The first time you see your baby smile, you will melt. Your heart will have found real love and you will know that this baby will be your whole heart for the rest of your days. When a baby smiles at his mother or father, it is precious, but it is also more important than you might imagine. When your baby smiles at you for the first time, it is essential that you return that smile, You will provide security and emotional well-being!
When a baby is a newborn, it hardly interacts with its parents. She only uses crying to communicate that she has basic needs that must be met and her parents guess what they are. But when he starts smiling, everything changes, he wants to interact with you.
The first smile at the time of gestation or a few days after birth has nothing to do with the social smile. The angelic smile occurs before the social smile and indicates that the baby is well and is happy, this is a reflection. The social smile already has a more active interaction towards parents.
When a baby is awake and is over a month old and smiles, then it is because it shows you that he is happy to see you or that he is innately trying to please you. It is his first communication with the environment, it is a message that he transmits to you, he is socializing for the first time. It is a stimulus that awaits a response (like any communication), and that response is your smile in return.
In this way you can strengthen the emotional bond with your baby and he will learn little by little to communicate with you correctly. Your baby needs to feel safe physically, but also emotionally and one way to do this is through smiling and crying. With crying he communicates his basic needs and his discomforts and with his smile, he communicates that he is happy and comfortable by your side.