Smile

I am a new mom. My baby girl is 10 weeks old and the last 2 months with her have been a rollercoaster. Like all babies fresh into the outside world, my daughter didn’t really respond to human interaction much in the early weeks and rigorously followed her eat-sleep-poop drill.

Well in between those diaper changes, calm long naps and endless breastfeeding sessions there were occasional inadvertent and involuntary smiles that I found absolutely fascinating. But since the last 2 weeks or so she’s practicing social smiling where she makes deliberate eye contact and throws the cutest smiles. They truly make my heart melt and genuinely make me feel loved.