Your baby's smile is one of the most rewarding times of parenthood, particularly the first. But when are babies smiling? Newly become parents often ask this question ‘when will baby smile?" Learn when your baby is going to smile and what it means for emotional and social growth of a baby.
Trust it or not, probably your baby was smiling long before he was born. In fact, they can smile very early, even in utero. They are reflex smiles that are similar to the jerky movements of the arm and leg of your baby's body as the equipment is tested. Your little cutie will soon, however, deliberately shine him first "real" smile and you're going to have a stupid grin on your face when you are back on your beam.
First Smile and sense development
The first true smile of your baby tells a lot about his development. This is a sign that his vision has improved and that he knows your face. His brain and his nervous system have matured enough for reflective smiles to eliminate, and he now realizes that he can connect with other people by smiling. Your little one is also becoming aware of his feelings and of the people around him. He will smile to express pleasure, enthusiasm, happiness and happiness.
WHEN WILL SMILING BEGIN
The first true smile of your baby will come between one and a half month to three months (or 6-12 weeks) and reflex smile of your baby will go away at the age of 2 months. In general, when a child is sleeping or tired the reflective smile tends to be shorter and occur by chance. On the other hand, real smiles occur as a response, as if they see the face of their mother or hear the voice of a sibling, and they are consistent. When it's the real deal, you see your baby's emotion expressed.
You can do some things that may encourage your child if you are still waiting to see the lips of your baby curling. Talk to him frequently (make sure you give her time to answer), more often make eye contact and smile to him all day long. Get stupid, too. Make funny faces to him, play games like peek-a-boo and intimating animal sound would help him making smile a lot.
WHAT SMILING MILESTONE YOU SHOULD EXPECT
He will do it again and again, once your baby smiles. Why not he? You're lit up with a smile, "ooh" and "ahh", and respond with a smile. He digs that! At first, a mix of vocal and visual stimulation will be your happy face. He can thus enlighten by watching you a favorite lullaby sing or talk with him during change of diaper.
Later on, when his vision improves, it will be sufficient for him to giggle the smile to see the face of his two favorites (you and your partner!). You will be recipients of most of your child's smiles, but he will also share smiles with others (this will take about 6 months to get strange anxieties started). As your baby becomes more fun and fun to see the reactions of the people, it begins to add sound effects. It begins cooing, and then leads to small giggles and giggling waves. Your baby may surprise you with 5 months of full-bodied laughter and excitement.
When your child first smiles, it's worth a million times all the nights of sleeplessness, sickness in the morning, and newborn stress. Nothing is sweeter than the face of a child, lit up with joyful recognition or enjoyment.
Smiling is also a good indication that the growing social abilities of baby are now transforming from a sweet sleeping bump into a healthy, irresistible boy.
HOW TO MAKE BABY SMILE FOR THE FIRST TIME
You can see the baby running a lot of smile-trial, practicing and exploration of his mouth before your baby starts his first full social smile you. His first "true "social smile will most likely take place between 6 and 8 weeks (and not usually before 4 and 6), and most of all will be to recognize a very special person: mom or father. He'll be using his full face, not only his mouth, for a social smile— when you see it you will notice the difference!
IF BABY ISN’T SMILING
Some children smile just like some adults smile faster than others. Don't be alarmed if he isn't smiling and is of one month. This initial "real" smile can appear frustratingly elusive as even some of the happiest babies are aged between 4 weeks and 4 months. You may have heard that an early indicator of autism spectrum disorder is an early delay in smiling. And while this is true, the only sign a child will show on the autism spectrum is very seldom a delay in smiling.

She may not be a smiley personality, at least not at this early stage of her development, if your child has not smiled 4 months but rather vociferates, contacts her eyes and reacts to your verbal and visual questions. Talk to your pediatrician about any concerns you have. Anyhow, it’s a happiest thing in the world to see your baby smiling first time. Perhaps it’s the best and only worthy thing for a mother in the world. Keep smiling and keep laughing with your baby as it’s the remedy of all pain and stress that you have gone through.