes, recently diagnosed. Mentioned it as i thought might be relevant but she didn't say anything ab it. And on my last app with S, i told her how i had a private scan (just bc i wanted to see the baby in 4d) and the person said that the baby seems a bit on the big size and he would recommend testing for GD. S said that they don't normally test for gd just bc a private scan said so. And asked ab my history, and referred me for a glucose test just because of my father having diabetes. And told her how i told L ab it, but apparently there is no note of this. And this test is done between 24-28 weeks and i am 31. It might be nothing, but it just doesn't feel right.

So now i feel a bit weird ab L. Feels like she is missing stuff. Now i don't know if she always told me everything she should. I don't know if i missed out on stuff.
Would you voice these concerns and chage the midwife?
Or am i exaggerating and should turn a blind eye?
Also - this is something i wouldn't know - is the midwife that you sew on these appointments the same midwife you'll have with you during birth? Because knowing that she is not on top of things during the appointments, would make me quite uncomfortable during the birth.
But if i would have a different midwife during the birth, then i might aswell turn a blind eye as i only have a few appointments left with her until the birth.
What do you think?

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