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Catch the smiles they send

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A smile is a tool, not only a lovely moment: smiling gives them another way besides crying to express their needs and exert control over what happens to them. Being engaged with you — your smiles, your voice, the world you carry them through — is what advances a baby's brain development. So there is no wrong moment to answer one, and no quota for it.

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🛡️ On the changing table, one hand stays on baby while you answer — a smile is exactly the moment you would take your eyes off them, and the first roll always comes on a day nobody predicted. Never step away from a raised surface to reply: answer from where you are, or pick them up first.

Sources: AAP — Emotional & Social Development in Babies: Birth Through 3 Months · AAP — Emotional & Social Development in Babies: Birth Through 3 Months

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Catch the smiles they send

A smile counts as being spoken to

Answer a smile wherever it turns up — over the changing table, from the play mat, out of the pram, across the kitchen. No session and no waiting technique here; these are the ones they send you first.