New Born smiling while asleep??

jcf

i notice flashes of a smile on my son (11 days old) when he sleeps ?

is this really a smile or just coincidence ? does it indicate dreaming ?

xzanti

They say it's normally wind in newborns.. but my Son definitely used to smile from a couple of weeks old.. when he heard mine or my partners voices he would beam

NextSteps

I always thought it was dreams, or feeling generally good.

Moonbeam

Caoimhe smiled from day 1:) my big girl didn't smile for a few weeks.

January

People say it's wind but my girls smiled all the time when they were newborns and they weren't always windy!

qwertytlk

Its wind! When i first saw my son doing this i thought he was the most advanced brilliant baby lol. But smiling properly doesn't usually start until their a few weeks old. My son was aroun 3 or 4 weeks i think,
Anyway usually the smiles will be accompanied by flickering of the eyelids, all signs of wind. As are grunting type noises in the sleep.
Personally i found my little guy never had a good sleep if he was doing any of the above and had wind. So i found the best way to get wind up was to lightly bounce him on my knee while rubbing his back. After a few mins it would always come up so it Worked every time for me!
Thank god now at almost 6 months he is able to get most of the wind up himself as it was very bad in the first few 3 months.
Btw its not always wind in their tummy causing the smiles but wind in their bowel -well for my little man anyway, he was / still is awful for this lol

contgrats on the little one:)

WalterMitty

Could be an evolutionary defence mechanism.