Question #1: Is your baby making "aaah" noises like they are talking to you?

Q#2: Is he/she smiling? When did they start?

Sophie is always making aaaah noises like she is talking to us. And she smiles but I'm not completely sure if it's real smiles or wind. Abby smiled from 5 weeks but I was sure she was smiling. This time I have no idea.

Yeah, Hannah is quite the little conversationalist. :) And she smiles at me A LOT. [massofsmilies]

I know Abby was laughing at 7 weeks old :shock: and I don't think Sophie will be doing that in the next 2 weeks.
I think I am worrying about her development too much. I keep worrying that she can't see properly or something. She doesn't seem to be smiling when I smile at her and her eyes just seem to be staring into space.. not really focusing on anything. And her pupils are always small. Is that normal? I thought they were meant to go bigger and smaller. How do you test that?
When the doctor shined a light in her eyes when we took her there with her cold, she didn't cry or try to close her eyes. I thought when you shined a bright light in their eyes it makes them close their eyes or turn away?

Ok I'll stop worrying LOL I'm just one paranoid mummy right now. :roll:

Erik just came alive in the last 2 weeks. He really didn't smile much until 10 weeks. Just a few random smiles. But now at 12 weeks he talks with us and smiles. This was much later than Ben. And Erik is not giggling yet.

It is interesting because Ben was very smiley early on but in general a much more high needs baby. He was either very very happy or very very unhappy no inbetweeny. Erik is very calm baby he doesn't cry much but he does hand out the smiles like his brother either. I was worried about it at first but my SIL reminded me that her now very happy toddler was a very sober baby and it is likely personality not development that is causing the difference between my two little ones.

Isn't amazing how different each little one is?

Yeah I was thinking maybe it was that. Tonight she seemed to be watching her daddy and Abby playing together. And her pupils were bigger. So I'm thinking her eyesight is fine.

Matilda is 4 weeks old on Monday and I am sure she smiled at me last night - more than just wind. She did it twice but I think it was more she was copying my expression than knowingly smiling as such - I did speak to my health nurse about this and she said it is truly possible she's already copying my facial expressions.

She has tried a few times to make sounds, but mostly she still grunts, makes little throat noises, although when she's really hungry and she drinks she makes this "Ugg... ugg...ugg" sound as she sucks LOL

She also makes this "agrr agrr agrr" noise when she's hungry LOL

she also has a favourite object on her cot gym that she tries to turn but shes more miss than hit so far.

Sophie smiled at Abby today! :D And I know it was definitely a smile, not wind. :D

It's so cute isn't it? You can so tell the difference between a wind face and a true smile.

Joshua is almost 3 weeks... and he only smiles when he's completely relaxed and sleeping- and I know it's only farting smiles... I like to think that he's dreaming of me. He has begun to make a ah sound when alert and awake and in a good mood. Otherwise, he makes his grunting-feed me sounds when rooting.

Hey Sophie also sticks her hands into her mouth and sucks on them when she is hungry LOL

Hannah did that a lot too, especially in the first week of life! Hubby and I call it "fist in mouth syndrome." [rofl]

LOL Yeah she's been doing it since she was born too. But she can see better now so she does it all the time.