Smiles

My 9 week old baby is so serious and has literally smiled once ever so slightly, is anyone else’s baby like this?

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I had to work hard to get my little one to smile when she first started. Singing to her the same line from the same song repeatedly made her laugh and she also finds a painting in our living room very funny (it’s of women’s bums, but not sure a baby would actually know this, pure coincidence😂). You might need to find what their niche is and what makes them laugh and keep repeating it to see if that’s what makes them smile!

It took my girl about 6 weeks for the odd smile and now she smiles and laughs daily. Mainly at the lamp or lights? I think they copy expressions the first 3 months so I do big smiles and laughs each morning or wake times and she usually copies me. You may just have a serious baby though!

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