when did your baby start smiling/cooing?

[bugley]

my dd starting smiling in response to me at 5 wks but no cooing noises yet (now 7 wks)what's everyone else's experience of this?

[singersgirl]

DS1 started smiling at 5 weeks; DS2 at 2 weeks. Can't remember about cooing.

[LeahE]

Definitely smiling at 5 weeks (with a few "is that a smile?" moments in the week before that). Can't remember cooing -- in fact, not entirely sure what counts as cooing anyway

[coppertop]

Dd started smiling at around 4 weeks. She's now 12 weeks old and has been making little oooh and ahhh noises for about 2 weeks or so, along with little squeaky sounds. :)

I can't remember when my older two did this.

[speedymama]

DT1 smiled at 6 weeks and DT2 at 20 weeks.

[Marne]

DD1 smiled at 5 weeks, dd2 was smiling by 3 weeks and cooing at 5, now at 13 weeks she coo's all day.

[Elibean]

About 5 weeks, with '??smile??' moments the week before. I don't remember cooing either - but I do remember her sticking her tongue out in response to me sticking mine out when she was about8 or 9 weeks old. I was in ecstasy

[Iklboo]

Def smiling around 5 weeks (DH was doing that silly Rolf Harris heavy breathing type thing to him). Can't remember about cooing, but I know now at 7 months he's cooing, a-gooing, and saying "eh" a lot to get our attention

[bodenbetty]

My dd is 5.5 weesk 7 doesn't seem to be showing any sifgns of smiling at all - a few times I thought it might be but seemed to be wind. She seems quite oblivious to me most of the time.Not much focusing on my face though is quite taken with teh sofa.
I'm just a bit worried that its because she hasn't been getting enough of my attention ( also have DS) & because for teh first 4 weeks I found it really hard to bond with her.
i really feel i have now but am wotried that my lack of contact with her in teh early days will have caused this. My HV asked the other day if she was smiling & its panicked me a bit.
we had a long haul trying to concieve her & now I'm just worried that every little thing means ther's something wrong......
can anyone reassure me?

[Mercy]

bodenbetty, don't worry about it, please. All babies are different, as I'm sure parents of more than 2 children will tell you. my ds was also quite taken with the sofa for a while and the recipient of his first coo was a pile of ironing at about 2 am when I was changing his nappy! If you are worried though I'm sure someone on MN can advise/reassure.

dd was about 6 weeks when she first smiled and ds about 4/5 weeks. Cooing, dd about 7/8 weeks and ds around 4 weeks.

I love those gummy wavery grins

[geekgrrl]

smiling at 8 weeks, cooing maybe a few weeks later? No sure.

[justamum]

bodenbetty, don't worry, just keep talking to her and making silly noises etc and keep smiling at her, she'll be fine. my dd is 18weeks now and a real smiler but for about the first 8 weeks we really had to work to get anything out of her that didn't look like serious contemplation of how insane we were.
she did give the odd smile from about 6wks and cooed from about the same time, now she never shuts up. i think my ds smiled around 5 weeks and cooed at about 7/8 weeks

[nappyaddict]

i thought my baby first smiled at 5 weeks but now he is 9 weeks and we haven't seen many smiles at all, so i'm wondering whether i got it wrong and they weren't smiles at all. surely if it was a smile he would be doing it all the time now not just odd occasions?

[Caththerese1973]

Sorry to show off (can't help it) but my baby smiled at only 3 weeks! And it was real smiling, not just wind. Can't remember the cooing thing much. Do remember that when she was 5-6 months old she started occasionally making 'mamammama' noises, as well as some really weird growling sounds. She was a bit late to start talking: didn't say anything much except for 'Mumma' and 'No' (lol) until she was nearly two.

[ghosty]

Bodenbetty - don't worry .... just keep smiling and cooing at her and she will soon get the idea
My children both smiled at exactly 6 weeks. I have no idea about cooing exactly but I have DD on video cooing (with my voice coming from the behind the camera going, "Aaaah, are you going to speak? Aaaah-goooooooo, what a clever girl you are, are you mummy's little angel?" and all that claptrap ... makes you end up turning the sound down [vomit emoticon] ) She was around 10 weeks at the time.