Smiling and Drooling

This week baby Lucas started smiling and drooling. Wait a minute, don't babies drool from the very beginning? That is why they have a bib right? Well, baby Lucas wears the bib because he usually vomits some milk within a half hour after eating. It's probably because the milk hasn't made it all the way down the stomach yet. Burping helps.

Baby Lucas started rubbing his hands on his mouth getting his hand and face all wet. Soon after we notice this self soothing motion of what appears to be sucking his hand, he started drooling. This could be the beginning stages of teething. A few days after the drooling, he started making bubbles with his drool. How fun.



If you have seen pictures of baby Lucas, you probably seen some with him smiling. Did you notice his eyes closed for those pictures. This is just a muscle reflex. Somewhere in the second week we notice baby Lucas smiling in his sleep but never smiling while awake. Well last week we started seeing his smile with his eyes open.