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Familiar / unfamiliar faces

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My husband and I both get the Similac emails and while we don't take them to heart, it's a quick read on potential developmental milestones each month.  This month's email talked about your baby starting to recognize familiar and unfamiliar faces.  Both my DH and I read the email independently and talked about it later, saying, "Psh-shaw, that's not our kid.  He goes to anyone."  Lo and behold, at this weekend's cookout, our LO's face just crumpled as he was passed to people he didn't know.  He would immediately calm down if passed to someone he did know.  DH and I were totally wide-eyed!

Anyone else seeing the same thing?

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  • kjsmith9kjsmith9 member

    DD sometimes has the shy reaction where she'll bury her face in my shoulder, but otherwise she seems to be a little social butterfly.  She came to visit me during lunch at work, and smiled and cooed at a bunch of people she had never seen!

    A girl I work with was talking about this the other day, because her little girl is a bit older and had points taken off the developmental screen because she doesn't have negative reactions toward strangers (she'll smile at anyone, and let anyone hold her)!  I know attachments are a part of development, but I don't think all kids are necessarily going to have these negative reactions toward people they don't know...

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  • minervacullenminervacullen member

    Yep. Some times she avoids eye contact by look away/burying face/looking down all together. She will almost immediately go to or smile at people she knows. Like yesterday with MIL she has zero issues going to her, going to bed for her, and she ate for her. Now if my dad were to come over, she hasn't seen him since she was about 7 or 8 weeks old, she'd not be happy, at all.

    We went to my old salon and she immediately smiled at my friend who comes over to visit us often. The other ladies were totally jealous. 



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  • LittleFish1LittleFish1 member
    Brought LO to a work event a few weeks back. One of the ladies I work with had just met LO for the first time. Because my arms were occupied pouring some water and we were concerned about both of us over heating since the temp was near 100 and we had been outside for a little bit, I told her to gi ahead and remove her from the car seat. As soon as LO was starting to be lifted out, she started to quiver; her arms and legs shook like she was shivering from being cold ... have NEVER seen that reaction and we tend to let people hold her. As soon as she went into my arms, she was happy and all smiles for my coworker.
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  • kescalerakescalera member
    Definitely. Killian always smiles so big when we pick up his big brother my SS for the weekends but is super serious with new people. He doesn't cry but he tends to just stare with a wrinkled forehead. DH was singing to him in Spanish the other day and he started bawling!
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  • JackiemxoxoJackiemxoxo member
    yea, we had a family reunion this weekend and LO would cry every time my aunt came near but not for anyone else. I think it is cause she was loud and all up in her face though. 

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