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Your Baby's First Giggle

Delighting in Baby's First Laugh

By Shannon McKelden

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Her younger son was a different story. "He started smiling way before [his brother] could, right around 2 or 2 1/2 months," McCormick-Kovacich says. "People insisted it had to be gas (of course) till I tickled his tummy [and] he squirmed and had a big toothless smile. Even the [pediatrician] was impressed. So I was not surprised at all when at 4 months, he had a kind of gurgle laugh. By the time he was 5 months, he was laughing so much, people asked to tape his laugh because it was so uplifting!"

"A baby will generally reserve her best laugh for those she's most bonded to – Mom and Dad," Dr. Sharif says. So enjoy!

No Laughs?

"One thing we need to keep in mind as we look at infant developmental milestones is that all infants are different and reach the various stages at different times," says Dr. Segal, a pediatrician at Children's Wellness Center, Northside Hospital in Atlanta.

Here are a couple of red flags that signal it's time for parents to seek advice from their pediatrician:

  • If Baby does not have any big smiles or joyful expressions by 6 months of age.
  • If there is no back and forth sharing of sounds, smiles, laughing, etc., between Baby and parents by 9 months of age.

Dr. Segal says that delay in these social milestones may signify a problem with vision, hearing or with the infant's emotional or intellectual development.

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