when will a baby laugh?
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Laughing may occur as early as 12 weeks of age and increase in frequency and intensity in the first year. At around 5 months, babies may laugh and enjoy making others laugh.
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Around this time, your baby will start to hear — it may hear muted sounds from the outside world, and any noises your digestive system makes, as well as the sound of your voice and heart. The eyes also start to become sensitive to light.
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You should start to feel your baby move between around 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. If this is your first baby, you might not feel movements until after 20 weeks. If you have not felt your baby move by 24 weeks, tell your midwife.
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Typically, babies start smiling between 6 and 12 weeks, but you may notice a smile or smirk soon after baby's born. These early smiles are called “reflex smiles.” Babies start reflex smiling before birth and continue to do so as newborns.
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You might feel your baby move for the first time when you're around 17 or 18 weeks pregnant. Most first-time mums notice the first movements when they're between 18 and 20 weeks pregnant. At first, you feel a fluttering or bubbling, or a very slight shifting movement.
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Laughter is a wonderful milestone to reach. Laughter is a way your baby communicates that you can understand. It's a sign that your baby is alert, intrigued, and happy. Read on to learn about the average timeline for babies to start laughing and what you can do if they miss this milestone.
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20 to 24 weeks - At first you might feel a gentle flutter in your stomach. This is known as 'quickening' and is the first sign your baby is beginning to move. If this is your first pregnancy, it's easy to mistake your baby kicking for gas, as baby kicks can sometimes feel like small bubbles inside your tummy.
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Ears forward. Around 18 weeks, your baby's ears will begin to stand out from of the sides of the head and may even begin to register sounds. Gall bladder go-ahead. Your baby will need bile to digest nutrients, and at 18 weeks, the gall bladder may begin to work.
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By 2 weeks, Baby might start to recognize her caregivers' faces. She will focus on your face for a few seconds as you smile and play with her. Just remember to stay within her field of vision: it's still around 8-12 inches.
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Baby flutters during early pregnancy You'll likely start to feel your baby moving around sometime between weeks 18 and 20 of your pregnancy. First-time moms may not feel baby move until closer to 25 weeks.
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About 6 Months: Undiscriminating Smile While all babies develop at their own pace -- and some babies are just a lot more smiley than others -- midway into your child's first year, she'll most likely be a smiling expert. "Six-month-old babies grin at you no matter what you do," says Dr. Cowan.
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By around 8 weeks of age, most babies can easily focus on their parents' faces. Around 3 months, your baby's eyes should be following things around. If you waggle a brightly colored toy near your baby, you should be able to see their eyes tracking its movements and their hands reaching to grab it.
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Cooing. To start with, your baby will still use crying as their main means of communicating with you, but will then start to extend his range of sounds. This is when your baby starts to make 'cooing' noises which develop alongside crying.
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You should feel your baby's first movements, called "quickening," between weeks 16 and 25 of your pregnancy. If this is your first pregnancy, you may not feel your baby move until closer to 25 weeks. By the second pregnancy, some women start to feel movements as early as 13 weeks.
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When to expect hiccups You may start to notice fetal hiccups in your second or third trimester. Many moms start to feel these “jerky motions” in their sixth month of pregnancy. But like fetal movement, everyone starts to feel them at a different time. Some babies get the hiccups several times a day.
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What does my baby look like in week 18? When your baby is born, you may hear about using white noise to help them sleep. The reason this is such a great trick is because they're used to noise - the womb is far from silent. At 18 weeks they can hear sounds all around them and might even respond to music or a loud noise.
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Sometime between 18 and 22 weeks of pregnancy, you will start to feel your baby move. At first, these small movements feel like fluttering or "butterflies." Some women say that they feel like gas bubbles. These first flutters are sometimes called "quickening."