There are looks so powerful that they are capable of changing your life forever. Loving gazes that make time stop for endless seconds. But I’m not talking about the way a partner can look at you, but your children. Those of us who have had our babies for a few months in our arms have been able to delight ourselves with the most beautiful and pure look that someone can give us: the first look of love from your baby .
You know what I mean, right? If you have experienced them you will know it perfectly and if you have not yet had the privilege, get ready because it is a moment of fulfillment that will remain forever in your memory. It is that exact moment in which you feel that your baby already recognizes you and although he still does not know how to speak, he tells you through his eyes that he is dead of love for you . That you, mom or dad, are everything in their little world . Could there be something more precious?
A very special connection
The baby sees from birth, but still does not see very well, so it is also guided by hearing and smell. At birth, the first connection is purely instinctive, to such an extent that if the newborn is placed on its mother’s womb, it is able to crawl up to her breast guided by instinct.
It is no coincidence that the best distance to address your baby is between 8 and 12 inches . It is the perfect focus distance of the newborn and it is precisely the distance between the face of the mother or father when feeding or cradling him in arms, as if it were designed to be in the arms for as long as possible, which is where better is a newborn.
But there comes a day, around two months of life, in which a very special connection with your baby occurs. A moment of spark that should have a name and does not. The day when he not only sees you, but looks at you differently and it is something you only know if you are a mother or father. You realize that your baby recognizes and loves you .
They are just a few seconds of looking at him, that he looks at you and knows that he contemplates you with love. Your baby talks to you with his eyes: he tells you that you are everything to him, he tells you that he is in love with you .
Those caresses and the first smile
That first look of love usually coincides with two moments of connection that are also unforgettable in the baby’s first months : when he gives you his first caresses and his first smile.
When breastfeeding or bottle feeding your baby, you can focus on his perfect distance. He is calm, the external stimuli are reduced and he is only focused on your face. You look at him, he looks at you, you know that he recognizes you and extends his hand to caress you. There are no words to describe what it feels like.
Also in this stage of first socialization, between the fourth and sixth week of life, is when your baby gives you his first smile. His first social smile in response to a stimulus from the father or mother, the first two-way communication between the parents and the baby.
That first look of love from your baby is one of the most beautiful moments that we can live as parents, when your child, just a few months old, looks at you in love. Do you remember it?
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