Happy Baby! How Smiles Develop

my babay smiles at the sounds of the familliar voices she hear throughout the hpuse. Yes, there were reflex smiles, but there is a big difference between the reflex smiles and the genuine smiles. The genuine smiles are done with eye contact with baby searching for your voice, and once found, baby immediately smiles and giggles from excitement. All babies born in this era are more advance than ten years ago. they'll be even more advanced as the years roll by

My son is almost 7 weeks and smiles and laughs. He smiles when he sees me, his dad and when his sisters get home from school. We don't have to smile at him to have him give a big toothless grin to us. I think there's a lot even pediatricians don't know about babies...

my daughter was smiling at 5 weeks. When we went to see her dad off for deployment, she would smile at him every time he would talk to her or walk into the room. I've seen the reflex smile, and this one was different.

I don't agree with this pediatrician at all. My 7 wk old clearly knows when I come home from work after not being there all day. He will turn to see where my voice is coming from. Once he sees me smiling at him, he's all mushy and giggles and grins. Either this pediatrician hasn't had kids of her own and experienced falling in love every day with the light of a baby's smile, or she needs to go back to school...