[tri-med] Re: still not smiling???

I feel your pain.  And we haven't been through near the ordeal you have. 
(((Irene)))

Claire has smiled once -- and seemed to mean it.  At Christmas-time, we 
were visiting her Grandma and as I held her, she looked up from my lap and 
saw her Grandma attentively smiling at her, waiting to hold her.  Claire 
gave her a big grin... as true of a smile as could be.

Since then, only a smirk or two...  and just as serious as can be all the 
time... we get an eyebrow 'furl' when we try to be silly to get her to 
smile... as if it is just beneath her to smile for us... too proper for a baby.

Patience... my motto these days.  I think as our babies grow, they will 
interact more... just gotta keep smiling at them, even when they give you a 
look like "What the..!!??"

Debbie, mom to Baby Claire (full T18 and 10 months old)
http://www.debbwebb.com/Claire/

At 09:34 AM 1/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>   OK, I have MORE questions for you all!  My Caroline is still not 
> smiling at 7 months.  Now granted, she has really had a hard time over 
> her 7 months and has had only very few periods of time of actually 
> feeling OK, but I thought we'd see some smiles by now!  She did seem to 
> start to smile at about 5 months, and I had other people agree she was 
> smiling, but she then started not to feel good again and that was the end 
> of the smiling attempts.
>   She had her Nissen surgery and g-tube last week and I think she is 
> feeling better now.  I hope we are on the road to better things.
>
>   Anyway, it is hard to have a sick baby who still hasn't been able to 
> really react with us.  I am just fearful that she will never smile - 
> although I can't imagine that!
>
>   So my question is has anyone had a REALLY delayed baby in regards to 
> reacting with other who went on to finally smile and laugh?  She does 
> also have trouble making eye contact, but does look at us and things such 
> as a mobile, just not for long periods of time.  That is hard to deal 
> with as well.
>
>   I just pray that she will finally recover from her many many health 
> problems and go on to be such a happy baby.  It is really hard dealing 
> with all the ongoing medical issues.  All I ask is for a baby who will 
> finally act like she knows and loves us!!!!!  I don't even care anymore 
> about the physical and mental delays at all!!!
>
>   Irene
>   (Christina - 27 months and Caroline - 7 months with partial trisomy 17p)
>   http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/c/carolinerochelle
>
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