The baby books say that babies start to social smile at around 6 weeks. I'm not sure if that is 6 weeks after their due date or 6 weeks after birth. Since Miles was born exactly 2 weeks early...that would make a big difference.
Anyways, I haven't seen any social smiles from Miles yet...however if he starts to nod off when I'm talking or coo'ing at him (humph...do you think I bore him already??!) he has started to smile quite a bit lately. Hopefully he'll start smiling while fully alert soon.
I feel badly because with Max I would spend nearly the entire day devoted to him and when he was awake...I would talk or play with him, but poor Miles has to fight with a demanding toddler for attention. I think I'm managing as well as can be to split my time and to meet the needs (maybe not as quickly as they'd like) of both of them though.
I grabbed my camera because I had just finished burping Miles after feeding him and he just laid out like this with his arms out to both sides and it looked so funny to me.
And low and behold...I lucked out and caught a smile on camera finally!!! I was telling him how funny he was and he started to drift off and smiled! What a little nut! Already he has a good sense of humor! He'll need it to survive in this family! :)
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