Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
As the mother of a newborn currently, I can tell you that those first smiles are precious. Not only because they’re adorable, but because at this point, we’ve spent weeks changing, burping, feeding, and soothing this little person with little other than snuggles as a reward.
A smile? Proof that we’re getting somewhere and that the best is yet to come.So what is super annoying is that literally every time you claim your baby smiled at you, there is always someone there ready to tell you they’re not smiling – it’s only gas or a reflex, or whatever. Buzzkills abound.
Science has backed them up, too, staying that your newborn’s first “social smile” doesn’t typically appear until somewhere between 6 and 12 weeks of age. Newer research, however, suggests that the hopeful and optimistic among us might have been right all along.
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