Development calendar: 2nd month

• First Smile
• Baby kicks and turns to sound source
• Healthy hearing: a base for speaking

Your baby is becoming more active. She sees objects and hears sounds more clearly. Soon there will be a smile for you.

A special event awaits you from the second month: your baby will probably smile at you for the first time.

First Smile

You may have seen your baby smile before. They call it the angel’s smile, in the first few weeks of life is a reflex that usually occurs during sleep. However, by the second or third month, your baby is already smiling at you anyway.

At the beginning your baby will make contact with you through crying or clinging. Later that behavior becomes more complex due to increasing motor skills. If your baby cries mainly when she needs you, she will later crawl towards you or stretch out her hands when she wants to be close to you and needs comfort.

In the beginning, she sees only one large shape and focus more at the chin, hairline or eyes.

Right now the baby does all these signs to everyone who cares for her. Later she might focus on only mom or dad. She recognizes faces in her surroundings better and better.

Baby kicks and turns to sound source

Over time, your baby becomes more active. She flatters with her arms and legs, she opens her hands, which until now have mostly been clenched into fists.

Sometimes she feels her own body more or less by accident: she brings her hands together or touches her little feet. You should let your baby kick as much as possible. Do not constantly put her in the baby seat or wrap her up tightly.

Your baby may be able to hold and shake light toys. She might be able to lift her head if you place her lying on her stomach.

She’ll see images and sounds more and more clearly. She likes to look at colorful objects, for example a mobile and turn her little head in the direction of an interesting source of noise. So interesting that she’s trying to get information. This turning reaction also shows that the connection between seeing and hearing works.

Healthy hearing: a base for speaking

The pediatrician checks whether your baby can hear with both ears.

Already in the hospital they tests this with a newborn hearing test a few days after birth. Because only with well-functioning hearing can your baby later learn to speak without any problems.

Your baby is also beginning to make different sounds.

It chuckles and coos. Suddenly she kind of starts a conversation with you. You can already tell her something or sing with her. At this stage your baby does not sleep as much during the day as she did shortly after birth. The sleep phases at night usually gradually become longer. Hopefully.

Find the first month here.