The first smile of the native kid gives to parents joy and feeling of long-awaited emotional return. Therefore young mothers quite often look for the answer to a question at what age babies begin to smile?
At what age do babies begin to smile?
Certainly, all children develop at individual speed. However it is considered norm when the baby began to smile at the age of 6-8 weeks. However some children smile in 4 weeks, and others begin only by third month. It is absolutely normal, all people have different temperament and character: some and there is a wish to call "ulybakam", and others are more similar to a beech, hesitate or do not see a reason for smiles.
Of time of mummy it is proud tell how their child in maternity hospital began to shine smiles. However it is the truth only partly: the smile of newborns is only a reflex phenomenon, and it does not express usually any positive emotion, it is not conscious yet. At the same time newborns will not smile if something disturbs them, and the face of recently been born baby which blurred in a half-smile – a signal that to the kid it is comfortable and quiet, he is full and happy.
How to define that the kid began to smile consciously?
It is possible to make it rather simply. The conscious smile of the baby usually is followed by joyful "dryganye" legs and hands, friendly exclamations, a stare in eyes. The kid most often gives the very first smile to mom who day and night usually is nearby. He is already able to learn its smell and a voice unmistakably among thousands of others. However you should not be surprised if the child smiles to everyone at the beginning – and the, and others. It is normal, and the similar situation will proceed approximately about half a year. After six months children usually cease to smile openly to foreign people and with smaller hunting go on hands to strangers to "uncles and aunts".
Whether it is possible to help the child to learn to smile?
Yes, you may. There are several simple councils in this respect. For example, it is possible to take the kid on hands, to begin to talk, sing tenderly with him to him a melodious song and at the same time to smile broadly. At the age of one and a half months the babies already show the aspiration to resemble surrounding people, and for certain the baby will begin to imitate the adult, will try to smile. Psychologists recommend to mothers to give as often as possible smiles to the remains that those felt in the conditions of goodwill, friendliness, felt the necessity in this world. Constant exchange of smiles of dad and especially mothers with the kid is a catalyst of healthy emotional and mental development of the child.